Ripple and XRPL Labs Join Hedera and Algorand Ecosystems As Founding Members of DeRec Alliance

Ripple and XRPL Labs join Swirlds Labs and the Algorand Foundation as founding members of the DeRec Alliance.
Hedera and Algorand Ecosystems Join Forces to Form DeRec Alliance, Enabling Mass Market Decentralized Recovery

Entities from across the Hedera and Algorand ecosystems, including the HBAR Foundation, Algorand Foundation, the Hashgraph Association, Swirlds Labs, the DLT Science Foundation, and industry partners The Building Blocks and BankSocial have partnered to develop an open standard for the protection and recovery of secrets.
What is Decentralized Recovery?
Decentralized Recovery (DeRec) is a novel method that safeguards a user’s secrets (a list of passwords, a blockchain account key, grandma’s spaghetti recipe, etc) in a way that they can be recovered in case the original records of them are lost or forgotten.