'Members' of OpenLibra Disavow Project Days After Its Devcon Unveiling

Four individuals and organizations have disavowed the OpenLibra project, which was unveiled Oct. 9 at Devcon.

Outside of Aggarwal, representatives from Chainlink, Web3 Foundation and Hashed have told CoinDesk their names were used without their permission on the OpenLibra slide deck presented at Devcon.

The OpenLibra project aims to ensure that access to the Libra stablecoin and its technology remains free from corporate control.

Lucas Geiger, the founder of the OpenLibra project, has since apologized for the oversight.

Geiger has not confirmed which of the 30 listed individuals and organizations announced on Wednesday were "Potential partners" and which were actual confirmed partners of the OpenLibra project.

CoinDesk has received direct confirmation from nine individuals affirming their involvement in the OpenLibra initiative.

They are: ethereum developer Lane Rettig, Singapore University of Technology and Design Ph.D. student Barnabe Monnot, Democracy Earth founder Santi Siri, Tendermint director Zaki Manian, Iqlusion founder Tony Arcieri, Vulcanize founder Rick Dudley, BlockScience founder Michael Zargham, SUTD professor Georgios Piliouras and HiveOnline founder Sofie Blakstad. Each said they are contributing individually to the OpenLibra project for now, without specifying whether their affiliated organizations would contribute in the future.

As for Vulcanize's Rick Dudley, OpenLibra is a project he may or may not continue to work closely with due to "Complex conflicts of interest."

Regardless, Dudley told CoinDesk that having his name featured on the OpenLibra site without his express permission was not all that surprising.

The OpenLibra site has since taken down all the names of its "Contributors" and updated the website.