A couple of well known blockchain companies have recently rebranded. Here are some details …
Monax Industries — is the new name for Eris Industries. Monax is another name for marmot, which are fuzzy rodents that the Eris team seem to relate to. You cannot make this stuff up … from the company blog:
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“We’ve long had an affinity for these fuzzy creatures. Marmots are natural ecosystem engineers, a keystone species that provides critical balance to the environment as a whole. Diligent burrowing transforms their mountain landscape into habitat that provides a framework for them and other species to thrive. Marmots bring order out of chaos, relishing planning, execution and tidiness. They are the engineers of their ecosystems. As we move away from our chaotic beginnings into a long-lasting framework, we embrace the tao of the marmot.”

So, back in 2003, JPMorgan Chase got fed up paying lots of money to IBM for its MQ Series messaging middleware and decided to build its own. AMQP — for Advanced Message Queuing Protocol — was the result, which was open sourced and became widely supported by many vendors. It was adopted as an ISO standard in 2014.

Why is this of interest to the blockchain world? Well, JPMC has begun to talk about its Quorum development, a blockchain platform based on Ethereum, which supports both public and private blockchains, the latter including selective publishing of data to only nodes that have agreed access to it, while having all nodes participate in block verification.

What’s more, the bank plans to open source its work in the near future and given its success (albeit, it took a while) with AMQP, one can imagine a future where it could provide a credible alternative to Hyperledger’s Fabric, or even proprietary offerings like Chain Core or R3’s Corda.
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More information in this article on CoinDesk.