National Payments Corporation of India released Drunix on June 17, 2026, an open-source distributed ledger platform built as an enhanced fork of Hyperledger Fabric. The platform supports enterprise-grade blockchain deployment with native privacy controls, governance mechanisms, and cross-chain interoperability features.
Drunix is NPCI's second major open-source blockchain contribution following Falcon, its earlier distributed ledger framework released in 2024. The new platform targets production-scale tokenization infrastructure for banks, fintechs, and government agencies operating under Indian data sovereignty requirements.
The release follows NPCI's partnership with NVIDIA to build a payments-native AI foundation model and its pilot of agentic UPI payments using UPI Reserve Pay with Razorpay on Anthropic's Claude. NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe has called for comprehensive regulatory architecture to govern the intersection of autonomous AI agents and payment infrastructure.