ConsenSys and AMD partner on blockchain cloud infrastructure

Blockchain heavyweight ConsenSys is partnering with hardware giant AMD and Abu Dhabi-based Halo Holdings to develop W3BCLOUD – a new cloud solution built for blockchain workloads.It’s no surprise that ConsenSys is in charge of software duties for the new platform and that it will be powered by AMD hardware, given their respective expertise. Halo Holdings is an investment management firm that focuses on large-scale technology transactions and private equity.The firms say they hope to provide the first independent cloud computing blockchain infrastructure tailored for governments and commercial enterprises. Their main focuses are on preserving the much-vaunted security of a blockchain database while increasing its notoriously impractical transaction throughput (number of transactions per second).