Microsoft has announced the addition of two new partners and solutions to the growing blockchain ecosystem in the Azure Marketplace.



Earlier in June, the tech giant introduced Project Bletchley, which it describes as its architectural approach to building an Enterprise Consortium Blockchain Ecosystem. In September, it announced the next phase of its support of blockchain on Microsoft Azure with the launch of an early version of the Bletchley v1 infrastructural substrate.



Last month, Microsoft expanded support of Bletchley v1 into the Azure Marketplace. The company says that the project is its approach to bring distributed ledger (blockchain) platforms into the enterprise to build real solutions addressing real business problems while keeping the platform open.



Christine Avanessians Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Azure, announced the addition of Blockstack and Ethcore to its growing blockchain partner ecosystem.



Ethcore has published its high performance, low footprint, reliable Ethereum blockchain client, Parity, on Azure. With this, setting up a new Parity node in the cloud becomes easy, requiring little configuration from the user. A user can have a single node, private Ethereum network up and running for development and test within a few minutes.



In addition, Blockstack is building a new decentralized web of server-less applications where users can control their own data. With Blockstack Core v14, applications run locally and utilize user-specific data stores as their backend to maintain decentralization and control. Users can seamlessly deploy Blockstack Core nodes on Microsoft Azure, thereby getting access to the core functionality of the Blockstack stack, processing data from a standard blockchain layer to construct a global view of security and ownership mappings.