The Seam, a Tennessee-based agribusiness software and commodities trading solutions provider, is the latest to join the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA).

EEA is a leading open source blockchain initiative with over 400 member organisations including the likes of Microsoft, J.P. Morgan, Cisco Systems, Deloitte, Thomson Reuters and others. It aims to build, promote and support Ethereum-based technology best practices, open standards and open-source reference architectures.

With its membership, The Seam will collaborate with industry leaders on the architecture and deployment of blockchain solutions for the enterprise.

"We're proud to be a part of the EEA to help further the enterprise blockchain model for agriculture," said Mark Pryor, Chairman and CEO at The Seam. "We look forward to immersing ourselves in the EEA Working Groups to collaborate on standards and interoperability to drive broad adoption and advance the industry."

Last January, The Seam announced a blockchain consortium for the global cotton industry. In collaboration with IBM, the company aims to bring together the industry to create a supply chain and trading ecosystem built on IBM blockchain technology, specifically using the Hyperledger Fabric.