Continuous Ownership Verification for Software Dependencies

P7/10April 13, 2026

WhatA service that monitors ownership changes of open-source packages, plugins, and libraries across all major ecosystems and alerts dependent projects when a maintainer transfer occurs.

SignalThe attack vector of buying established software with a large install base to inherit user trust is a known, repeatable strategy that currently has no systematic defense across ecosystems.

Why NowSupply chain attacks via acquisition have accelerated dramatically as cryptocurrency has made monetization of backdoors trivially easy, turning plugin acquisition into a profitable business model.

MarketEnterprise DevSecOps teams and managed hosting providers; TAM ~$2B within the broader SCA/supply chain security market; competitors like Socket and Snyk focus on code analysis but not ownership transfer signals.

MoatHistorical ownership graph data across ecosystems becomes a compounding dataset — the longer you track transfers, the more accurate your risk scoring becomes.

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