Ripple, XRPL Labs join Algorand Foundation as founding members of Decentralized Recovery Alliance

Ripple and XRPL Labs have joined forces with the Algorand Foundation and Swirlds Labs to become founding members of the Decentralized Recovery (DeRec) Alliance. As a founding member, DeRec will serve on the Technical Oversight Committee for two years and contribute to governance and policy development, DeRec said in a blog announcement today.

We are pleased to announce this @ripple and @XRPLAbs I signed up @swirldslabs and @Algo Foundation As a founding member of the Decentralized Recovery Alliance, I have served for two years on the Technical Oversight Committee, providing input on governance and core Alliance policies. #derek… pic.twitter.com/APP4Z70jIC

— DeRecAlliance (@DeRecAlliance) May 9, 2024

HBAR Foundation, Hashgraph Association, Acoer, BankSocial, Blade Labs, The Building Blocks, Casper Association, Constellation Network, and Revive Labs have become DeRec members. DeRec said it will help create new interoperability recovery standards to drive recovery and adoption of digital assets.

Initially launched by members Hedera and Algorand, the DeRec Alliance’s mission is to simplify digital asset recovery, making it as user-friendly as the Web2 experience.

Recovering your current cryptocurrency can be complicated. Alliance wants to make it as simple as recovering your online account. This will be especially helpful for new users who may be discouraged by the complexity of Web3.

DeRec Alliance is developing an open source protocol designed to help users recover lost digital assets such as secret keys, passwords, and seed phrases. By facilitating the recovery of secret keys, passwords, and seed phrases in a fully decentralized manner, the protocol ensures the confidentiality and security of personal data.

The Alliance hopes that all blockchain companies will adopt this standard, making recovery easier across the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem.

“The DeRec Alliance is a group of individuals and organizations dedicated to making the process of protecting and recovering digital assets, accounts, passwords and other secrets as simple as the traditional Web2 experience,” said Leemon Baird, Ph.D., Hedera co-founder.

RippleX’s Markus Infanger expressed Ripple’s commitment to the Alliance’s goals. He also emphasized the importance of user-friendly private key management.

“The DeRec Alliance addresses one of the biggest challenges facing mainstream cryptocurrency adoption: secure and user-friendly management of private keys,” Infanger said. “Together, we can transform the way users manage their private keys, which represents a significant step forward for user security and adoption, not just for XRP Ledger users, but for everyone in the cryptocurrency industry.”

As mentioned, alliance members, including Acoer and BankSocial, are adopting DeRec standards and practices to enable access to decentralized recovery. They contribute to policy and oversee the development of DeRec-based solutions, and some have already integrated the protocol into their systems.

The DeRec Alliance represents a collaborative effort to overcome digital asset self-management and recovery challenges, with the goal of providing peace of mind to users and promoting mainstream adoption of digital assets.

“Broader mass adoption of digital assets and Web3 technologies requires improved user experience and interoperability. DeRec’s innovative and democratized approach is a huge step forward, and we are excited to be a part of this evolution,” said Shayne Higdon, co-founder and CEO of the HBAR Foundation.

“We are excited to join this alliance as we recognize the opportunity for a greater level of interoperability across chains and a significantly improved user experience that will enable mainstream adoption of token holdings,” said Ralf Kubli, Senior Director of the Casper Association. “I am delighted.”