Clients and Partnerships

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Major Ongoing Clients

  • Protocol Labs - Working on internal specifications around IPLD and IPFS technologics, as well as coordinating a possible Multiformats Working Group at IETF to standardize low-level building blocks of IPLD to enable new use-cases
  • WalletConnect - Advising on standards strategy and product strategy for building a multi-chain ecosystem around the WalletConnect network
  • CASA - Head Janitor for chain-agnostic standardization and co-design of new primitives, focusing primarily on the interfaces between blockchain nodes, browsers, and other “user agents” (i.e. wallets)

Past Clients

Governmental Grants and Contracts

  • Sovereign Tech Fund Digital Infrastructure contract to support the reboot of activity at W3C around the ActivityPub standard for the Fediverse, and in the process bootstrapping the SocialWeb Coöp for ongoing public-good social-web innovation and stewardship
  • ESSIF-LAB Project: A self-serve identity verification dApp for creators based on ISCC self-publication and the Rebase Protocol for identity self-verification
  • Mozilla Foundation Grant for the Web Project: Honorbox, a lightweight self-publication platform for e-books using with an early form of C2PA embedded authenticity statement
  • Department of Homeland Security Silicon Valley Innovation Project Project: Prototype for a Customs & Border Protection imports documentation system, with Spherity GmbH

Partnerships

  • SocialWeb.coop - A loose coöperative of technologists working on social-web technologies, primarily ActivityPub and Fediverse federation issues
  • Webarch.coop - Git, CI and web design infrastructure support offered on a coöp-to-coöp/membership basis
  • Taqanu - identity and financial inclusion research org and identity platform; incubated KYC.DAO and related projects