Advocating for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure to enable people to control their own digital destiny.
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Joined January 2019
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Our Q3 2026 report is live! 📊
📦 TypeScript joins our Rust libraries for #GordianStack apps
₿ Learning Bitcoin updates
🔑 Passkey-only identity with Cloudflare
🛡️ Open Integrity: verifiable Git commits
🤖 Guidelines for AI in Git repos
…and more
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This week we're part of @OctantApp's Epoch 13, which funds projects advancing privacy, not only on @ethereum but also across the open internet.
Our 3-minute video says how the #GordianStack keeps the #SSI promise, and why we hope you'll vote for it:
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In a quadratic funding round, how many people give counts for more than how much, so a single vote can move a lot of matching.
Six Open Internet projects without a deep ETH community base need yours. How to take part:
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📣 Attention, privacy lovers!
Voting in Epoch 13 - the Privacy Round - is now open and runs through October 21.
“Cool, but I don’t have GLM locked...”
No worries. You don’t need need to have ethereum:0x7dd9c5cba05e151c895fde1cf355c9a1d5da6429 to participate.
Anyone with $ETH can now contribute through the contribute-and-burn path. 🧵
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Our Q1 Report has been released. Its major topics: stack capstones; known values populated; XID expansion & tutorial; self-sovereign identity work; and the return of Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line.
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A look back at our work in 2025: a FROST capstone, Zcash support, and new technologies including XIDs, provenance marks, Gordian Clubs, and Hubert the Dead-Drop Hub.
A year building a shared infrastructure for self-sovereign systems—read the full report!
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The Q3 2025 Quarterly Report from @BlockchainComns is here! Advancing Bitcoin FROST signing, strengthening provenance, launching Gordian Clubs, and a preview of Hubert ‘secret drops’—each a step toward interoperable, self-sovereign autonomous systems and resilient digital trust.
Explore how we’re engineering autonomy into the next generation of digital trust:
🔗 blockchaincommons.com/quarte…
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The 2024 annual report from @BlockchainComns is here! It highlights our work toward an open, secure, and compassionate digital infrastructure, emphasizing interoperability and self-sovereign wallet standards through key projects: dCBOR, FROST, and Gordian Envelope.
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Our new quarterly report is out, covering FROST, Gordian Envelope, Seed Recovery, and more. blockchaincommons.com/quarte…
Our Q2 report for 2024 is out. Here's what we've been doing the last few months! It includes a pile of videos, presentations from some experts in the Bitcoin field, and info on our newest interoperability specifications. blockchaincommons.com/quarte…
Blockchain Commons has received a Bitcoin Development Fund grant for our continued support of FROST, courtesy of @HRF . We will be holding meetings in Sept. & Dec and you're invited. Click through for the specifics! blockchaincommons.com/news/H…
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Our Q1 Report is out! Advancing privacy with hashed data elision, work on dCBOR for hashed data formats like Gordian Envelope, and improving multisig usability. Also FROST signatures, MUR guide for Animated QRs, and updates on Gordian Seed Tool & Server: blockchaincommons.com/quarte…
A year of innovation! Our 2023 yearly report is out, detailing @BlockchainComns progress in digital asset & wallet interoperability standards, FROST, animated QRs, Collaborative Seed Recovery, Gordian Envelope, dCBOR, and more! Support our mission! Read👇 blockchaincommons.com/quarte…
Today's quarterly report for summer/Q3 talks about specification updates, Rust libraries, SSI articles, and a whole new website for developers!
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Today’s 2023-Q2 report talks about our work on Gordian Envelope, dCBOR, and more. blockchaincommons.com/quarte…
In our June Gordian Meeting, @WolfMcNally spoke about the conversion of our Gordian stack to Rust. youtube.com/watch?v=KvO1GRRu…
This includes our new dCBOR library, our Shamir's Secret Sharing and SSKR libraries, our Uniform Resources library, and Gordian Envelope.
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Today’s Q1 report for our patrons talks about our progress so far this year, covering everything from legislative victories in Wyoming to developer meetings and specification work with IETF. blockchaincommons.com/quarte…
Our Gordian Developer meetings continue on April 5th at 4pm PT. [1/5] github.com/BlockchainCommons…
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Thanks to all who attended Silicon Salon 3 on January 18th. All of the presentation videos, slides, and key quotes are now available online! siliconsalon.info/salon3/.
Our yearly report for 2022 is now available, talking about progress at Blockchain Commons over the course of the last year, including #SiliconSalon, Collaborative Seed Recovery #CSR, #GordianEnvelope, advocacy in Wyoming for protecting keys, and more! blockchaincommons.com/quarte…
Blockchain Commons has a new blog post about our new architecture & specs for “smart documents” to support the storage, backup, encryption, authentication & transmission of data that focus on cryptographic privacy. Read our Gordian Envelope Intro: blockchaincommons.com/introd…
Here is our third quarter report for our sponsors, with details on Silicon Salon 2, Gordian Envelope, Private Key Disclosure Advocacy, and more. blockchaincommons.com/quarte…