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Hyperledger

Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, originally hosted under the Linux Foundation and now stewarded by LF Decentralized Trust. It hosts enterprise-grade blockchain frameworks including Fabric, Besu, Indy, Iroha, and Cacti, along with tools like Firefly and Caliper for blockchain development, identity, and operations.

Hyperledger publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Eth API. Tagged areas include Blockchain, Distributed Ledger, Enterprise, Linux Foundation, and Smart Contracts.

The Hyperledger catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Hyperledger’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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40.4/100 thin ▼ -5.6 Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
5 APIs
BlockchainDistributed LedgerEnterpriseLinux FoundationSmart Contracts

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 40.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Hyperledger Fabric API

Hyperledger Fabric is a permissioned distributed ledger platform. Programmatic access is provided via the Fabric Gateway, peer gRPC APIs, and SDKs for chaincode invocation, ledg...

Hyperledger FireFly API

Hyperledger FireFly is a multiparty system orchestration framework providing REST APIs for tokens, messages, identities, contracts, and events across multiple blockchain protocols.

Hyperledger Indy API

Hyperledger Indy provides tools, libraries, and reusable components for decentralized identities rooted on blockchains. APIs are exposed via the Indy SDK and Indy Node REST endp...

Hyperledger Cacti API

Hyperledger Cacti (formerly Cactus) is a pluggable enterprise-grade framework for cross-chain transactions, providing connector plugins and REST APIs for interoperability across...

Hyperledger Eth API

Standard Ethereum JSON-RPC methods.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Hyperledger Besu JSON-RPC API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Hyperledger Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Hyperledger Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Hyperledger Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Hyperledger API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

JsonRpcRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JsonRpcResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Hyperledger Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Hyperledger Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Hyperledger Agentic Access

1 operation · 1 acting

1 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg
GitHubOrg
 LFDTGitHub
LFDTGitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 LFDecentralizedTrust
LFDecentralizedTrust

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Wiki
Wiki

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: hyperledger
name: Hyperledger
description: Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies,
  originally hosted under the Linux Foundation and now stewarded by LF Decentralized Trust. It hosts enterprise-grade blockchain
  frameworks including Fabric, Besu, Indy, Iroha, and Cacti, along with tools like Firefly and Caliper for blockchain development,
  identity, and operations.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/hyperledger.png
tags:
- Blockchain
- Distributed Ledger
- Enterprise
- Linux Foundation
- Smart Contracts
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hyperledger/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: hyperledger:hyperledger-fabric-api
  name: Hyperledger Fabric API
  description: Hyperledger Fabric is a permissioned distributed ledger platform. Programmatic access is provided via the Fabric
    Gateway, peer gRPC APIs, and SDKs for chaincode invocation, ledger queries, and channel administration.
  humanURL: https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/
  tags:
  - Blockchain
  - Distributed Ledger
  - Permissioned
  - Smart Contracts
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  - type: GatewayDocs
    url: https://hyperledger.github.io/fabric-gateway/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric
- aid: hyperledger:hyperledger-firefly-api
  name: Hyperledger FireFly API
  description: Hyperledger FireFly is a multiparty system orchestration framework providing REST APIs for tokens, messages,
    identities, contracts, and events across multiple blockchain protocols.
  humanURL: https://hyperledger.github.io/firefly/
  tags:
  - Blockchain
  - Multiparty
  - Tokens
  - Web3
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hyperledger.github.io/firefly/latest/reference/api/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/hyperledger/firefly
- aid: hyperledger:hyperledger-indy-api
  name: Hyperledger Indy API
  description: Hyperledger Indy provides tools, libraries, and reusable components for decentralized identities rooted on
    blockchains. APIs are exposed via the Indy SDK and Indy Node REST endpoints.
  humanURL: https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/hyperledger-indy
  tags:
  - Decentralized Identity
  - Did
  - Identity
  - Self-Sovereign Identity
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hyperledger-indy.readthedocs.io/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node
- aid: hyperledger:hyperledger-cacti-api
  name: Hyperledger Cacti API
  description: Hyperledger Cacti (formerly Cactus) is a pluggable enterprise-grade framework for cross-chain transactions,
    providing connector plugins and REST APIs for interoperability across DLTs.
  humanURL: https://hyperledger-cacti.github.io/cacti/
  tags:
  - Blockchain
  - Interoperability
  - Cross-Chain
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hyperledger-cacti.github.io/cacti/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/hyperledger/cacti
- aid: hyperledger:hyperledger-eth-api
  name: Hyperledger Eth API
  description: Standard Ethereum JSON-RPC methods.
  humanURL: https://besu.hyperledger.org/
  baseURL: https://besu.example.com
  tags:
  - Eth
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hyperledger-eth-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://besu.hyperledger.org/public-networks/reference/api
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/hyperledger/besu
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/hyperledger-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hyperledger-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyperledger-project
- type: Documentation
  name: Hyperledger Documentation
  url: https://www.hyperledger.org/use
- type: LFDecentralizedTrust
  name: LF Decentralized Trust
  url: https://lfdecentralizedtrust.org/
- type: GitHubOrg
  name: Hyperledger GitHub
  url: https://github.com/hyperledger
- type: LFDTGitHub
  name: LF Decentralized Trust GitHub
  url: https://github.com/LF-Decentralized-Trust
- type: Wiki
  url: https://wiki.lfdecentralizedtrust.org/
- url: https://www.lfdecentralizedtrust.org/blog/rss.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com