This article critiques the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) initiative, highlighting its missteps in establishing effective open standards. Key issues include a lack of community involvement, poor governance, and failure to acknowledge existing systems, which undermine trust and participation.

Union is a zero-knowledge infrastructure layer designed for efficient message passing, asset transfers, NFTs, and DeFi, operating without reliance on trusted third parties. It supports interoperability with Cosmos and EVM chains, and governance is decentralized to align with the needs of its users and validators. Developers can build and manage various components using Nix for reproducibility across different environments.