Community engagement
Memberships & Community
Tyche Institute takes part in open standards work, trust-infrastructure consortia, and open-source projects as an independent, non-profit research association. This page records current memberships, appointed roles, and participation; prospective or pending ones are marked as such.
Research networks and appointed roles
COST Action · National appointment
CA25178 — Agentic Physical AI Network (API-Net)
Anton Sokolov, affiliated with Tyche Institute, accepted Estonia's nomination to the Action Management Committee on 11 August 2026. The Action connects research and practice around embodied, goal-directed AI and runs from 9 October 2026 to 8 October 2030.
This is an individual national-representative appointment. It is not organisational COST membership, a grant award, employment, certification, or an endorsement of Tyche Institute. The public COST roster has not yet synchronised Estonia's appointment.
Appointment accepted 11 August 2026.
Industry and consortium membership
European Commission · AI
Apply AI Alliance
The European Commission's stakeholder alliance supporting the Apply AI Strategy. Tyche Institute is registered in the Alliance's stakeholder catalogue, which is a self-registration and is not publicly viewable.
Registered July 2026.
Consortium · PKI
PKI Consortium
Industry consortium on PKI operations, certificate transparency, and post-quantum cryptography. Tyche Institute is an approved member and takes part in the consortium's regular member meetings.
Member since June 2026.
Project · Linux Foundation
Trust Over IP (ToIP)
A Linux Foundation project developing interoperable digital-trust infrastructure. Tyche Institute is a Contributor (ToIP agreement signed June 2026; Linux Foundation onboarding completed July 2026) and takes part in the project's member meetings.
Contributor since June 2026.
Foundation · Decentralized identity
Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)
A foundation developing interoperable specifications for decentralized identity and verifiable credentials. Tyche Institute is a Contributor (Contributor agreement executed June 2026), which admits it to DIF Working Groups.
Open Project · OASIS
Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI)
An OASIS Open Project on AI security. Tyche contributes to Workstream 3 (AI Security Risk Governance): the project's individual contributor agreement is signed, and Tyche has filed contributions to the workstream's risk-map repository — a proposal to register eIDAS 2.0 as a mappable framework (#391) and an adversarial-corpus risk reference (#392).
Contributor since June 2026.
Foundation · Linux Foundation
Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)
A directed fund of the Linux Foundation hosting open agentic-AI projects, including the Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose, AGENTS.md, and agentgateway. Tyche Institute's Associate Member application (the free tier for non-profit and academic organisations) is under review.
Application under review, July 2026.
Internet measurement and operations
Measurement network · Internet operations
RIPE Atlas
Tyche Institute hosts public RIPE Atlas software probe 1016856 on its Zeus1 research server in Helsinki. The probe contributes active Internet measurements, and Tyche uses RIPE Atlas and RIS public data for reproducible routing, reachability, and dual-stack research. This is RIPE community participation and does not represent a claim of RIPE NCC membership or LIR status.
Probe connected since August 2026.
Open-source projects
Project · Attestation
Veraison
An open-source project building attestation-verification components. Tyche follows the project's weekly public community meeting and filed an issue in its public tracker (veraison/services#427).
Foundation · Linux Foundation
Open Wallet Foundation
Open-source infrastructure for digital credentials and wallets. Tyche follows the community's working-group discussions.
Community · Data exchange
X-Road Community
The open community around X-Road, the open-source data-exchange layer maintained by the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS). Tyche participates in the community's Slack — open to anyone — in support of its X-Road research (the X-Road AI Evidence Lab and the XATF carrier-binding work), including a practitioner survey run with the community.
Research and recognition
Community · Standards
AI Standards Hub
A community for tracking and discussing AI standards across technical and governance forums. Tyche holds a free community account.
Registry · Digital Public Goods
Digital Public Goods Alliance
The institute's open-source Obscure AI evidence atlas has been submitted to the DPGA for Digital Public Good review. The application is under review.
Application under review, June 2026.
Standards bodies
Tyche's posture toward the standards bodies relevant to cryptographic AI attestation — CEN-CENELEC JTC 21, ETSI TC ESI, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42, and IETF SCITT — is observer-level and, for the European committees, prospective: it depends on membership in the Estonian mirror committee (EVS/TK 82), where Tyche's June 2026 application was not approved at this stage — the committee asked for a longer track record of field activity — and a reconsideration request is pending. In the meantime Tyche uses individual and observer routes: it participates in the OpenID Foundation Digital Credentials Protocols Working Group under its contribution agreements, and co-authors individual Internet-Drafts in the IETF RATS and SCITT space. It also intends to follow the IEEE 8000 working group on trustworthiness of artificial intelligence through the open-observation route that the IEEE SA Standards Board Bylaws (§5.2.1.2, entity method) extend to any entity that is not an IEEE SA Entity Member. Tyche has not attended a meeting of that group, is not a working-group member, has no vote, and does not receive draft standards. An account of each channel — together with the community and industry groups Tyche has joined (the W3C Credentials Community Group and the Decentralized Identity Foundation) — is on the Standards page.
Public repositories
Zenodo. Open-access deposits of working papers and evidence at zenodo.org/communities/tyche-institute ↗ .
GitHub. Open-source code and research artifacts at github.com/tyche-institute ↗ .
RePEc. Tyche serves a RePEc archive for the RePEc:tyc series (tycarch.rdf, tycseri.rdf). The series is not yet indexed by IDEAS or EconPapers, so the RePEc:tyc handle does not yet resolve there.
How we participate
Tyche takes part in these communities as an independent, non-profit research association — contributing time and expertise, not selling services, products, or certifications. Competing interests are declared in every working paper. See the Governance page for the institute's conflict-of-interest stance and the boundaries it does not cross.