Public stewardship, explicit roles, and review signals that never replace wallet choice.
The Clear Signing initiative is guided by a core steward and developed in collaboration with teams across the ecosystem.
Early groundwork began at Ledger before the initiative broadened across the ecosystem.
Four governance constraints for a shared initiative that should never become a central trust authority.
Standards work, shared infrastructure, and guidance should be coordinated in public so the initiative remains legible and accountable to the ecosystem.
Stewards, maintainers, reviewers, auditors, contributors, and wallets should have distinct responsibilities rather than collapsing coordination and trust into one actor.
Descriptor quality should improve through documented review, independent audit, and visible notes that downstream wallets and users can inspect.
Governance can coordinate processes and publish signals, but it should not prescribe a single trust policy or a mandatory display decision for every wallet.
The initiative can coordinate a common path in public, but responsibility stays distributed across stewards, reviewers, contributors, and wallets.
Maintain the specification and shared infrastructure in public, and keep the common path running.
Independently assess descriptor quality and publish trust signals that wallets may choose to use.
Protocol teams, wallet teams, researchers, and tooling builders who expand coverage and improve implementations.
Decide what to render by combining registry metadata with locally trusted review signals.
Governance coordinates a common path in public; it does not create a single source of truth or override wallet trust policy.
