The Digital World Documentation
A framework for decentralized governance, identity, and value exchange. Where authority exists, it is bounded. Where power flows, it returns to the individual.
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The Digital World Layer Stack
Twelve layers secure digital life, from governance to experience. Each layer is independently valuable. Together they form one universal protocol stack.
Experience Layer
Interfaces that bring LIFE to life.
Services and Applications Layer
Tools enabling creation of interoperable apps and services.
Browser and Discovery Layer
Find and connect to services, members, and endpoints across the network.
Agents and Clerks Layer
Automated systems executing authorized member tasks.
Intelligence Layer
Digital Intelligence includes personal assistants, agents, models, clerks, and automated systems.
Social Layer
Connect, share, and build communities.
Communication Layer
Private, secure, real-time communication.
Storage Layer
Your data, encrypted. Yours to control.
Agreements Layer
Digital agreements and contracts that members create, sign, and enforce.
Finance Layer
Payments, assets, and value that you own.
Identity Layer
Verifiable identity and authority.
Governance Layer
Rules, alignment, and evolution.
Decentralized
No single point of control. Power is distributed, authority is bounded, and exit is always possible.
Individual-Centric
The individual is at the center. Identity, consent, and choice are first-class concepts.
Transparent
Verification without endorsement. Recognition without guarantees. Trust through transparency.
Questions & Answers
Clear answers about Digital World, the LIFE Protocol, the LIFE Stack, ClearID, open standards, independent implementations, platform neutrality, and state adoption.
Digital World is an integrated open standard and governance framework for member-controlled digital identity, services, infrastructure, and digital life.
It provides a common framework through which individuals, families, governments, organizations, communities, applications, and service providers can interact without becoming dependent upon a single company, platform, technology stack, or application provider.
Digital World connects the foundational capabilities of digital life, including:
- Identity
- Communication
- Social interaction
- Intelligence
- Storage
- Finance
- Agreements
- Governance
- Voting and councils
- Digital agents and clerks
- Browser services
- Application and infrastructure development
Digital World is not merely a wallet, blockchain, software product, cloud service, or application platform.
It is the integrated standard through which independently developed systems can work together.
The LIFE Protocol defines the common requirements and guarantees that compatible Digital World systems must follow.
The LIFE Stack organizes the Digital World into 12 connected layers.
In simple terms:
- LIFE Protocol: The shared rules
- LIFE Stack: The 12-layer system organized around those rules
Together, they define how Digital World works.
The LIFE Protocol includes principles such as member-controlled identity, explicit and revocable consent, contextual privacy, proof-based verification, portability, voluntary participation, and freedom from platform lock-in.
ClearID is the Digital World standard for:
- Identity
- Identifiers
- Cryptographic control
- Key rotation
- Recovery
- Delegated authority
- Verifiable credentials
- Credential lifecycle
- Issuer authority
- Presentation
- Verification
- Long-term identity continuity
ClearID provides the common identity foundation used across the LIFE Stack.
It is designed for individuals, organizations, devices, services, applications, and digital agents.
No.
Digital World does not require identity control, credential issuance, verification, communication, or every LIFE Stack layer to depend upon a blockchain.
A distributed ledger may be used where appropriate for a particular capability, but no ledger is the exclusive root of identity or trust.
Digital World is a broader integrated standard, not a blockchain-specific architecture.
SEDI stands for State-Endorsed Digital Identity. It is Utah's implementation profile for trusted digital identity within the broader Digital World framework.
SEDI defines how the state, approved credential issuers, service providers, and individuals can participate in a common identity ecosystem while ensuring that each person remains in control of their identity and personal data.
The SEDI profile establishes requirements for:
- Member-owned and controlled identity
- State-endorsed digital credentials
- Approved, accountable issuers and verifiers
- Privacy and consent by design
- Selective disclosure of only the information required
- Portable wallets and credentials
- Provider neutrality and interoperability
- Secure recovery and credential lifecycle management
- Long-term credential verification
- Technical, legal, and governance conformance
The state endorses the trust framework and participating providers. It does not own or control the individual's identity.
Digital World prevents vendor lock-in through technical and governance requirements. A conformant implementation should support:
- Openly documented interfaces
- Portable identifiers
- Portable credentials
- Data export
- Wallet migration
- Independent verification
- Provider replacement
- Recovery
- Operational exit procedures
- No exclusive vendor-controlled trust dependency
A provider cannot make itself the permanent owner of a member's identity, credentials, or relationships.