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SUMMARY:Sujith Nair (Beckn Protocol)
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 ">Beckn: an open source protocol for decentralised transactions</a>\nby Su
 jith Nair (Beckn Protocol) as part of Metagovernance Seminar\n\n\nAbstract
 \nThis is seminar will feature a presentation by Sujith Nair on Beckn\, an
  open protocol for decentralized commerce.\n\n​Beckn consists of several
  specifications for building open e-commerce networks across which sellers
  and their offers are universally discoverable from any Beckn-enabled app 
 or platform. As a protocol\, Beckn is multi-layered\, with layer structure
  and organization resembling that of HTTP.\n\n​The architecture of the B
 eckn ecosystem has five layers (from top to bottom):\n\n​Application lay
 er\n\n​Network and Transaction layer\n\n​Infrastructure and Security l
 ayer\n\n​Certification layer\n\n​Specification and Support layer\n\n
 ​The system has the power to break the silos of proprietary platforms in
  order to enable interoperability of digital services across platforms.\n\
 n​From the paper "Beyond platforms — Growing distributed transaction n
 etworks for digital commerce":\n\n​Context: We talk of the internet as d
 igital infrastructure\; but we leave the building of digital 'rails' and '
 roads' to the quasi-monopolistic platform providers that benefit from both
  vendor and customer log-in. Decentralised architectures provide a number 
 of advantages: They are potentially more inclusive for small players\; mor
 e resilient against adversarial events\, and seem to generate more innovat
 ion. However\, it is not well understood how to evolve\, adapt and govern 
 decentralised infrastructures.\n\n​Objective: This article reports empir
 ical qualitative research on the development and governance of the Beckn P
 rotocol\, an open source protocol for decentralised transactions\, the suc
 cessful development of domain-specific adaptations\, and implementation an
 d scaling of commercial infrastructures based on it. It explores how the a
 rchitecture and governance support local innovation for specific business 
 domains\, and how the domain-specific innovations feed back into the devel
 opment of the core concept.\n
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