Cross-industry collaborative blockchain initiative Hyperledger continues to add new members to the consortium.

The latest members hail from the U.S., Europe, and Asia, along with a major wave of the new members from China. The general members to join the initiative include Beike Finance, BGI Shenzhen Co., Ltd., Bit Game Foundation, Circulor, JD.com, Kyra Solutions, Lenovo, NuCypher, Optherium Labs, Shenzhen Onething Technologies and Shenzhen Ultrachain Technologies.

"We have members of all sizes from close to 30 countries that are transforming healthcare, financial services, supply chain management, digital identity management and other online and cloud-based businesses and services,” Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger. “Of late, it's been exciting to see the rush of innovation in China and other Asian countries, where we have a large and growing base."

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 currently includes 10 business blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.