# Open Protocol Labs URL: https://opl.dev/ Open Protocol Labs (OPL) builds the honest layer for a world drowning in noise. The company designs neutral, sovereign infrastructure where identity is yours, truth is verifiable, and honest curation can win, across the channels culture flows through today. ## The honest layer for a world drowning in noise. Whoever curates what billions of people see ends up shaping what they believe. Right now, that flow runs through an engagement machine built to capture attention and deceive, with algorithms, gatekeepers, and AI-generated noise standing between people and reality. Open Protocol Labs is betting that truth can win without a ministry of truth, a neutral layer where a person owns their identity, verifies what's real, and chooses who to trust. ## Truth Without a Ministry of Truth Three pillars carry that idea forward on the homepage. ### Identity You Own Identity You Own means self-sovereign, portable identity that a person holds and controls directly, immune to a platform revoking it on a whim. ### Provenance You Verify Provenance You Verify means every claim gets signed, timestamped, and traced back to its source on-chain, so deepfakes have nowhere to hide. ### Trust You Choose Trust You Choose means a web of trust and an open market of curators, where a person's own network filters what they see and no single algorithm sets the rules. ## The Network We've Already Built The company already ships this as a working set of apps and protocols. ### Apps #### The 1Sat Browser The 1Sat Browser bundles a wallet, identity, direct messaging, agentic MCP tools, and an app store into one place a person owns outright. #### Minerva Minerva replaces the algorithmic video feed with human, trust-based discovery. #### BitChat BitChat carries private and group messaging across platforms, built natively for the open web. #### MetaLens MetaLens lets anyone comment, annotate, and surface the truth on any URL, layering a web of trust over pages that were never built with one. ### Protocols — the spine #### Sigma Identity Sigma Identity provides self-sovereign, on-chain identity that works as the login for everything a person builds and trusts. #### 1Sat Ordinals 1Sat Ordinals gives on-chain content and assets verifiable provenance, the receipts layer behind every claim. #### OrdFS OrdFS hosts content and entire sites directly from the chain, built for durability and resistance to censorship. #### Bitcoin Schema Bitcoin Schema supplies the shared data standards that every open-protocol app on the network uses to read and write the same records in a common format. ## A Mission That Can't Be Captured Open Protocol Labs sits at the center of a wider ecosystem. bOpen.ai carries the open source tools and skills, nodeless.network, an owned property, runs node deployment for the network, and GorillaPool, an owned mining brand, anchors the infrastructure underneath all of it. The plan calls for a neutral foundation to steward the open protocols and the web of trust as a public good over time. Open Protocol Labs, in turn, keeps building and sustaining the products people actually use, aiming for reach over profit so that no single party, including the company that built it, ends up as the gatekeeper. --- # Privacy Policy URL: https://opl.dev/privacy Open Protocol Labs' privacy policy covers what information the company collects from site visitors, how that information gets used, how long it's kept, and how a visitor can request access to it or ask for it to be deleted. The policy states that the company does not sell personal information to third parties, limits cookies on the site to what's needed for it to function, and lists info@opl.dev as the contact address for privacy questions. --- # Terms of Service URL: https://opl.dev/terms Open Protocol Labs' terms of service set the rules for using the website and its services, covering acceptable use, ownership of the site's content, and how the company handles open source components released under their own licenses. The terms disclaim warranties, limit the company's liability, explain how either side can end the relationship, and list a contact address for questions about the terms. --- # Vision URL: https://opl.dev/vision The /vision page presents Open Protocol Labs' public case as a slide deck: a moving argument for why a neutral, sovereign layer of the internet matters right now. The deck runs in a deliberate arc. It opens by laying out the stakes, then names the enemy: the algorithms, gatekeepers, and AI-generated noise that the homepage says stand between people and reality. From there it explains why the moment matters, introduces the team behind Open Protocol Labs, and states the company's thesis before walking through the mechanism it's proposing to fix the problem. From there, the deck turns concrete. A slide on the browser shows the 1Sat Browser as where the idea shows up first, a slide on proof offers evidence the approach already works, and slides on arenas and structure map where this plays out and how it's organized. The deck closes by naming allies and ending on a direct call to action for anyone who wants to help build the layer the homepage describes. --- # About Open Protocol Labs URL: https://opl.dev/about Open Protocol Labs designs low-level, open protocols built on Bitcoin's BSV blockchain and makes them free for anyone to use. The company also builds and maintains the applications that put those protocols to work. Its focus is the data people create and the tools they need to own their identity, verify where information came from, and choose whose judgment they trust. The protocol layer includes Sigma Identity, 1Sat Ordinals, OrdFS, and Bitcoin Schema. The application layer includes the 1Sat Browser, Minerva, BitChat, and MetaLens. Together they form a working network: portable identity, signed provenance, durable data, private communication, and trust-based discovery rather than a collection of disconnected demos. Open Protocol Labs was founded in 2023 by Luke Rohenaz and Kurt Wuckert Jr. The company operates bOpen.ai as its open-source brand and also owns the GorillaPool and nodeless.network infrastructure brands. Its long-term structure separates product building from stewardship: a neutral foundation is intended to hold the shared protocols as a public good while the company sustains products people use. The goal is an honest layer for the internet where no platform, algorithm, or company becomes the permanent gatekeeper. --- # Contact Open Protocol Labs URL: https://opl.dev/contact Open Protocol Labs welcomes questions about its open protocols, shipped applications, infrastructure, partnerships, press, and the company's public vision. The primary public contact is info@opl.dev. This mailbox is monitored by the company and is the right starting point when no product-specific channel is listed. For technical questions, include the protocol or application name, the relevant URL, what you are trying to build, and enough detail to reproduce the issue. Open Protocol Labs works across Sigma Identity, 1Sat Ordinals, OrdFS, Bitcoin Schema, the 1Sat Browser, Minerva, BitChat, and MetaLens, so naming the surface helps route a message to the right person. For company, partnership, investor, or press inquiries, describe the organization you represent and the outcome you want to discuss. Investors who want to be kept in the loop should say so and include a name and email. Roles and applications go to careers@opl.dev. Agents can read https://opl.dev/llms.txt, https://opl.dev/developers, and MCP get_contact at https://opl.dev/mcp. --- # Developers URL: https://opl.dev/developers The Open Protocol Labs developer portal publishes the files agents and humans use to read this site: llms.txt, OpenAPI, MCP, versioning, rate-limit headers, the official CLI, and contact. Agents start with https://opl.dev/llms.txt and https://opl.dev/openapi.json. GET /api and GET /api/v1 return discovery JSON. Dedicated docs: https://opl.dev/developers/auth, https://opl.dev/developers/openapi, and https://opl.dev/developers/cli. The current version is /api/v1. Breaking changes ship as /api/v2. Retired versions send Deprecation: true, a Sunset HTTP-date (RFC 8594) at least 180 days out, and Link rel=deprecation. Every /api response includes API-Version: 1 plus IETF RateLimit and RateLimit-Policy headers (draft-ietf-httpapi-ratelimit-headers). 429 responses also send Retry-After, which takes precedence over RateLimit t. Failed calls return RFC 9457 application/problem+json with a code, detail, and hint. The official CLI is @opl.dev/cli. The MCP server is at https://opl.dev/.well-known/mcp.json, Streamable HTTP at https://opl.dev/mcp. Public MCP tools are get_docs and get_contact. Investor updates go through info@opl.dev. Roles go through careers@opl.dev. --- # OpenAPI URL: https://opl.dev/developers/openapi Open Protocol Labs publishes OpenAPI 3.1 at https://opl.dev/openapi.json. Operations document an application/json success schema and RFC 9457 application/problem+json errors. Human docs: https://opl.dev/developers/openapi. --- # Talking to OPL URL: https://opl.dev/developers/auth Agents read Open Protocol Labs through https://opl.dev/llms.txt and the MCP server at https://opl.dev/mcp (get_docs, get_contact). People write info@opl.dev or use https://opl.dev/contact. That is how an investor asks to receive updates, and how a protocol question gets routed. Roles and applications go to careers@opl.dev. Human docs: https://opl.dev/developers/auth. --- # CLI URL: https://opl.dev/developers/cli The official Open Protocol Labs CLI is @opl.dev/cli in packages/cli. Install with npm i -g @opl.dev/cli. opl contact prints info@opl.dev for protocol questions and investor updates. opl careers prints careers@opl.dev. Human docs: https://opl.dev/developers/cli. --- --- ## Portfolio - The 1Sat Browser (app) https://1sat.app The sovereign browser: wallet, identity, direct messaging, agentic MCP, and an app store — one place all information passes through, owned by you. - Minerva (app) https://minerva.live Video curation that replaces the algorithmic feed with human, trust-based discovery. - BitChat (app) https://bitchatnitro.com Cross-platform private and group messaging, native to the open web. Contributors: David, Jason, Luke - MetaLens (app) https://metalens.app Comment, annotate, and surface truth on any URL — a web of trust over the whole internet. - Sigma Identity (protocol) https://sigmaidentity.com Self-sovereign on-chain identity — the login for everything you build and trust. Contributors: Luke, Jason - 1Sat Ordinals (protocol) https://1satordinals.com On-chain content and assets with verifiable provenance — the receipts layer. Contributors: David, Luke - OrdFS (protocol) https://ordfs.network Host content and entire sites directly from the chain — durable, censorship-resistant delivery. Contributors: Root, David, Luke, Dan - Bitcoin Schema (protocol) https://bitcoinschema.org Shared data standards for seamless interoperability across open-protocol apps. Contributors: Luke, David, Kurt, Dan