The Meta-Layer Already Exists. We're Just Naming It.

🌍 What Is the Meta-Layer?

You’ve seen it in tools like:

• 🖊️ Hypothesis – social annotation overlays

• 🛍️ Honey – discount code auto-applications

• 🔐 Password managers – interface injection

• 🤖 AI sidebars – real-time summarization and Q&A

These are early fragments of a meta-layer—tools that float above webpages, adding value, context, or utility.

The difference?
We’re building a composable, open, participant-centered meta-layer—a system anyone can build on, not a silo or extension.

A meta-layer is a shared digital space that exists above the content of a webpage—an interaction and computation environment that responds to what you're looking at, but is not owned by the site itself.

How the Meta-Layer Works

The Meta-Layer is:

• Triggered by attention — what you’re focusing on

• Built as an overlay — it doesn’t replace the web, it enhances it

• Made of small, meaningful apps — annotations, tools, badges, tags

• Tied to people, not platforms — presence, identity, community

And it works because your browser already supports this kind of layered interaction. We’re just making it interoperable and programmable—for all of us.

Why It Feels Familiar—But Is Different

Unlike extensions or widgets that are locked to a platform, the meta-layer is:

• Interoperable → it works across websites and domains

• Compositional → apps and features stack and interconnect

• Public and accountable → not ad-driven or surveillance-based

• Community-owned → presence, tagging, and trust are built by people, not algorithms

It’s the next environment layer for the web.
Where web2 added interactivity, and web3 added value—the meta-layer adds meaning.

What a Meta-Layer Unlocks

Discover how a meta-layer transforms browsing into real-time collaboration, shared presence, and value exchange.

See What Becomes Possible Above the Web

Unlock the Principles Behind the Protocol

Openness, sovereignty, simplicity, interoperability—learn the foundational properties being defined by the community.

Your Perspective Belongs in the Protocol

Whether you’re technical or not, you can help shape what the web becomes. Share your vision, use case, or frustration.

Help Define AI Ethics and Containment

A meta-layer can govern how AI behaves across the web. Join the effort to embed transparency, oversight, and safety into the next layer.