Ekayana Research
Notes on research infrastructure
Long form writing on identifiers, content addressing, and the cryptography underneath them. Mostly worked examples, occasionally an argument, and a standing preference for saying what does not work yet.
14 essays·4h 34m of reading·longest 36 min
Introducing Bio-DID-Sequencer: Decentralized Identifiers for Research Data
What Bio-DID-Sequencer is, what it does with W3C identifiers and IPFS, and where the boundaries of the current implementation are.
Read the essay- Author
- Sneha Priya
- Published
- 15 Dec 2025
- Length
- 8 min read
Everything else
- 01Technical
Inside the Solana DID Registry: One Identifier Primitive from Student to Consortium
A deep dive into the bio-did-registry program - how two thousand lines of Rust on a global immutable chain close the identifier gap between individuals, universities, and pharmaceutical research.
Suraj Kumar
12 Jan 202622 min read - 02Research
The Future of Scientific Data Sovereignty: Why Decentralization Matters
FAIR tells you what research data should look like. It says nothing about who holds the keys - and that omission is where most data is actually lost.
Sneha Priya
22 Dec 202514 min read - 03Security
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Securing Research Data for the Next Century
How ML-DSA-87 and other post-quantum algorithms protect sensitive research data against future quantum computing threats.
Suraj Kumar
18 Dec 202516 min read - 04AI/ML
Knowledge Graphs and Scientific Discovery: Connecting the Dots in Research
How semantic knowledge graphs enable breakthrough discoveries by revealing hidden connections across millions of research papers.
Ankita Choudhary
12 Dec 202518 min read - 05Technical
Deep Dive: UCAN Authorization for Research Collaboration
Explore how User Controlled Authorization Networks enable secure, decentralized permission management for collaborative research projects.
Suraj Kumar
10 Dec 202512 min read - 06Technical
The Content Addressing Revolution: How CIDs Are Transforming Data Integrity
What a content identifier actually guarantees, what it does not, and why that distinction matters more than the marketing around it.
Suraj Kumar
08 Dec 202515 min read - 07Compliance
GDPR Compliance in Decentralized Storage: A Practical Guide
How to maintain GDPR compliance while leveraging the benefits of IPFS and Filecoin for research data storage.
Suraj Kumar
05 Dec 202510 min read - 08Research
Solving the Reproducibility Crisis: Immutable Data Infrastructure for Science
Infrastructure fixes one cause of irreproducibility and leaves the larger ones untouched. Being clear about which is which is the point.
Suraj Kumar
01 Dec 202520 min read - 09AI/ML
BioAgents: AI-Powered Knowledge Extraction for Research Papers
Discover how our AI agents automatically extract metadata, identify entities, and build knowledge graphs from research documents.
Ankita Choudhary
28 Nov 20257 min read - 10Technical
Verifiable Credentials in Academic Research: From Degrees to Data Provenance
How W3C Verifiable Credentials are transforming academic credentialing, peer review, and research data attribution.
Suraj Kumar
25 Nov 202517 min read - 11Tutorial
Depositing to Dataverse from Ekayana: What the Bridge Actually Does
The integration runs from Ekayana into Dataverse, not the other way round. What each endpoint does, which two credentials it takes, and the operations that do not exist.
Antra
20 Nov 202510 min read - 12Technical
Building on Protocol Labs: Our Technology Stack Explained
Which Protocol Labs components the platform actually depends on, which are optional, and what each one is doing.
Suraj Kumar
15 Nov 20259 min read - 13Security
RSA, Elliptic Curves, Lattices?
A worked comparison of the three families that secure the internet - the hard problems underneath, why key sizes differ by orders of magnitude, how derivation really works, and what a quantum computer does to each.
Suraj Kumar
11 Nov 202536 min read
Arguing with any of this is welcome
Corrections land faster than praise does. The registry program and the DID method are both open, so the fastest way to disagree is with a diff.