Key Standards & Protocols
BIP-44 (HD Wallet Derivation Paths)
The standard derivation path enabling one seed to generate keys for all cryptocurrencies — concentrating power that CLAVI deliberately disperses.
Definition
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 44, building on BIP-32's hierarchical deterministic key derivation, defines a standardised path structure for deriving keys: m/purpose'/coin_type'/account'/change/index. This path convention enables a single master seed to generate separate key trees for every supported cryptocurrency, with distinct accounts and change addresses. BIP-44 is the reason a single 24-word phrase can control Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other assets simultaneously — concentrating power that CLAVI's distributed architecture deliberately disperses.