Eleven new organizations have joined Hyperledger, an open-source collaborative initiative to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies.

The announcement comes on the heels of the second milestone launch of production ready blockchain framework, Hyperledger Sawtooth 1.0. Hyperledger incubates nine business blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, including Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Iroha, Hyperledger Indy, Hyperledger Burrow, Hyperledger Quilt and Hyperledger Sawtooth, among others.

The latest general members include 8Common, ArcBlock, Data Deposit Box, FORFIRM, ForgeRock, Inspur, Nexiot, ~sedna GmbH, Smart Block Laboratory. Associate members joining this month include: Peking University and ShareIT.io.

"It's very gratifying to see the momentum behind Hyperledger continue in 2018, two years after the project first started," said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger. "The community's development efforts have led us to release two production-ready frameworks and we've grown to more than 200 members in that time. Members add a great amount of value to our ecosystem and I look forward to contributions by this new set of organizations as more production deployments take shape later this year."

Hyperledger aims to enable organizations to build robust, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support their individual business transactions by creating enterprise-grade, open source distributed ledger frameworks and code bases. It is a global collaboration of more than 200 organizations including leaders in finance, banking, IoT, supply chain, manufacturing and technology.

The inaugural Hyperledger Global Forum is scheduled to take place later this year, December 12-15 in Basel, Switzerland.