What is the Meta-Layer Initiative?

The Meta-Layer Initiative is a global collaboration to build a connective digital layer—a living infrastructure that bridges isolated technologies, empowers communities, and fosters open innovation.

It’s not just a platform.
It’s a movement toward a more interoperable, equitable digital future—one that starts by defining the Desirable Properties of the Meta-Layer.

Together, we’re designing the next level of the web.

📊 Where We Are Now

20 Desirable Properties Identified
6 Categories
150+ Ideas Contributed
300+ Property Extensions
50+ Contributors

🌟 The Foundations We're Building

In our kickoff meeting, Vint Cerf recommended that we write an Essay on the Desirable Properties of a Meta-Layer

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The Use Cases of a Meta-Layer

What becomes possible when a connective layer lives above the webpage? Presence, interaction, contextual knowledge, and collective action—without replacing the open web.

The Desirable Properties of a Meta-Layer

What must the next layer of the internet protect, enable, and empower? We’re co-creating a public framework of values, safeguards, and capabilities.

The Call for Input

The Meta-Layer isn’t being handed down. It’s being built with the people who will live in it.
Your ideas, your questions, and your visions are the blueprint.