Welcome to Blockchain Commons

Latest News: Garner released to support private, censorhsip-resistant self-sovereign identity file distribution by using Tor (2/11/26). Yearly report published (1/14/26). HRF offers grant for updating Learning Bitcoin (1/13/26). Learning FROST from the Command Line course released (12/2/25). Revisiting SSI project kicks off (11/12/25).

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

2026-02-12: Musings of a Trust Architect: Progress toward a State-Endorsed Identity (SEDI) in Utah
2026-02-11: Musings of a Trust Architect: How XIDs Demonstrate a True Self-Sovereign Identity
2026-01-14: Blockchain Commons 2025 Overview
2026-01-13: Blockchain Commons Receives 2026 Learning Bitcoin Grant from HRF
2025-11-12: Announcing the 10-Year SSI Revision Project
2025-10-28: Musings of a Trust Architect: The Exodus Protocol
2025-10-22: 2025 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

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, most recently including Garner and Hubert.
XIDs. Another use of Gordian Envelope, XIDs offer the model for true self-sovereign identity.
Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line. Our classic course offering hands-on experience learning Bitcoin is being updated in 2026 thanks to a grant from HRF.
FROST. We brought our three years of FROST to a capstone in 2025 with our Learning FROST from the Command Line course, which includes hands-on work with tools we built to support FROST signing of Bitcoin transactions.

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.