Dispatches of a Trust Architect: Sanctuary and Exodus
On March 3, Vitalik Buterin posted a manifesto on X1. It introduced a new term: sanctuary technologies. Ten days later, the Ethereum Foundation made it offic...
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Dispatches of a Trust Architect: Ten Years of Self-Sovereign Identity
Ten years ago this week — on April 26, 2016 — I posted “The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity” on my Life with Alacrity blog. I had been thinking for a while a...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Agency in AI
It’s been ten years since I wrote the principles of self-sovereign identity. Though my focus was on identity systems, my underlying concern was always agency...
2026 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report
The first quarter of 2026 focused on producing a capstone for much of our stack, but also was about advancing our self-sovereign identity work. Here’s what...
Dispatches of a Trust Architect: Fighting Technology Paternalism
In 2016, I chose the term “self-sovereign identity” to describe what identity systems should protect. But the community I helped to build has been getting ca...