Blockchain as a Service:Create a consortium

This guide describes how to create a consortium as well as the roles and permissions in the consortium. A consortium is a virtual organization composed of multiple organizations. An organization can perform the following operations:

• Share the consortium blockchain.

• Create blockchain applications and share them with other organizations within the consortium.

Create a consortium

1. Log on to the Alibaba Cloud BaaS console.

2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Ant Blockchain > Contract Blockchain to go to the consortium list page. Click Create Consortium.

   Important

   According to laws and regulations and the company's internal compliance requirements, before you purchase blockchain services, please make sure that you have filed a declaration of use and gotten approval in advance.

3. In the Create Consortium dialog box, set the consortium information as follows:

   • Consortium Name: The name of the consortium.

   • Consortium Description: The description of the consortium.

4. Click Submit to create the consortium.

   The created consortium will be displayed on the My Consortia page.

   After you create a consortium, you can invite organizations to join the consortium and add consortium blockchains. For more information, see Manage consortium members and Manage consortium blockchains.

Consortium roles and permissions

A consortium contains two roles:

• Consortium administrator: The creator of the consortium.

• Consortium members: Tenant accounts that have joined the consortium.

The function permissions corresponding to each consortium role are as follows (Y means supported. N means not supported.):