DIF Labs began operating with a beta cohort in November, and has identified three projects to start. The idea, according to an announcement by DIF, is to support project-based innovation to bridge the gap between the standards development process, which is slow due to consensus and governance requirements and the incubators and accelerators that can help get projects off the ground, but come with a cost in equity. The first three projects DIF Labs is taking on are a Bitcoin ordinals verifiable credentials framework, linked claims for disaster recovery validation and a protocol for anonymous personhood verification called “VerAnon.”