Research. Specify. Build. Advise.

Practice 01

Research

We investigate hard problems of decentralized trust before they become product requirements. Research outputs take the form of specification drafts, reference implementations, and deployed testnets, not only academic papers. We bring what we learn directly into the Verana ecosystem and into client engagements.

Current portfolio

• Decentralized identifiers and credential formats, contributions to the OpenWallet Foundation (notably credo-ts), Trust Over IP working groups and specifications, W3C specifications, DIDComm messages, DID methods, and related standards efforts.
• Verifiable governance, formal models of Ecosystem Governance Frameworks, Permission Trees, and on-chain trust deposits that make governance machine-readable and economically enforceable.
• Agentic trust, how W3C Verifiable Credentials, DIDComm, and MCP combine to give AI agents verifiable identities, bounded authority, and auditable behavior.
• Proof-of-Trust resolution, recursive trust-chain verification algorithms, caching strategies, and UX patterns for presenting cryptographic provenance to non-technical users.
• Privacy-preserving verification, unlinkability guarantees, BBS+ and CL signature deployments, and selective-disclosure interaction patterns.

Practice 02

Specification Delivery

Writing a good specification is a craft. It requires technical depth, ecosystem judgment, and the patience to reach consensus without losing rigor. We do it for our own stack, and we do it for clients.

As Verana's principal spec authors, we published:

• Verifiable Trust Specification, the end-to-end model for Verifiable Services, Verifiable User Agents, Proof-of-Trust, service-endpoint declaration, and credential-chain resolution.
• Verifiable Public Registry Specification, the on-chain data model for trust registries, credential schemas, permission trees, validation fees, and trust deposits.
• Ecosystem Governance Frameworks, templates and worked examples for drafting the governance documents that bind a trust registry to a real-world jurisdiction or industry.

For clients who need a protocol, for their ecosystem, their regulator, their consortium, we deliver it: problem framing, interoperability analysis, normative language, conformance test suites, and a reference implementation that proves the spec is buildable.

Practice 03

Open-Source Engineering

We ship production-grade open source. Today the 2060 portfolio includes:

• Hologram Agentic AI, an open-source stack for building, deploying, and governing AI agents for personal and corporate use: the VS Agent framework (DIDComm + credo-ts), the Generic AI Agent (modular LLM orchestration with MCP, RAG, and credential-based access control), and Helm charts for Kubernetes deployment.
• Hologram App, an open-source Verifiable User Agent for iOS, Android, and Huawei AppGallery: end-to-end encrypted DIDComm messaging, credential wallet, NFC document reading, biometric liveness detection, audio/video calls, and parental controls. Extend it, or build your own against the Verifiable Trust spec.
• MCP servers, reusable Model Context Protocol servers for real-world tools: Wise, GitHub, X (Twitter), and a growing catalog of ecosystem integrations.
• Verifiable Services, reference issuers and utilities deployed on the Verana network: the Avatar issuer, the Government Digital ID issuer (passport NFC + liveness), and a portfolio of AI agents.
• Verana infrastructure components, co-maintained with the Verana Foundation: VPR blockchain node, Frontend, Resolver, Indexer, Visualizer, testnet faucet.

All Open Source. All self-hostable. All running in production somewhere today.

Practice 04

Consulting & Advisory

Specifications and open source are necessary but not sufficient. Deploying them correctly takes experience most organizations do not yet have in-house. We fill that gap.

• Ecosystem design, help a government, industry consortium, or large enterprise design a trust registry: credential schemas, governance framework, permission tree, fee structure, grantor model.
• Technical due diligence, independent assessment of decentralized identity and verifiable credentials stacks for strategic buyers, auditors, or regulators.
• Architecture review and advisory, short, focused engagements for teams building on DIDs, Verifiable Credentials, DIDComm, MCP, or the Verana network. Code review, threat modeling, performance analysis, migration strategy.
• Custom development, where off-the-shelf open source does not reach, we build the missing pieces: custom MCP servers, custom Agent Packs, custom credential schemas, custom verifier flows, custom trust-resolution UIs.
• Managed operation, for clients that want a sovereign deployment without operating it themselves, we run the stack under an operational agreement. You own the DIDs and the data; we run the pods and the on-call rotation.
• Training and enablement, developer workshops on the Hologram stack, the Verifiable Trust spec, the VPR, MCP, and DIDComm. Remote or on-site.