SAN FRANCISCO – SyncFab , the first hardware manufacturing supply chain blockchain focused on connecting hardware buyers with manufacturers, today announced that it has joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), the world’s largest open source blockchain initiative.

As a member of the EEA, SyncFab will collaborate with industry leaders in pursuit of ethereum-based enterprise technology best practices, open standards, and open-source reference architectures. SyncFab joined Enterprise Ethereum Alliance to collaborate with leading manufacturers and government initiatives on the architecture and deployment of enterprise blockchain solutions to support the vision of Industry 4.0 through the SyncFab platform.

“Commenting on the Company’s EEA membership, Jeremy Goodwin, SyncFab Founder and CEO, said, “The EEA is comprised of many of the best minds, and forward-thinking business people and technologists from throughout the blockchain industry. Our EEA membership provides unlimited opportunity to raise our profile as a blockchain leader while networking and collaborating with many of the finest leaders in this exciting and disruptive space.”

With more than 500 member companies, the EEA membership base represents a wide variety of business sectors from every region of the world, including technology, banking, government, healthcare, energy, pharmaceuticals, marketing, and insurance. The EEA’s industry-focused, member-driven working groups are each tasked with creating and delivering specific advancements to the development and use of ethereum-based technologies.

About The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

The EEA is an industry-supported, not-for-profit established to build, promote, and broadly support Ethereum-based technology best practices, open standards, and open-source reference architectures. The EEA is helping to evolve Ethereum into an enterprise-grade technology, providing research and development in a range of areas, including privacy, confidentiality, scalability, and security. The EEA is also investigating hybrid architectures that span both permissioned and public Ethereum networks as well as industry-specific application layer working groups.