Your Foundation
for Universal Data Infrastructure
The UOR Foundation is a global community hub dedicated to developing open source standards and technologies that enable user ownership and control of decentralized data infrastructure.
What is UOR?
Universal Object Reference (UOR)
What if every piece of data on the internet, including every website, API, AI model, or configuration file, could be referenced, trusted, and composed like code?
Universal Object Reference (UOR) makes this possible.
UOR is an open source data system that reimagines the internet as a single, structured and composable dataset. It treats everything as an object. Each is uniquely identified by a cryptographic hash and described by its intrinsic attributes, such as size, media type and content digest, rather than by location.
This Rosetta Stone for data changes the paradigm.
Instead of chasing data by where it lives, you access it by what it is. The result is secure, deterministic, and interoperable across systems.
The outcome is a universal layer for decentralized, serverless and composable infrastructure. It invites developers, researchers and architects to help build the next foundation of the internet.
Discover how UOR unlocks a new era of limitless applications. Build by you.
Why build with UOR?
UOR provides you a unique foundation for building novel protocols and applications that require context-awareness, verifiable trust, and semantic interoperability.
Serverless Infrastructure
Cut costs by running on your own Virtual Private Infrastructure (VPI) instead of renting multi-tenant stacks. UOR’s VPI executes every app in a verifiable, user-controlled environment that eliminates cloud egress fees, strengthens data sovereignty, and makes security and portability standard. No servers, databases, or DevOps to manage, and no vendor lock-in.
- ✓Sovereign by design: applications run on infrastructure you (or your users) fully own and control.
- ✓Verifiable at every step: mathematical and cryptographic proofs ensure integrity.
- ✓Portable anywhere: consistent, reliable execution across all environments.
- ✓Compliance ready: GDPR, localization, and sovereignty compliance with full audit trails.
Universal Language
Save time with data that keeps its meaning wherever it goes. UOR’s universal data language makes every object self-describing, carrying schema, units, and provenance so integrations stay predictable and transformations stay verifiable. No bespoke adapters, no semantic drift.
- ✓Unambiguous by design: globally unique, content-aware references remove conflicts.
- ✓Interoperable everywhere: a common grammar compiles to native shapes (SQL, JSON, Protobuf, WASM) without loss.
- ✓Self-describing objects: embedded types, constraints, and behavior enable automatic validation and safe composition.
- ✓Provenance and auditability: cryptographic lineage and diffable versions make every change traceable and reversible.
Limitless Applications
Delight users with modular apps that feel seamless across devices and providers. With UOR, each capability is a reusable module that plugs in cleanly, runs in a user-controlled environment, and evolves without breaking flow. No rewrites, no brittle glue code.
- ✓Composable by default: assemble features as plug-in modules that interoperate predictably across systems.
- ✓Cross-vendor federation: combine services from different providers while preserving security and data ownership.
- ✓Portable experiences: run the same app in browser, mobile, cloud, or edge with consistent behavior and performance.
- ✓Future-proof extensibility: swap or upgrade components safely, with provenance, versioning, and full audit trails.
UOR Applications
Community-led innovations beyond our imagination.
Privacy-preserving model training
Patient-owned medical records
Low latency edge computing
Meet UOR Community
Get to know the researchers, developers, and visionaries building the future of universal data infrastructure, protocols and applications.
Alex Flom
Chief Scientist @ UOR
Tirath Virdee
Chief Scientist @ Xenesis
Kat Morgan
Engineer @ Cisco
Mateusz Tobola
Product Manager @ Stealth AI Startup
Ilya Paveliev
Founding Partner @ Arete Capital
Bill Wright
Chief Architect @ Red Hat
Emmanuel Bello
Founder @ Kinetic Keys
Adam de Delva
Founder @ DTR
David Kypuros
Solutions Architect @ Red Hat
Dan Simmerman
Founder @ Mintify
Ryan Westerberg
Engineer @ Peoplevine
Matt McKibbin
Founder @ DecentraNet
Max Phelps
Engineer @ Maitai (YC S24)
Lucio
Founder @ AiresAI
Jimmy Danella
Alternative Medicine
UOR Communities Projects
Explore the innovative projects, protocols and applications built by our community using UOR principles and technologies.
Join Your Community
Connect with researchers, developers, and enthusiasts working on the future of universal data representation across three key areas.
Mathematics
Explore the mathematical foundations of UOR, including prime number theory, universal representation, and the mathematical proofs that ensure data integrity.
- Prime factorization algorithms
- Mathematical verification methods
- Universal representation theory
Protocols
Develop and implement communication protocols, data exchange standards, and interoperability frameworks that enable UOR adoption across systems.
- Network communication standards
- Data exchange protocols
- System interoperability
Applications
Build real-world applications using UOR principles—from data integrity systems to context-aware platforms that demonstrate the framework’s potential.
- Data integrity applications
- Context-aware systems
- Proof-of-concept implementations
Blog Highlights
Stay up to date with the latest insights, research, and developments in the UOR ecosystem.