Open standards

The open standards NFH fabric aligns with and contributes to.

NFH fabric is built from open standards, contributes back to them, and aligns with established work where it exists.

Standards NFH fabric implements or aligns with

• W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) — pseudonymous identifiers across the Registry.
• W3C Verifiable Credentials (VCs) — Credentialling Edge issuance and verification.
• BBS+ / SD-JWT — selective disclosure of credential claims.
• OpenTelemetry — observability primitives across Observability & Audit.
• x402 — HTTP-mediated value movement.
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) — agent-native discovery and service consumption.
• BLAKE2 — cryptographic hashing and anchoring.
• Open Policy Agent (Rego) — network policy plug-ins for the Network Adapters Edge.

Standards NFH fabric defines openly

• Beckn Protocol v2 — discovery, contracting, fulfilment.
• The federation protocol for cross-instance value movement.
• Namespace / registry / record schemas.
• Network adapter wire and plug-in formats.