Open Legal Publishing Network
An open protocol for legal identity
OLPN is a document-format protocol for publishing identity, verifiable credentials, and digital property ownership for legal professionals and organizations. Decentralized. Every entity publishes at a domain it controls. No central registry.
Why OLPN?
Ownership
Your identity hub lives on your domain. No platform lock-in, no centralized gatekeepers.
Transparent Verification
Identity is verified through linked, machine-readable relationships across the web. Instant and automatic.
Open Publishing
Publish using open standards. Your data is interoperable and portable across any compliant platform.
Community Collaboration
Built in the open. Contribute to the protocol, propose schemas, and shape legal identity together.
Built for the legal ecosystem
Legal Professionals
Claim your identity and publish verifiable credentials without middlemen.
Bar Associations
Issue verifiable attestations and modernize member directories with cryptographic proof.
Developers
Build on open standards. Integrate resolution, verification, and publishing into your apps.
Policy Makers
Explore how decentralized identity improves transparency in legal practice.
Explore the documentation
What is OLPN?
One-page introduction to the protocol, the documents, and what verification means.
The three document types
Entity, property, and credential documents, and how they link to each other.
Quickstart: publish an entity
Stand up an OLPN identity on your domain in under an hour.
Schema reference
Every field, every type, every document, flat on one page.