Ecosystems

Ecosystem designs are conceptual architectures that map out how KERI credentials, roles, and governance work together for specific communities. Each design is a complete specification — roles, credentials, delegation trees, and interoperability — ready to be implemented. Credentials and schemas shown are illustrative examples, not finalized specifications.

These are not whitepapers. They are buildable blueprints.

Humanitarian Service Marketplace

A cross-organizational ecosystem where individuals and organizations declaratively state service needs, and credentialed volunteers contractually commit to meet those needs. Service organizations participate as peers — each credentialing and vetting volunteers according to their own governance, while service opportunities and verified service records flow freely across organizational boundaries.

8 roles · 15 credentials · View credentials

Small Trades Cooperative

A cooperative of independent skilled tradespeople where each worker holds verifiable credentials — trade licenses, insurance, bonding, safety certifications — and contracts directly with homeowners and cities. No general contractor middleman. The cooperative provides community and collective bargaining, not administrative overhead. Workers capture the full value of their labor.

12 roles · 24 credentials · View credentials

Genealogy Ecosystem

Restructures family history research around cryptographically verifiable relationships between people, records, and evidence. Individuals own their research as portable, signed artifacts — family trees, source citations, DNA interpretations, and narrative histories — that carry provenance from source archives through researchers to families.

10 roles · 16 credentials · View credentials