Blockchain GovernanceInitiative Network (BGIN)What is BGIN?
An open and neutral sphere for all stakeholders to deepen common
understanding and to collaborate to address issues they face in order
to attain sustainable development of the blockchain community.
Regulators

Consumers

BGIN
Open source style EngineersBusiness23 Initial Contributors (tentative)• Jeremy Rubin• Julien Bringer (Kallistech)• Brad Carr (Institute of International Finance) • Danny Ryan (Ethereum Foundation)• David Ripley (Kraken)• Michele Finck (Max Planck Institute forInnovation)• Nat Sakimura (OpenID Foundation)• Kazue Sako (Sovrin Foundation)• Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Institut MinesTélécom / Institut Polytechnique de Paris)• Mai Santamaria (Ireland Department ofFinance)• Byron Gibson (Stanford Center forBlockchain Research)• Yuji Suga (CGTF)• Shigeya Suzuki (BSafe.network / Keio
• Hui Li (Huobi Blockchain Academy)
University / WIDE Project / BASE alliance)• Philip Martin (Coinbase)• Yuta Takanashi (Financial Services Agency,• Shin’ichiro Matsuo (BSafe.network /Georgetown University)• Jumpei Miwa (Financial Services Agency,JAPAN)• Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School)• Nii Quaynor (Ghana Dot Com Ltd)JAPAN / ex-Georgetown University)• Robert Wardrop (Cambridge Center for
Alternative Finance)• Pindar Wong (VeriFi (Hong Kong) Limited)• Aaron Wright (Cardozo Law School)

Engineers• Jeremy Rubin• Julien Bringer (Kallistech)• Brad Carr (Institute of International Finance) • Danny Ryan (Ethereum Foundation)• David Ripley (Kraken)• Michele Finck (Max Planck Institute forInnovation)• Nat Sakimura (OpenID Foundation)• Kazue Sako (Sovrin Foundation)• Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Institut MinesTélécom / Institut Polytechnique de Paris)• Mai Santamaria (Ireland Department ofFinance)• Byron Gibson (Stanford Center for
Blockchain Research)• Yuji Suga (CGTF)• Shigeya Suzuki (BSafe.network / Keio
• Hui Li (Huobi Blockchain Academy)
University / WIDE Project / BASE alliance)• Philip Martin (Coinbase)• Yuta Takanashi (Financial Services Agency,• Shin’ichiro Matsuo (BSafe.network /Georgetown University)• Jumpei Miwa (Financial Services Agency,
JAPAN)• Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School)• Nii Quaynor (Ghana Dot Com Ltd)JAPAN / ex-Georgetown University)• Robert Wardrop (Cambridge Center for
Alternative Finance)• Pindar Wong (VeriFi (Hong Kong) Limited)• Aaron Wright (Cardozo Law School)

Regulators and Government• Jeremy Rubin• Julien Bringer (Kallistech)• Brad Carr (Institute of International Finance) • Danny Ryan (Ethereum Foundation)• David Ripley (Kraken)• Michele Finck (Max Planck Institute forInnovation)• Nat Sakimura (OpenID Foundation)• Kazue Sako (Sovrin Foundation)• Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Institut MinesTélécom / Institut Polytechnique de Paris)• Mai Santamaria (Ireland Department ofFinance)• Byron Gibson (Stanford Center for
Blockchain Research)• Yuji Suga (CGTF)• Shigeya Suzuki (BSafe.network / Keio
• Hui Li (Huobi Blockchain Academy)
University / WIDE Project / BASE alliance)• Philip Martin (Coinbase)• Yuta Takanashi (Financial Services Agency,• Shin’ichiro Matsuo (BSafe.network /Georgetown University)• Jumpei Miwa (Financial Services Agency,JAPAN)• Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School)• Nii Quaynor (Ghana Dot Com Ltd)JAPAN / ex-Georgetown University)• Robert Wardrop (Cambridge Center for
Alternative Finance)• Pindar Wong (VeriFi (Hong Kong) Limited)• Aaron Wright (Cardozo Law School)

Academia• Jeremy Rubin• Julien Bringer (Kallistech)• Brad Carr (Institute of International Finance) • Danny Ryan (Ethereum Foundation)• David Ripley (Kraken)• Michele Finck (Max Planck Institute forInnovation)• Nat Sakimura (OpenID Foundation)• Kazue Sako (Sovrin Foundation)• Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Institut MinesTélécom / Institut Polytechnique de Paris)• Mai Santamaria (Ireland Department ofFinance)• Byron Gibson (Stanford Center for
Blockchain Research)• Yuji Suga (CGTF)• Shigeya Suzuki (BSafe.network / Keio
• Hui Li (Huobi Blockchain Academy)
University / WIDE Project / BASE alliance)• Philip Martin (Coinbase)• Yuta Takanashi (Financial Services Agency,• Shin’ichiro Matsuo (BSafe.network /Georgetown University)• Jumpei Miwa (Financial Services Agency,JAPAN)• Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School)• Nii Quaynor (Ghana Dot Com Ltd)JAPAN / ex-Georgetown University)• Robert Wardrop (Cambridge Center for
Alternative Finance)• Pindar Wong (VeriFi (Hong Kong) Limited)• Aaron Wright (Cardozo Law School)

Blockchain Business and Financial Industry• Jeremy Rubin• Julien Bringer (Kallistech)• Brad Carr (Institute of International Finance) • Danny Ryan (Ethereum Foundation)• David Ripley (Kraken)• Michele Finck (Max Planck Institute forInnovation)• Nat Sakimura (OpenID Foundation)• Kazue Sako (Sovrin Foundation)• Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Institut MinesTélécom / Institut Polytechnique de Paris)• Mai Santamaria (Ireland Department ofFinance)• Byron Gibson (Stanford Center for
Blockchain Research)• Yuji Suga (CGTF)• Shigeya Suzuki (BSafe.network / Keio
• Hui Li (Huobi Blockchain Academy)
University / WIDE Project / BASE alliance)• Philip Martin (Coinbase)• Yuta Takanashi (Financial Services Agency,• Shin’ichiro Matsuo (BSafe.network /Georgetown University)• Jumpei Miwa (Financial Services Agency,JAPAN)• Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School)• Nii Quaynor (Ghana Dot Com Ltd)JAPAN / ex-Georgetown University)• Robert Wardrop (Cambridge Center for
Alternative Finance)• Pindar Wong (VeriFi (Hong Kong) Limited)• Aaron Wright (Cardozo Law School)

Standard, Expert Group and Civil Society• Jeremy Rubin• Julien Bringer (Kallistech)• Brad Carr (Institute of International Finance) • Danny Ryan (Ethereum Foundation)• David Ripley (Kraken)• Michele Finck (Max Planck Institute forInnovation)• Nat Sakimura (OpenID Foundation)• Kazue Sako (Sovrin Foundation)• Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Institut MinesTélécom / Institut Polytechnique de Paris)• Mai Santamaria (Ireland Department ofFinance)• Byron Gibson (Stanford Center forBlockchain Research)• Yuji Suga (CGTF)• Shigeya Suzuki (BSafe.network / Keio
• Hui Li (Huobi Blockchain Academy)
University / WIDE Project / BASE alliance)• Philip Martin (Coinbase)• Yuta Takanashi (Financial Services Agency,• Shin’ichiro Matsuo (BSafe.network /Georgetown University)• Jumpei Miwa (Financial Services Agency,JAPAN)• Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School)• Nii Quaynor (Ghana Dot Com Ltd)JAPAN / ex-Georgetown University)• Robert Wardrop (Cambridge Center for
Alternative Finance)• Pindar Wong (VeriFi (Hong Kong) Limited)• Aaron Wright (Cardozo Law School)

Internet Pioneer• Jeremy Rubin• Julien Bringer (Kallistech)• Brad Carr (Institute of International Finance) • Danny Ryan (Ethereum Foundation)• David Ripley (Kraken)• Michele Finck (Max Planck Institute forInnovation)• Nat Sakimura (OpenID Foundation)• Kazue Sako (Sovrin Foundation)• Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Institut MinesTélécom / Institut Polytechnique de Paris)• Mai Santamaria (Ireland Department ofFinance)• Byron Gibson (Stanford Center forBlockchain Research)• Yuji Suga (CGTF)• Shigeya Suzuki (BSafe.network / Keio
• Hui Li (Huobi Blockchain Academy)
University / WIDE Project / BASE alliance)• Philip Martin (Coinbase)• Yuta Takanashi (Financial Services Agency,• Shin’ichiro Matsuo (BSafe.network /Georgetown University)• Jumpei Miwa (Financial Services Agency,
JAPAN)• Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School)• Nii Quaynor (Ghana Dot Com Ltd)JAPAN / ex-Georgetown University)• Robert Wardrop (Cambridge Center forAlternative Finance)• Pindar Wong (VeriFi (Hong Kong) Limited)• Aaron Wright (Cardozo Law School)

Goals of BGIN
• Creating an open, global and neutral platform
for multi-stakeholder dialogue• Developing a common language andunderstandings among stakeholders withdiverse perspectives• Building academic anchors through continuous
provision of trustable documents and codes
based on open source-style approach

Key Activities• Provides open, global, and neutral fora
• Hosts meetings and events in diverse locations• Outreaches to a variety of stakeholders andworks together with affiliated organizations• Creates material outcomes by rough consensus• Contributes to public policy design andimplementation

How it works
Rough Consensus
andRunning CodeContributions,pull-request, …

BGIN

OnlineDiscussions

In-person
meetings

Publish documents
Technology
Operational
Specifications Specificationand guidance and guidance

Other
documents

Open to all
stakeholders andanyone

Roadmap
March 2020 : Blockchain Global Governance Conference(BG2C) in Tokyo as “Genesis block” of BGIN Declaration of
the establishment of the Network (Today)
Autumn 2020: 1st BGIN meeting “BGIN Block 01”
Early 2021 : 2nd BGIN meeting “BGIN Block 02”

Let’s BEGIN creating healthy
ecosystem by all stakeholders
through BGIN!