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Computerworld Operating Systems Oct 21, 2016 Bankers plan to give Corda blockchain code to Hyperledger project Corda, a distributed ledger platform developed by a finance industry consortium, will go open source next month when its developers donate the code to the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Project. 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