WAKEFIELD, Mass., USA – July 5, 2017 – The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) announced today its support for the first integration of Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant (PBFT) consensus with J.P. Morgan’s Quorum Blockchain Platform. The implementation was performed by AMIS, a joint venture of major financial institutions in Taiwan in a partnership with J.P Morgan, one of the world’s largest banks. Both AMIS and J.P. Morgan are members of EEA.

“This is significant advancement in providing enterprises a range of ‘pluggable’ consensus algorithms, which is a core objective of the EEA,” said Julio Faura, chairman of the board, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. “We are proud to see EEA members such as AMIS not only contributing in such a meaningful way, but also in collaboration with other members such as J.P. Morgan. Enterprise adoption of Ethereum has never been stronger, and is getting stronger everyday through efforts like these.”

EEA is a non-profit industry organization that defines standards so application built on an Ethereum-derived platform will run on all Ethereum platforms as well as supporting the development of enterprise tools and support. PBFT is the latest option added to Quorum and