Participants

Who's on Fabric and what they do.

Fabric is permissionless. If you can speak the protocol, you can join. Participants take different shapes depending on what they do on the network.

Buyers / consumer-side apps

Apps that help users discover, choose, and transact across the network. A ride-hailing app, a savings app, a procurement portal, an agent-driven trading client.

Providers / seller-side apps

Apps that publish offerings and fulfil them. A restaurant, a logistics provider, an energy supplier, a data marketplace, a credentialing authority.

Tokenisation instances

Operators that run a token runtime — central banks, regulated financial institutions, sector operators, hosted services (such as those Lium runs). Each instance speaks the federation protocol and federates value with other instances.

Credential issuers

Authorities that issue verifiable credentials — universities, regulators, professional bodies, certification authorities, employer organisations.

Agents

Autonomous software, with the same rights and accountability as humans and businesses. Read more →

Network facilitators

Organisations that stand up sector-specific or jurisdiction-specific networks on top of Fabric — defining policies, onboarding participants, governing local rules. Facilitators consume Fabric's central services and reference software to launch quickly with predictable compliance.

The NFH Foundation

Operates Fabric's central services (Registry, Cataloguing, Discovery, Observability & Audit anchors), publishes the protocols, and stewards the reference software.