Ethereum OASIS Open Project Transitions to New EEA Community Projects
Wakefield, Mass. and Woburn, Mass., – June 29, 2021 – The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) and OASIS Open today announced that the Ethereum OASIS Open Project, home of the Baseline Protocol, will now operate under the banner of EEA Community Projects. The move leverages the strengths of both standards bodies, building on EEA’s leadership role in Ethereum standards for business while continuing to rely on OASIS’ expertise in supporting open source and open standards development. The formation of EEA Community Projects signals to the world that there is now a central location where Ethereum-related business standards are developed and new projects are advanced.
“The Ethereum OASIS Open Project has become the go-to community for open source-based standards development in Ethereum, such as the Baseline Protocol initiative. Transitioning Ethereum OASIS to the new EEA Community Projects will enable the Ethereum business ecosystem to leverage a wider network of resources and further accelerate innovation,” said Dan Burnett, EEA Executive Director and EEA Community Projects Governing Board Chair. “We look forward to working together to chart the future of Ethereum innovation and collaboration.”
- Learn more about the partnership from the EEA’s Dan Burnett and OASIS Open’s Guy Martin at the free EEA Ethereum Anniversary Special event on July 29. Sign up to register here.
- Get a deeper dive on EEA Community Projects at the free EEA Monthly Education Series session on August 11, 2021. Sign up to register here.
Creating EEA Community Projects will extend the pool of partners, talented developers and engineers dedicated to solving similar problems, and will help the community innovate even faster around initiatives like the Baseline Protocol. The existing Project Governing Board and Technical Steering Committees will continue in their roles.
”OASIS has tremendous respect for EEA’s leadership in the Ethereum ecosystem and its commitment to advancing adoption across industries,” said Guy Martin, Executive Director of OASIS Open. “EEA was pivotal in the formation, growth, and success of this project. We’re excited to bring the community together now under the EEA banner with continued support from the OASIS standards process. It marks a milestone for distributed technology and a giant step forward in the harmonization of the open source and open standards communities.”
By transitioning to the EEA Community Projects, the Ethereum OASIS Open Project will continue sponsoring projects and will continue to permit frictionless engagement between developers who are actively contributing to developing clear, open standards, first-rate documentation, and shared test suites that facilitate new features and enhancements for the Ethereum ecosystem.
“As a founding sponsor of the Ethereum OASIS Open Project, the EEA has been involved from the program’s inception, including the Baseline Protocol initiative for driving Mainnet business use cases. We are thrilled to bring both communities together under the EEA Community Projects banner to collaborate on how tools like Baseline can deliver value to consumer-facing industries through peer-to-peer transactions and services,” said John Whelan, Chairman of the EEA Board of Directors and Managing Director of Digital Assets at Banco Santander.
EEA Community Projects Sponsors, which provide strategic vision, governance, and technical guidance for the work, include Accenture, Chainlink, ConsenSys, the EEA, EY, Morpheus Network, Nethermind, Provide, Splunk and Unibright. Sponsors have the option to serve on the Projects Governing Board, where they approve work produced by the community as well as proposals for new open source projects. To learn more about becoming a Sponsor or joining the Projects Governing Board, visit here or contact the EEA Community Projects administrator.
Supporting Quotes
“As a founding member of both OASIS Open and EEA, we’ve been proud to participate in the incredible growth of both Baseline Protocol and the EEA communities. The EEA Community Projects is a logical next step that will strengthen the Ethereum development as a whole. The EEA Community Projects aims to raise the level of business collaboration needed to benefit Ethereum as a whole. We welcome all interested to the EEA Community Projects,” John Wolpert, ConsenSys Group Executive for Enterprise Mainnet, Baseline Protocol Technical Steering Committee Chair, and EEA Mainnet Working Group Vice Chair.
“We are thrilled to see the evolution of the EEA with the Ethereum OASIS Open Project becoming the EEA Community Projects. Standards are critical to the enterprise adoption of blockchain, and so we applaud any effort to streamline their development and advancement. We expect developers building Ethereum business-related technologies to be motivated to accelerate the pace of Ethereum innovation,” Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger.
About the EEA
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) enables organizations to adopt and use Ethereum technology in their daily business operations. The EEA empowers the Ethereum ecosystem to develop new business opportunities, drive industry adoption, and learn and collaborate. The EEA Community Projects will help businesses innovate even faster around standards and project initiatives that benefit Ethereum as a whole. To learn more about joining the EEA, reach out to membership@entethalliance.org or visit https://entethalliance.org/become-a-member/.
About OASIS Open
One of the most respected, nonprofit open source and open standards bodies in the world, OASIS advances the fair, transparent development of open source software and standards through the power of global collaboration and community. Many OASIS standards go on to be ratified by de jure bodies and referenced in international policies and government procurement. www.oasis-open.org
For additional information:
OASIS Open
Carol Geyer
communications@oasis-open.org
+1.941.284.0403
EEA
Jessie Hennion
jhennion@virtualinc.com
+1 781.876.6280
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