Advocating for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure to enable people to control their own digital destiny and to maintain their human dignity online
Blockchain Commons works with developer communities to design, build, and maintain secure & compassionate decentralized architectures & tools for digital assets & digital identity based on responsible key management; based on our Gordian Principles of independence, privacy, resilience, and openness; and based on our Self-Sovereign Identity Principles. Our goal is to reclaim human dignity & authority in the digital world. We also strive to educate & grow the blockchain community through online courses and our work with legislators and regulators.
Blockchain Commons is proudly a “not-for-profit” social benefit corporation, domiciled in Wyoming but operating world-wide. We have a strong commitment to open source and a defensive patent strategy: anyone can use or improve our tools, and no one can take them away.
Read more about Blockchain Commons’ vision & objectives.
News
- 2024-04-16: 2024 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report
- 2024-03-27: Foremembrance Day 2024 Presentation
- 2024-01-17: Blockchain Commons 2023 Overview
- 2023-11-30: Open Development: The Necessary Next Step for Open Source
- 2023-11-21: Echoes from History II: The Dangers of eIDAS
- 2023-11-15: Echoes from History: Designing Self-Sovereign Identity with Care
- 2023-11-08: Results of First FROST Round Table Published
See the complete posts archive.
Top Articles
The following blog posts are among our most important:
- 2024-04-16: 2024 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report
- 2024-03-27: Foremembrance Day 2024 Presentation
- 2024-01-17: Blockchain Commons 2023 Overview
- 2023-11-21: Echoes from History II: The Dangers of eIDAS
- 2023-11-08: Results of First FROST Round Table Published
- 2023-03-22: Wyoming Passes Private Key Protection & Digital Asset Registration Laws
- 2021-05-13: Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video
See the complete posts archive.
Major Projects
Current projects include:
- Collaborative Seed Recovery. CSR was a major topic for our Gordian Developers community in 2023, and is now advancing with initial work on our Depo server.
- dCBOR. We worked with the IETF and CBOR communities throughout 2023 to advance dCBOR and are now finalizing a draft.
- FROST. Our first FROST Implementer’s Round Table was in late 2023, with more to come.
See the complete list of Blockchain Commons’ projects, its Developer resources and our Technology Overview video for more.
More Info
For more information, see:
- Posts — News items and articles.
- Developers — Resources for our specifications.
- Repos — Our code & document repos.
- Gordian Developer Community — Discussions on our wallet specifications.
- Advocacy — Advocacy articles & testimony.
If you are interested in actively developing our interoperable specs such as Collaborative Seed Recovery and Gordian Envelope, please also join our Signal groups or mailing lists.
Sustaining Sponsors
Thank you to the following companies who have become sustaining sponsors.
Please support Blockchain Commons by becoming a GitHub sponsor or making a BTCPay donation.
Organization Membership
We are a member of COPA, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance. We believe in open software and open access to patents covering foundational cryptocurrency techniques.
