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
Protocol Labs - Working on internal specifications around IPLD and IPFS technologics, designing and administering community grants, and specification governance for low-level AT protocol tooling
Centre.io Pushing forward the Verite.io prototype for compliant Decentralized Finance and miscellaneous technical standardization for USDC project, as well as research on SRO/governance around payments networks
WalletConnect - Advising on standards strategy and product strategy for building a multi-chain ecosystem around the WalletConnect network, including very early work on the MLS end-to-end encryption protocol for groups and passkeys for “smart accounts”
Spruce Systems Miscellaneous decentralized-identity standards and community consulting, as well as product design and community cat-hearding for Spruce’s suite of open-source projects, both current (Credible wallet, DIDKit) and future (Rebase)
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
