VCN is live
Published on April 11, 2026 by Veydrin Admin
The Veydrin Community Network is no longer a specification. It's running. On real devices. Signing real packets. Moving real data between people, with no company in the middle and no server that can be pulled out from under the people who depend on it.
VCN is the Order's answer to a simple question. How do communities stay connected when the infrastructure they were told to trust disappears? Natural disaster. Network outage. Political pressure. Platform shutdown. The answer can't be "trust a bigger company." The answer has to be a protocol that works peer-to-peer, holds its integrity under adversarial conditions, and doesn't need permission from anyone to function.
What it does. Devices find each other over Bluetooth, WiFi Direct, the internet, or QR codes when nothing else is available. Every packet is signed with an Ed25519 identity. Direct messages are end-to-end encrypted with X25519 and AES-256-GCM. Community posts and organization broadcasts propagate across the mesh automatically. No servers are required. No accounts are required. No permission is required.
Apiara v2 is the first full implementer
Apiara v2.0 ships with the full VCN stack wired in. Beekeepers in the same apiary can now sync inspection data, pollinator observations, and forage records directly between phones over Bluetooth, with no internet connection and no third-party cloud. Remote beekeepers can mirror the same data through a unified Tier 3 bridge when they want to. The mesh also carries direct messages, community bulletins, surplus listings, and offers of help. All signed. All auditable. All yours.
Apiara v2 also adds Flit, an optional AI assistant that answers context-aware questions about your apiary without ever sending your notes, photos, or personal data to anyone. It uses your own API key and it never stores credentials. Private, honest, and useful, the way assistive tech should have been from the start.
Omnavar v1.0 is a new free tool for nonprofits
Omnavar is a free, offline-first desktop tool that does everything the three-thousand-dollar-a-year grant management SaaS platforms do, and keeps your data on your machine. Intelligent grant discovery with document-based scoring. Drag-and-drop pipeline. Encrypted document vault. Budget builder with narrative generation. Funder profiles with relationship notes. Federal registration tracker (SAM.gov, UEI, audit). Deadline calendar. Reports dashboard with win rate, funding conversion, and pipeline velocity. Accounting exports for OFX, QuickBooks, and 990 Schedule B. Multi-provider AI drafting (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) with your own API key.
If you know a nonprofit, faith-based organization, or community group that can't justify another SaaS subscription, pass them the link. Windows, Linux, macOS. AGPL-3.0 licensed. Download from codeberg.org/Veydrin/omnavar/releases.
Ojarim integrates with Apiara
Ojarim, the world's largest open pollinator atlas, now accepts citizen submissions directly from Apiara via the OHDS protocol. Beekeepers logging pollinator and forage observations contribute to the global dataset with one tap. Ojarim's 78-species master list powers real-time autocomplete on Apiara's submission forms. One data flow, end to end, no middlemen. Every submission is a git commit on the public ojarim-data repo.
Teaveya and Digorix
Teaveya continues shipping clean at v1.0. Still the privacy-first tea blending app with zero Android permissions and 252 ingredients. Digorix is at v1.6 with ongoing content and accessibility work on the interactive dinosaur dig site explorer. Both free. Both open. Both yours to fork.
Four specs moved forward with the code
None of this ships without the unglamorous work of writing, publishing, and defending open protocols. In the same push:
- VCN Protocol Spec v1.1. Org founder identity. Formalized channel patterns (_dm, _org_{slug}, _sync_). Universal BLE service ID so any two VCN devices can find each other regardless of affiliation.
- VRS v1.0 finalized. Test vectors with real Ed25519 signatures. Two conformance profiles. Dual proof types. Written threat model. GDPR section. Governance model.
- OHDS v1.1. Three new record types: harvests, pollinator observations, forage observations. Section 13 documents how to extend OHDS with additional types.
- VODS v1.0 extended. New application provenance and organization attribution fields (source_app, source_app_version, contributor_org).
Every spec lives publicly at veydrin.codeberg.page/protocols. Read them. Implement them. Fork them. Improve them. None of this belongs to the Order exclusively. It belongs to anyone willing to build with it.
Under the hood: api.veydrin.org
Backing all of this is a unified api.veydrin.org server that now handles VRS signature verification, VCN Tier 3 bridging with WebSocket sync, OHDS submissions with automatic routing by record type, species auto-mapping against Ojarim's master list, organization registration, and AI proxying for bring-your-own-key setups. A single Node.js process. Fully open source. You can read every line.
What comes next, and how to help
If you're reading this as a backer, this release is what your dollars paid for. Thank you. Every recurring contribution goes directly into shipping the next version, defending the next spec, and keeping all of this free for the next person who needs it.
If you're reading this as a first-time visitor, now is a good moment to join. There is a new $50 per month Anchor tier sitting between Steward and Pillar for anyone who wants a middle ground for sustaining the work, and every level from $5 a month up makes a real difference.
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