Leading consultancies have thrown their support behind the world’s largest open source Blockchain consortium. The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) now counts Deloitte, Accenture, Cognizant and Synechron among its rapidly expanding membership.

In signing up to the EEA charter, the heavy hitters of the professional services industry join a motley crew of actors from the technology, banking, academic and finance worlds. Microsoft, JP Morgan, BP and Santander are among the household names on the 300-strong list, sitting alongside relative minnows and dark horses from the emerging tech world.

What unites them is a deep interest in learning about the promising Blockchain technologies that are set to radically transform the digital world as we know it. With the advance of the new digital era as mysterious as it is inevitable, consultancies cannot afford to be one step off the pace. Clients, especially in the IT and finance sectors, now expect complete fluency in all things Blockchain to complement their consultant’s strategic and operational edge.