Open Source · Founding Member of the Verana Foundation

We Build the Open Trust Layer

An independent research and engineering company inventing, specifying, and shipping the infrastructure for a verifiable internet, for humans, services, and AI agents.

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Who we are

Independent. Technical. Long-Term.

2060 is a small, senior team distributed across the world. We are the people who, after many years at the Internet Identity Workshop, invented the concept of Verifiable Trust, and then wrote the specifications, seeded the reference implementations, and co-founded the Verana Foundation to steward the work as a public good.

We do not sell a platform. We write protocols. We ship open source. We operate the decentralized networks those protocols depend on. Our revenue comes from research, consulting, and managed operation, never from gatekeeping the technologies we invent.

When you work with 2060, you work directly with spec authors, maintainers, and operators. Not a sales team.

2020Genesis, Verifiable Trust concept
2021–22First PoCs, Hologram App
2023Verana VPR development starts
2024Verana brand established
2025Verana testnet launch
2026Building the agentic internet

What we do

Four Practices. One Mission.

Our work clusters around four reinforcing practices. Most engagements combine more than one.

Research

Investigate the hard problems of decentralized trust, DIDs, credential formats, verifiable governance, agentic trust, before they become product requirements.

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Specification Delivery

Write production-grade protocols for ecosystems, consortia, and standards bodies. We authored the Verana specifications and can do the same for yours.

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Open-Source Engineering

Ship production-grade open source: Governable AI Agents for personal and corporate use, Hologram App, MCP servers, verifiable services. All open source, all self-hostable.

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Consulting & Advisory

Ecosystem design, technical due diligence, architecture review, custom development, managed operation, and training, delivered by the people who built the stack.

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Flagship projects

What We've Built

Two flagship efforts define 2060's public footprint today.

Public foundation

Verana Foundation

The open, non-profit trust layer for the internet. We are a founding member of the Council, the principal author of the two Verana specifications, and the largest code contributor to the reference implementation. Verana is the ecosystem; 2060 is one of its engines.

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Product

Hologram Agentic AI

Open infrastructure for deploying decentralized, verifiable, identifiable, and governable AI agents. Built by 2060 on top of the Verana trust layer, running in production today, fully open source.

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Plus a growing portfolio of open-source projects under github.com/2060-io, see Projects for the full list.

What we believe

Principles We Don't Compromise

Six principles guide every engagement, every spec, and every line of code.

Decentralization: No single entity should decide who is allowed to exist online. Trust is cryptographic, portable, and ecosystem-governed.
Privacy: Personal data is not a business model. Selective disclosure and local-first computation are baseline requirements.
Sovereignty: Individuals own their identity and data. Organizations own their services and infrastructure.
Verifiability: "Trust me" is not a protocol. Every claim is independently verifiable; every governance rule is public.
Open source, open standards: We publish specifications so the work outlives us and competitors become collaborators.
Ship the code: A specification without a working implementation is a suggestion. Every spec we author comes with a production reference implementation.

Standards

We Build on Open Standards

2060 does not reinvent protocols. We implement them, contribute back, and extend them where real deployments expose gaps. Every component we ship is built on open, interoperable standards maintained by global standards bodies, and we are active participants in those bodies.

Interoperable by design. No vendor lock-in. Ever.

Building the Verifiable Internet. Together.

If you are a government, industry consortium, enterprise, or startup serious about decentralized trust and agentic AI, we would like to hear what you are building.

Start with a conversation. We respond within a few business days with honest input on whether we are the right fit.

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