generated: '2026-07-20' method: searched source: >- SEC EDGAR (CIK 0001975931, Bloom HoldCo LLC), github.com/hellobloom repository archive dates, npm publish dates, live DNS/HTTP probes of bloom.co status: discontinued summary: >- Bloom's developer surface is fully wound down. The public SDK repositories were archived in 2021, the hosted API and documentation hosts no longer resolve, the bloom.co domain is listed for sale with a broker, and Bloom HoldCo LLC filed a Form 15-12G on 2025-08-14 terminating registration of the BLT token (holders of record: none) alongside an 8-K terminating the token Terms & Conditions. The npm packages under @bloomprotocol remain installable but are unmaintained. current_version: null versioning_policy: none published deprecation_policy: none published sla: none published status_page: url: https://status.bloom.co/ status: offline note: >- A Statuspage-hosted page existed historically (status.bloom.co/api/v2/status.json appears in Internet Archive crawls) but the host no longer resolves. No StatusPage pointer is wired into apis.yml because there is no live status page. timeline: - date: '2017-09-06' event: Bloom Ltd. formed under the laws of Gibraltar. source: SEC Form 10-12G (Bloom HoldCo LLC) - date: '2017-11-14' event: >- BLT token sale begins; sales to purchasers run through 2018-01-02. Bloom launches as a decentralized identity attestation and credit scoring protocol on Ethereum and IPFS (BloomID, BloomIQ, BloomScore). source: SEC Form 10-K FY2023 - date: '2017-12-27' event: Bloom HoldCo LLC organized in Delaware as holding company for Bloom Ltd. source: SEC Form 10-12G - date: '2020-04-14' event: Bloom announces a partnership with TransUnion for consumer credit monitoring. source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/oluwaseunadeyanju/2020/04/14/bloom-partners-with-transunion-to-bring-consumer-credit-data-to-blockchain/ - date: '2021-01-05' event: attestation-kit repository archived on GitHub. source: https://github.com/hellobloom/attestation-kit - date: '2021-05-14' event: >- Bulk archival of the public developer surface on GitHub — share-kit and all its platform wrappers (react, vue, angular, ios, android, flutter, xamarin, reactnative), receive-kit, verify-kit, waci-kit-react, vc, vc-data, attestations-lib, tx-service-pub, bloom-starter and bloom-credential-playground were all archived the same day. This is the effective end-of-life of Bloom's published integration SDKs. source: https://github.com/hellobloom - date: '2022-06' event: Founding CEO departs (served from inception in 2017 until June 2022). source: SEC Form 10-K FY2023 - date: '2023-03-04' event: bloom-vault (the end-to-end encrypted data storage service) last updated; marked DEPRECATED. source: https://github.com/hellobloom/bloom-vault - date: '2023-05-11' event: Ryan D. Faber appointed interim CEO and Manager of Bloom. source: SEC Form 10-K FY2023 - date: '2023-06' event: >- SEC settlement — Bloom agreed to pay a $0.3M penalty plus a springing penalty of up to approximately $30.9M if it fails to complete the BLT claims and registration processes, and to register BLT under the Exchange Act. source: SEC Form 10-K FY2023 - date: '2023-12-21' event: >- FY2023 Form 10-K filed. No revenue from operations for the year ended 2023-09-30; net loss of approximately $4.1M; auditors include a going-concern explanatory paragraph citing substantial doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern. Filing states BLT "no longer has any other uses or functionalities on our Platform" and that Bloom is "no longer maintaining or supporting the BLT." source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1975931/000121390023097443/f10k2023_bloomhold.htm - date: '2024-02-04' event: BLT claims process Claim Form Deadline. source: SEC Form 10-K FY2023 - date: '2024-08-14' event: >- Final Form 10-Q filed (quarter ended 2024-06-30). No revenue from operations for the nine months ended 2024-06-30. source: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001975931 - date: '2024-11-12' event: '@bloomprotocol/vc-data 0.1.61 published — the last first-party npm release.' source: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bloomprotocol/vc-data - date: '2025-01-23' event: Form NT 10-K filed (notification of late annual report filing). source: SEC EDGAR - date: '2025-03-07' event: Form NT 10-Q filed (notification of late quarterly report filing). source: SEC EDGAR - date: '2025-03-04' event: ssi-sdk repository last pushed — the last first-party source activity of substance. source: https://github.com/hellobloom/ssi-sdk - date: '2025-05-15' event: Second Form NT 10-Q filed. No periodic report follows. source: SEC EDGAR - date: '2025-08-14' event: >- Form 8-K — Bloom published amended Terms & Conditions Relating to Token Sale permitting the company to terminate them in their entirety at its sole discretion by notice on its website. source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1975931/000121390025076644/ea0253359-8k_bloom.htm - date: '2025-08-14' event: >- Form 15-12G filed — certification and notice of termination of registration of the BLT Token under Section 12(g), relying on Rule 12g-4(a)(1), with approximate number of holders of record stated as "none". This is Bloom's final SEC filing. source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1975931/000121390025076665/ea0253374-1512g_bloom.htm - date: '2026-07-20' event: >- Probed by the API Evangelist enrichment pipeline. bloom.co resolves but 302-redirects every path to a MediaOptions broker listing offering the domain for sale; docs.bloom.co, api.bloom.co, status.bloom.co and bloomprotocol.com do not resolve; hellobloom.io has been sold and redirects to an unrelated site. DNS for bloom.co still carries Bloom's own SPF/DMARC records (support@bloom.co, Help Scout, Customer.io, Mailgun, SendGrid), indicating the domain remains under Bloom's control while listed for sale. source: live probe discontinued_surfaces: - surface: BloomID / BloomIQ / BloomScore protocol APIs status: offline note: api.bloom.co no longer resolves. - surface: Developer documentation status: offline note: docs.bloom.co no longer resolves; no Internet Archive snapshots available. - surface: Status page status: offline note: status.bloom.co no longer resolves. - surface: BLT token (ERC-20) status: unsupported note: >- Registration terminated 2025-08-14; company states it no longer maintains or supports BLT, and no voting or governance functions remain. - surface: share-kit / receive-kit / verify-kit / attestation-kit integration SDKs status: archived note: GitHub repositories archived 2021-01-05 and 2021-05-14. surviving_surfaces: - surface: '@bloomprotocol npm packages' status: unmaintained-but-available url: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=%40bloomprotocol note: 19 packages remain installable. See packages/bloom-packages.yml. - surface: github.com/hellobloom status: live url: https://github.com/hellobloom note: >- Organization is live and verified with 40 public repositories, most archived. ssi-sdk (2025-03) and qr (2026-02) show the most recent activity. - surface: bloom-vault self-hosted data registry status: deprecated-open-source url: https://github.com/hellobloom/bloom-vault note: >- Open-source reference implementation of an end-to-end encrypted data registry with a documented HTTP API (POST /auth/request-token, POST /auth/validate-token, GET /data/me, GET|DELETE /data/:start/:end, POST /data), specified in spec.md. Self-hostable; Bloom operates no instance. Marked DEPRECATED by the maintainers. - surface: Downstream forks of Bloom's cryptographic suites status: actively-maintained-by-third-parties note: >- Blockcerts, MediBloc and Sphereon publish maintained forks of Bloom's EcdsaSecp256k1 signature and verification-key libraries. See packages/bloom-packages.yml.