Ripple and XRPL Labs Join DeRec Alliance To Revolutionize Digital Asset Recovery

Ripple and XRPL Labs have become founding members of the new Decentralized Recovery (DeRec) Alliance, an organization focused on a novel method that safeguards a user’s secrets in a way that they can be recovered in case the user loses the original copy of secrets.

“The DeRec Alliance addresses one of the biggest challenges facing mainstream crypto adoption—secure and user-friendly management of private keys,” said Markus Infanger, senior vice president of RippleX.

Ripple and XRPL Labs have teamed up with Algorand Foundation and Swirlds Labs. Together, the companies will hold two-year seats on the Technical Oversight Committee, overseeing governance and policy development, announced DeRec.

“I’m thrilled with the addition of these new members to the DeRec Alliance,” said John Woods, CTO of the Algorand Foundation. “As more and more influential projects join the Alliance, we reach the critical mass required for DeRec to yield its hugely positive impact on the industry.”

We are excited to announce that @Ripple and @XRPLLabs have joined @swirldslabs and @AlgoFoundation as Founding Members of the Decentralized Recovery Alliance, with two-year seats on the Technical Oversight Committee providing input on governance and core Alliance policies. #DeRec… pic.twitter.com/APP4Z70jIC

— Decentralized Recovery Alliance (@DeRecAlliance) May 9, 2024

The full list of the DeRec’s Alliance Members include the HBAR Foundation, the Hashgraph Association, Acoer, BankSocial, Blade Labs, the Building Blocks, Casper Association, Constellation Network, and Revive Labs. They will help create a new interoperability recovery standard to facilitate the recovery and adoption of digital assets, DeRec stated.

“End goal for the DeRec Alliance is to simplify digital asset recovery”

The DeRec Alliance is developing an open-source protocol designed to help users recover lost digital assets such as passwords, secret keys and seed phrases. The members of the alliance hope that this protocol can become the industry standard for all blockchain companies as it will make digital asset recovery smoother across the entire crypto ecosystem.

The end goal for the DeRec Alliance is to simplify digital asset recovery, ensuring a smooth experience for Web3 users akin to the user friendliness of Web2. Right now, recovering crypto can be an extremely complicated process and the DeRec members claim to want to make it as simple as recovering an online account.

Partnering companies will be adopting DeRec standards and practices to make decentralized recovery accessible. Furthermore, they will assist with policy creation and oversee the development of DeRec solutions, with a number of the members already integrating the protocol into their systems.

“Digital asset self-custody can revolutionize asset ownership and value exchange, but terrible user experience and the risk of permanent loss remains a challenge. By pioneering integration with the DeRec protocol and working closely with the Alliance, we aim to bring this innovation to the masses,” said Sami Mian, Co-Founder and CEO, Blade Labs.

The DeRec Alliance is attempting to represent a joint effort from a number of industry leaders in order to overcome the existing challenges of digital asset self-custody and recovery.

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