Seven years after incorporation, we have eventually put together a proper Public Annual Report intended for the wider community and the rest of the world to read. It is not a mandatory artefact but one we've been keen to make available for transparency to our community. Obviously, as a Community of Interest Company incorporated in the UK, we have certain reporting obligations towards the government, which we have fulfilled appropriately since day 1. We have also been sharing progress, news and activities with the community through various blogs (like the seasonal Matrix Holiday Special), Matrix Lives, talks, etc, but so far there hadn't been a structured published report gathering detailed updates on the activities of the various teams in the Foundation, high level financials and the plan for the future.
So here we go, you now have in your hands the very first Public Annual Report of The Matrix.org Foundation for the financial year 2025! As a first edition the format may need some iteration, but we have written it with very specific goals in mind.
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Today’s release of Matrix 1.18 brings a total of 16 MSCs to the protocol. Many of those proposals improve Trust & Safety in Matrix, introducing features like invite blocking, policy servers, account suspension & locking, and general quality of life improvements to the reporting APIs. This blog post covers those safety features in a bit more detail - read on to the full changelog at the bottom for full details of everything in Matrix 1.18.
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Solidarity Social, a Bluesky community based on use of the Solidar App and Solidar personal data server (PDS), is combining the AT Protocol and Matrix open standards to offer Bluesky users an app with end-to-end encrypted direct messages. It intends to be a hub within Bluesky for people building solidarity and organising action for progress on social justice, human rights, human dignity and democracy.
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Today we are publishing The Matrix.org Foundation’s first trademark policy. As a foundation we believe that everyone should have control over their own communications and that secure communication should be available to everyone as a free and open standard. We exist to act as a neutral custodian for the Matrix protocol and to ensure that it operates as an unfragmented standard, which benefits the whole ecosystem. If the Matrix ecosystem is thriving everyone benefits, from people using Matrix for their daily conversations to companies building products on Matrix.
A big part of our work as custodians is ensuring that there is clarity in sources of information and services, in which trademark protection plays a big role. Our aim with this trademark policy is to help people understand if a product claiming to be compatible with the protocol is actually compatible, and if a specific product or service is officially supported by the Foundation.
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