Desirable Properties Studio · Public beta. Pads learn from your confirms and choices (with consent), not silent profiling. Version 0.77 is open for review. Version 1.0 of The Layered Web and the public launch of DP Studio are September 16, 2026.
Invitation to weigh in
Project Liberty Institute
Institute colleagues: we need your research and policy record in the properties, not a paraphrase of a press release.
Project Liberty Institute is named as the home of research, policy engagement, and DSNP stewardship with academic partners. This page is a request: does our reading of that public mandate line up with how you actually work? We will adjust the pitch as you correct it.
Point us at papers, hearings, and protocol notes we should treat as corpus. Then weigh in on the DPs below, especially where civic memory, transparency, and community AI governance are still too thin.
If research stays outside the rule-set, commercial products will write the defaults. Help us encode what you already know before that happens.
Scored for capabilities, reach, productivity, and impact. Own layer and partner layer both appear when the packet supports them.
Collaborative · Impact
Co-sign a Minimum Permissible Affordance on data agency
Draft an MPA in the Institute's language: people can export identity and social graph they created here. Ask partners to co-sign, then file it toward an ML-REQ on Gov Hub.
Hypothesis until sources are confirmed.
Impact is a public claim made testable. This org already states people should own and control personal data.
Open a collaborative layer with Project Liberty, Project Liberty Labs, Georgetown University, Stanford University, and ETH Zurich
Invite the partners already named in this packet into a shared layer plus guild. Shared tags and bridges let communities meet without forcing a single login or feed.
Hypothesis until sources are confirmed.
Reach compounds only when named partners share a layer. Hermes will not invent partners you did not list or confirm.
Create a Gov Hub / Canopi stewardship container for Project Liberty Institute and run the first overlay on a public page you already control. Vicariance (sandbox before scale) keeps this from becoming a population-wide experiment on day one.
Hypothesis until sources are confirmed.
Cited mission: “Advance research, policy engagement, and stewardship of open-source initiatives including the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), in collaboration with academic institutions.” Own-layer work is the smallest way to extend capability without leaving that mission for a captured platform.