Q3 Projects - HackMD

--- robots: noindex, nofollow --- # Q3 Projects ###### tags: `article / in process` For the third quarter, Blockchain Commons has begun work on three large projects. Because they are somewhat intertwined, we're writing this overview to clarify the purpose of each project, who is already involved, and what you can do to further support them if they're of interest. ## 1. Collaborative Seed Recovery Collaborative Seed Recovery (CSR) is the first step in the development of our next-generation Smart Custody architecture. The [CSR Project](https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Community/issues/149) is intended to automate the sharding and recovery of seeds and other essential metadata, with options to support shard-recovery services where interopable services can hold envelopes of data containing shards of the data required for wallet recovery and only return them to users following sufficient authentication. This work is currently being done in conjunction with Bitmark and Proxy who are each dedicating engineering time to the project while Blockchain Commons contributes specs and coordination. It's meant for deployment _this year_. If you'd like to create a seed-recovery service, or want to leverage the availability of online seed-recovery services, and have the engineering talent to support this, please let us know. Also, please let us know if you'd like to deploy apps for this service on platforms other than the iPhone and Android, or online backends other than Go and Javascript. ## 2. Automated Multisig Round Trips [Automated multisig round-trips](https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Community/issues/159) are meant to expand the work Blockchain Commons has already done on Uniform Resources (URs) by using `crypto-requests` to automate the creation and usage of a classic (pre-Taproot) bitcoin multisig. This will be done through the development of a new reference app, Gordian Coordinator, which will be a transaction coordinator that holds no private keys, and through the expansion of Gordian Seed Tool. Our ultimate goal is to demonstrate the ease of use possible with a fully integrated system of `crypto-requests`. This work is currently one of the main focuses of Blockchain Commons' own engineering. It's meant for deployment _this year_. The automation designs have obvious repercussions on similar automation in other projects such as CSR. Our reference apps, Gordian Seed Tool and Gordian Coordinator, will both be released for iOS. If you would like to provide a parallel reference for another platform, particularly Android, please let us know. ## 3. Hardware API Standardization The varied APIs of hardware devices can cause numerous integration problems for developers (the so-called "NASCAR Problem". Thus our [Hardware API Project](https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Community/issues/158) seeks to develop a unified wallet architecture & APIs that will work with a variety kinds of devices. We also plan to leverage URs and crypto-requests and to support device capability discovery. The first steps will be analyzing and assessing current hardware APIs, abstracting out functionality, and simultaneously leveraging new work such as that being done by CrossBar for silicon support. This work is currently being done in conjunction with CrossBar and Proxy who are each dedicating engineering time to the project while Blockchain Commons contributes specs and coordination. In addition, CrossBar is looking for support in maintaining a high-level cryptography engineer (Bryan Bishop) to focus this project. This project is _not_ meant for deployment this year, but is a more forward looking project. If you are interested in helping to financially support Bryan's work on this project, please let us know and we'll put you in contact with CrossBar. If you personally have hardware API experience or specific hardware requirements, please also let us know so that we can get you involved with this project.