# NFH Fabric ## Home - [Networks for Humanity offerings](https://docs.nfh.global/about-nfh-offerings/readme.md): Networks for Humanity — an international network of labs building open, interoperable infrastructure for the intelligent era. - [Welcome to NFH fabric](https://docs.nfh.global/nfh-fabric/fabric.md): One composable network for discovery, contracting, settlement, identity, and trust. - [Why do we need an open NFH fabric?](https://docs.nfh.global/nfh-fabric/open-rails.md) - [Principles](https://docs.nfh.global/nfh-fabric/principles.md) - [Capabilities](https://docs.nfh.global/nfh-fabric/capabilities.md): What NFH fabric makes possible, and how it does it. - [Participants](https://docs.nfh.global/nfh-fabric/participants.md): Who's on NFH fabric and what they do. - [Open standards](https://docs.nfh.global/nfh-fabric/open-standards.md): The open standards NFH fabric aligns with and contributes to. - [Beckn Protocol](https://docs.nfh.global/nfh-fabric/open-standards/beckn-protocol.md): The Beckn Protocol specification defines a standard protocol stack that allows independently run applications to take part in trusted value exchange transactions. - [Agents as first-class participants](https://docs.nfh.global/nfh-fabric/agents.md): How autonomous software participates in NFH fabric — identity, authority, accountability — built into the protocol rather than bolted on. - [Capabilities of NFH fabric](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products.md) - [REGISTR — build trusted networks](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/registr.md): Digital ecosystems across sectors—commerce, mobility, energy, sustainability, public services, and more—need a reliable way for participants to identify,… - [Registry service benchmark](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/registr/benchmark.md): This page summarizes a set of performance tests conducted on the Registry Service in December 2025 to understand how it behaves under different data sizes and… - [DISCOVR — find catalogs](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/discovr.md): Welcome to the documentation for NFH fabric DISCOVR — the Discovery Service (DS) of the NFH fabric ecosystem. - [Getting started](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/discovr/getting-started.md): This guide shows a consumer application (consumer node) how to connect to an NFH fabric DISCOVR instance and run its first discover request. - [Deploying your own Discover](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/discovr/deploying-your-own-discover.md): How to deploy your own instance of the Beckn Discovr service, and what you need to have ready before you start. - [Usage](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/discovr/usage.md): How to discover resources across published catalogues using the Beckn Protocol v2.0. - [Examples](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/discovr/examples.md): Worked discover requests for each search mode. - [Test reports](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/discovr/reports.md): Performance, reliability, and functional reports for the NFH fabric Discovery Service. - [VC on Edge — prove anything](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/vc-on-edge.md): Issue & verify Verifiable Credentials at the edge — powered by OpenCred. All transactions run on trust. - [Concepts: VCs, DIDs, trust chains, revocation](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/vc-on-edge/concepts.md): Background for working with OpenCred — Verifiable Credentials, DIDs, trust chains, and revocation. - [Desktop app](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/vc-on-edge/desktop.md): Install OpenCred Desktop, import or generate a signing key, and issue your first credential. - [Docker image & API](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/vc-on-edge/docker.md): Run the OpenCred Docker image for headless issuance and verification — cloud, on-prem, and CI/CD. Your infrastructure, your keys. - [Verifying credentials](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/vc-on-edge/verifying.md): Four ways to verify an OpenCred credential — all running the same engine — and the common result shape. - [Security model](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/vc-on-edge/security.md): The security guarantees OpenCred makes — and their boundaries. Start here before adopting it in production. - [ONIX — connect to everything](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/onix.md): ONIX is an enterprise-grade middleware adapter system designed to facilitate seamless communication in any NFH fabric-enabled network. - [Observability & Audit](https://docs.nfh.global/product-documentation/products/observability-audit.md): End-to-end transaction tracing and verifiable audit trails. - [Overview](https://docs.nfh.global/use-cases/use-cases.md): How NFH fabric is used in practice — worked sketches across sectors. - [Personas — who NFH fabric is for](https://docs.nfh.global/use-cases/personas.md): Who NFH fabric is for — the people, businesses, institutions, and agents whose jobs get easier when value moves on an open network. - [Rooftop solar & prosumer energy markets](https://docs.nfh.global/use-cases/rooftop-solar-prosumers.md): Peer-to-peer rooftop solar, portable net-metering credits, and demand response — a prosumer energy market on NFH fabric. - [Energy procurement at data-centre scale](https://docs.nfh.global/use-cases/cheapest-kilowatt.md): Continuous energy procurement at data-centre scale. - [Own your customer: local commerce](https://docs.nfh.global/use-cases/own-your-customer.md): Small sellers reaching buyers directly — keeping the margin, the relationship, and a verifiable identity — instead of renting an aggregator. - [Cross-border commerce](https://docs.nfh.global/use-cases/cross-border-commerce.md): Federated commerce across borders without the card-network chain. - [An arbitration network](https://docs.nfh.global/use-cases/justice-network.md): Dispute resolution, arbitration, legal aid, and court-grade digital evidence — as an open network on NFH fabric. - [Resilient healthcare supply](https://docs.nfh.global/use-cases/resilient-health-supply.md): Sourcing prequalified medicines across borders with end-to-end traceability — a resilient health-supply network on NFH fabric. - [Portable benefits & fair pricing](https://docs.nfh.global/use-cases/portable-benefits.md): Insurance, credit, and benefits that follow the worker across platforms — portable, verifiable, fairly priced, on NFH fabric. - [The creator economy](https://docs.nfh.global/use-cases/creator-economy.md): Sustainable funding for open-source, frictionless global micropayments, and creators who own their audience — on NFH fabric. - [Securitising illiquid assets](https://docs.nfh.global/use-cases/securitise-any-asset.md): Provenance-anchored tokens for assets that don't move today. - [Data marketplace for agents](https://docs.nfh.global/use-cases/agent-data-marketplace.md): MCP-native discovery and per-call metering for data products. - [Hybrid human-agent teams](https://docs.nfh.global/use-cases/hybrid-human-agent-teams.md): Credentialled delegation with audit, across humans and agents. - [Get started](https://docs.nfh.global/build/build.md): Build on NFH fabric — from your first transaction to standing up a whole network. Getting started, agents, and the operator playbook. - [Getting started with NFH fabric](https://docs.nfh.global/build/getting-started-with-fabric.md): A hands-on starter kit for running a live beckn network in your own environment within 10 minutes — complete with a consumer node, a provider node, and the… - [Join the network](https://docs.nfh.global/build/join-the-network.md): Get an identity on NFH fabric, publish a catalogue, and transact. - [Onboarding on the NFH fabric](https://docs.nfh.global/build/onboarding.md): Join the NFH fabric as a Network Facilitator Organisation (NFO) or a Network Participant (NP) — on the hosted dedi.global solution or by publishing files on your own domain. - [Hosted onboarding via dedi.global](https://docs.nfh.global/build/onboarding/hosted.md): Set up your network as an NFO, or register your subscriber details as an NP, on the hosted dedi.global solution. - [File-based onboarding](https://docs.nfh.global/build/onboarding/file-based.md): Publish DeDi files on your own domain — publishing your index file and registry is your onboarding, for NFOs and NPs alike. - [Worked example](https://docs.nfh.global/build/onboarding/worked-example.md): A complete file-based mobility network example - the NFO's index and reference registry, a file-based NP, and a hosted NP referenced via dedi.global lookup. - [Switching onboarding paths](https://docs.nfh.global/build/onboarding/switching-paths.md): Move an NFO or NP between the hosted (dedi.global) path and the file-based path without leaving the NFH fabric. - [Unpublishing your registries](https://docs.nfh.global/build/onboarding/unpublishing.md): Remove your registries from the NFH fabric, on either onboarding path. - [Build with agents](https://docs.nfh.global/build/agents.md): Patterns and primitives for building agent-native applications on NFH fabric. - [Creating a network](https://docs.nfh.global/build/creating-a-network.md): The operator track for standing up an open network on NFH fabric — environment, participant onboarding, policies, and building consumer and provider nodes. - [Setting up the network environment](https://docs.nfh.global/build/creating-a-network/environment.md): This section covers how a Network Facilitator Organization (NFO) sets up a new NFH fabric network using the NFH fabric Registry infrastructure on DeDi Global, and how… - [Onboarding network participants](https://docs.nfh.global/build/creating-a-network/onboarding-participants.md): Once the network registry has been created, approved NPs can be added to the network. - [Catalog Publishing and Discovery](https://docs.nfh.global/build/creating-a-network/catalog-publishing-and-discovery.md): How a Provider Node self-hosts and self-signs its catalog, and how a Discovery Service finds, verifies, and indexes it — with no centrally-run relay in between. - [Configuring network policies](https://docs.nfh.global/build/creating-a-network/network-policies.md): Once the network environment exists, the network facilitator can define rules that apply across that network. - [Creating and publishing the network manifest](https://docs.nfh.global/build/creating-a-network/network-policies/network-manifest.md): This guide explains how a Network Facilitator Organization (NFO) can create, publish, and maintain a network manifest for an NFH fabric network. - [Creating and publishing Rego policy artifacts](https://docs.nfh.global/build/creating-a-network/network-policies/rego-policies.md): This guide explains how Network Facilitating Organizations (NFOs) can author policies in Rego, package them as OPA bundles, or a single rego file, publish… - [Signing a single file](https://docs.nfh.global/build/creating-a-network/network-policies/signing-files.md): OpenSSL can create digital signatures using a private key and verify them using the corresponding public key. - [Migration Guides](https://docs.nfh.global/build/migration-guides.md): Guides for moving a Beckn Network deployment between various topologies without breaking network interoperability. - [Migrating from Beckn protocol version 1 to version 2](https://docs.nfh.global/build/migration-guides/beckn-v1-to-v2.md): A readiness checklist for moving a Beckn network participant from protocol v1 to v2 — covering DEDI registry setup, protocol and schema readiness, ONIX configuration, and business application migratio - [Migrating from the centralized Catalog Service to the decentralized catalog](https://docs.nfh.global/build/migration-guides/catalog-service-to-decentralized-catalog.md): A migration guide for networks currently publishing through CATALG's centralized publish/subscribe API, moving to the decentralized, self-hosted catalog model. - [Resources and changelog](https://docs.nfh.global/build/resources.md): Working group, changelog, repositories, and the broader resource map. - [Roadmap](https://docs.nfh.global/roadmap-and-releases/roadmap.md): What's coming next across the NFH fabric platform and its services. - [Releases](https://docs.nfh.global/roadmap-and-releases/releases.md): Release notes across the NFH fabric services --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. 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