OB1
OB1 was the venture-backed company that built and stewarded OpenBazaar, a fully decentralized, peer-to-peer marketplace protocol for buying and selling goods and services directly between users using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, with no central platform, listing fees, or intermediaries. Founded on the earlier OpenBazaar project and funded in 2015 by Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, OB1 developed the OpenBazaar desktop and mobile clients, the underlying protocol built on IPFS and Bitcoin, and hosted supporting services. OB1 announced the closure of its servers on 15 January 2021 and the company is no longer operating; this profile is retained for historical and portfolio-graph completeness. The open-source code remains publicly archived under the OpenBazaar GitHub organization.
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How we profile OB1
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for OB1. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for OB1 — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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