Digital Contract Design is dedicated to advancing the usability and widespread dissemination of open source (free as in speech and beer) tools that empower people to make better informed, more meaningfully valuable decisions and effective plans. We place a special emphasis on security, privacy, identity management, accounting tools, and distributed cooperative endeavors. DCD is not monetized by advertising and does not want user personal data.
We are developing, in the Rust ecosystem: Rolohex, a comprehensive contact manager, encrypted chat, and bitcoin wallet system built on self-sovereign identity to secure your digital identity and assets; Todolife, a Life Planning Assistant and corporate-style Project management app with the unique capacity to accommodate the unexpected wrinkles of life; Wordsig, a simple protocol allowing one to unilaterally prevent a deepfake of one's speech; and a number of other open source products designed to allow more people to use an internet-native identity safely and responsibly.
Our team is comprised of independent experts who combine the freedom of remote contracting with the camaraderie and collaboration of a more traditional workplace. Funding is fully secured for all products, and we are seeking individual contractors and contracting groups to join us in advancing our mission. If you value being the direct owner of your digital identity and are deeply passionate about open source technology and its potential to benefit humanity and build greater international equality, send us your resume and a link to your best GitHub repository today.
DCD is seeking implementors and collaborators to join us in advancing our did:btc1 specification. did:btc1 is a censorship-resistant DID method using the Bitcoin blockchain as a Verifiable Data Registry to announce changes to the DID document. It improves on prior work by allowing: zero-cost off-chain DID creation; aggregated updates for scalable on-chain update costs; long-term identifiers that can support frequent updates; private communication of the DID document; private DID resolution; and non-repudiation appropriate for serious contracts. The full specification may be viewed on GitHub.
DCD is active in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Credentials Community Group, Decentralized Identifier Working Group and Verifiable Credentials Working Group.