Hyperledger has published a white paper which is available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z4M_qwILLRehPbVRUsJ3OF8Iir-gqS-ZYe7W-LE9gnE/edit#heading=h.m6iml6hqrnm2.
This document presents a reference architecture that can serve as a guideline to build permissioned distributed ledgers. The reference architecture consists of various components that form a business blockchain. These high-level components are shown in the reference architecture diagram shown here:
Reference architecture - source: Hyperledger whitepaper
Starting from the left we see that we have five top-level components which provide various services. ...
