Latest News: We signed on to No Phone Home (6/4/25). Provenance Marks meeting held (6/4/25). Christopher Allen talked with Hackernoon (4/29/25). Web pages for all recent meetings released (3/18/25).
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 digital-asset 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 RSS
- 2025-06-04: Blockchain Commons Signs No Phone Home Initiative
- 2025-06-03: Musings of a Trust Architect: Fair Witnessing in a Decentralized World
- 2025-04-29: Hackernoon: Christopher Allen Interview
- 2025-04-23: Musings of a Trust Architect: Interop, What Is It Good For?
- 2025-04-15: 2025 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report
- 2025-04-07: Musings of a Trust Architect: Architecting Trust in Software Releases
- 2025-02-04: SSI Orbit Podcast: Christopher Allen Interview
See the complete posts archive.
Top Articles
The following blog posts are among our most important:
- 2025-06-04: Blockchain Commons Signs No Phone Home Initiative
- 2025-06-03: Musings of a Trust Architect: Fair Witnessing in a Decentralized World
- 2025-04-29: Hackernoon: Christopher Allen Interview
- 2025-04-15: 2025 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report
- 2025-04-07: Musings of a Trust Architect: Architecting Trust in Software Releases
- 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:
- Gordian Envelope. Our privacy-first storage system, including elision capabilities, continues to be the focus of many projects include CSR, GSTP, and ZeWIF.
- FROST. We have held two implementer round tables and two developer workshops to date. Plans for 2025 (thanks to HRF) include a FROST signtool, Learning FROST from the Command Line, and more meetings.
- ZeWIF. The Zcash extensible Wallet Interchange Format is a major initiative to bring interoperability and openness to the Zcash ecosystem.
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.
