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 # <p><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/1371a4807ead74c36ea7d5af909064ec491b78c1/collateral/Hyperledger_Aries_Logo_Color.png" height="50px" alt="Hyperledger Aries">Framework Go</p>
 
-Hyperledger Aries Framework Go enables trusted communication and data exchange based on interoperable distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) and peer-to-peer (P2P) interactions.
-We provide a flexible toolkit to enable the usage of decentralized identifiers (DIDs), DID-to-DID communications, verifiable credential exchange, transaction authorizations, and data communication protocols. From these building blocks, implementors can build agents, mediators and other DIDComm features in a manner that is agnostic to a particular DID network or governance framework.
-
-## Aries Framework Go Extensions
-
-This repository contains extension modules for [Hyperledger Aries Framework Go](https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go).
-
-## Contributing
-Found a bug? Ready to submit a PR? Want to submit a proposal for your grand
-idea? Follow our [guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information
-to get you started!
-
-## License
-Hyperledger Aries Framework Go is licensed under the [Apache License Version 2.0 (Apache-2.0)](LICENSE).
-
-Hyperledger Aries Framework Go [documentation](docs) is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
+Aries Framework Go has been archived. The BBS code has been extracted to [Aries BBS Go](https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-bbs-go).
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