Portable Communities Protocol

P2P Platforms/Frameworks

Conceptual proposal for a protocol enabling persistent, composable, application- and platform-independent online communities represented as graphs. Proposes that communities (humans + relationships) become first-class objects within and between networks using DIDs, verifiable credentials, and object capabilities. Currently at concept/proposal stage with no implementation .

Federated Community Low capture risk

Details

License N/A
Dev Status Planned
Owner Unknown / community proposal (references noo.network for initial graph visualization experiments)
Country Unknown
Start Year 2023
Stack TBD
Funding Bootstrapped
Last Investigated Mar 10, 2026

Use Case Domains

Group Formation & Governance Platform Evolution & Sovereignty

Affordances

Composable groups Data portability Cross-instance federation

P2P Platform Attributes

P2P Architecture Proposed: decentralized personal online datastores for nodes; graph representation mappable to DAOs and smart contracts; each human node owns and controls its outbound edges
Development Tools TBD
Deployment Options TBD (proposed: decentralized personal datastores; initial PoC centralized)
Authentication & Identity Proposed: DIDs for sybil-resistant cross-community identity; Verifiable Credentials for membership verification; GreenCheck concept using 3-friend authentication
Storage Model Proposed: personal online datastores per node; centralized ArangoDB for PoC with JSON export
Interoperability Proposed: communities as portable graphs interoperable across applications via Object Capabilities (principle of least authority); boolean operations across community graphs (intersection, federation)
Social Graph Yes (core concept): communities modeled as social graphs — nodes are humans, edges are weighted/typed relationships; supports multi-community membership, graph intersection, and federation