A New Chapter for CKB
Today, we’re announcing the establishment of the Common Knowledge Base Association (CKBA): a Swiss Verein registered in Baar, Switzerland, created to serve as the new coordination layer for the CKB ecosystem.
This marks the natural progression of the Nervos Foundation into a more durable, participatory, and contributor-driven structure.
The people, the mission, and the commitment to CKB remain the same.
What changes is the structure around that work.
For years, the Foundation model helped steward CKB through a period of regulatory uncertainty, where separation between the network, its founders, contributors, and coordinating entities was necessary.
That distance served an important purpose: it gave CKB room to mature as neutral and resilient public infrastructure.
Over time, however, it also became a source of operational friction.
Today, the circumstances have changed.
Both CKB and the broader regulatory landscape have matured, creating the opportunity to bring the teams and people who have spent the last eight years contributing to CKB into a more aligned structure.
CKBA is that structure.
It is a membership-based, contributor-driven non-profit association with two membership tiers:
- General Members can participate in the Association’s activities and meetings.
- Contributing Members have formal governance rights, including voting and electing the Board.
Importantly, this does not change CKB itself.
CKB remains a permissionless and neutral network governed by its own PoW consensus rules and maintained by independent participants across the ecosystem.
CKBA does not own or control CKB. Its role is to support contributors and improve coordination around CKB’s long-term development, adoption, and resilience.
If you have been contributing to CKB, join us 👇
This is not a reinvention of CKB.
It is the next stage in its evolution.
Read the full announcement on Nervos Talk: https://talk.nervos.org/t/a-new-chapter-for-ckb-introducing-the-common-knowledge-base-association/10249
