gmaxwell the devs 'boss' (CTO) works for blockstream which have an agenda and their own platform.
Gmaxwell loves Monero.
gmaxwells wage comes from AXA and DCG, which DCG owns coindesk and many other services. and also zcash.
DCG and blockstream is also involved with the bankers hyperledger.
also another blockstream employee, who invented FIBRE (ringfensing blockstream nodes around the bitcoin pools as the top of the network topology) (termed upstream filters). is now working with 'chaincode' to create hyperledgers 'fabric'