FOSDEM 2026 - FOSDEM 2026 Call for Participation

Proposals for developer rooms and main track talks for FOSDEM 2026 can now be submitted!

Introducing the Protocol Institute

Building a field and community to steward the planetary-scale process of protocolization

AT Protocol builder manifesto - WIP, comments wanted!

working title: "Why AT Protocol Will Win: A Manifesto for Building in the Atmosphere"

Taking AT to the IETF - AT Protocol

We recently posted two drafts to the IETF Data Tracker. This is the first major step towards standardizing parts of AT in an effort to establish long-term governance for the protocol.

Why a New Protocol? The History and Future of AT Protocol - AT Protocol

Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee and Head of Protocol Daniel Holmgren join for a wide-ranging conversation about what atproto is, why it exists, how it got built, and where it's going next. From a Twitter consultancy to an IETF working group, this is where to get started.

FOSDEM 2026 - Local-First, sync engines, CRDTs

Room: K.3.201 Calendar: iCal, xCal Chat: Join the conversation!

#protocolsforpublishers #atproto #mcp #webapplets | Chad Kohalyk

Web publishing is facing its next challenge: a new iteration of centralizing platforms. BUT there is also a new wave of open protocols and standards that can help us gain our independence. Next month in NYC we are gathering a group of frontier technologists and popular web publishers to discuss how we can sail into this next platform shift as captains. #ProtocolsForPublishers Learn more and sign up here: https://pfp.unternet.co We will be hosting talks on #atproto #mcp #webapplets and web payments, and give publishers the opportunity to interact directly with developers working on these frontier technologies. Thank you to Unternet, Graze Social, Free our Feeds, and betaworks for their support.

Local First Devroom at FOSDEM 2026

FOSDEM 2026 new devroom: Local First, sync engine & CRDTs We are very excited to share with you the Call for Participation of the new Local First devroom at FOSDEM 2026, which upcoming edition will ...

[FOSDEM] Browser and Web Platform Devroom at FOSDEM 2026: Call for Participation

Protocol Reader - Summer of Protocols

The Protocol Reader The Protocol Reader is an 358-page book (currently only available as an epub) comprising 26 foundational essays by 31 authors from the Summer of Protocols program, carefully edited and sequenced to introduce you to the fascinating new discipline of Protocol Studies. It can serve as

Protocol Reader - Summer of Protocols

In the Fall of 2022, the word protocol was suddenly everywhere. The proximal cause was obvious: fueled, in part, by the highly visible and fractious change of ownership at Twitter, large numbers of people began heading for the exits. Most of them, of course, were just looking for

The 2026 MCP Roadmap

The updated Model Context Protocol roadmap for 2026: transport scalability, agent communication, governance maturation, and enterprise readiness, plus guidance on SEP prioritization and how to get involved.

Inventing New Nature

Defining the Protocol Institute's research mission

FOSDEM 2026 - Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future

Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same.

The 2026-07-28 Specification

The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification is out, bringing a stateless protocol core, Multi Round-Trip Requests, header-based routing, cacheable list results, authorization hardening, a formal extensions framework, and updated Tier 1 SDKs.