The Seven Rules of Trust is a book by Jimmy Wales written with Dan Gardner and published by Crown Currency and Bloomsbury on October 28, 2025. The book presents Wikipedia co-founder Wales's view on how to mend division in society through the building of trust in seven rules, which serve as subheadings in the book.
On Trust Infrastructure Trust underpins civilisation. It expands the scope and complexity of the pursuits within our collective reach by allowing us to act as a…
Trust Revolution
Unfiltered conversations with builders, thinkers, and operators in Bitcoin and beyond. Exploring systems we trust, why they work (or don't), and what's next.
mitchellh/vouch
A community trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate.
Trust & Safety Library - Trust & Safety Professional Association
Welcome to the Trust & Safety Library! We use this space to collect articles, blog posts, journal articles, lectures, podcasts, and websites that trust and safety professionals may find useful in developing policies, supporting moderators, building systems to detect violations, and generally deepening their practice. We welcome your submissions and feedback. This project was initially
Web of Trust - Vertrauen durch echte Begegnungen
Dezentrales Vertrauensnetzwerk für lokale Gemeinschaften. Menschen vernetzen sich basierend auf echten Begegnungen statt Algorithmen.
The rules to make the rules
My journey to understand blockchain political systems continues.
Comprehensive Sociocracy Books - Sociocracy For All
Sociocracy Books from Sociocracy For All: books to learn about circle structure, better meetings, consent decision making.
Welcome to the Web of Trust
Empowering individuals to co-create decentralized systems for lasting mutual benefit.
Four Functional Quadrants for Trust & Safety Tools: Detection, Investigation, Review & Enforcement (DIRE) <div> <br> </div>
Public discourse and regulatory debates about online trust and safety have long been dominated by a focus on rules, not tools: preoccupied mostly by the questio
Trust Over IP - Defining a complete architecture for Internet-scale digital trust
The Trust over IP Foundation is defining a complete architecture for Internet-scale digital trust that combines both cryptographic trust at the machine layer and human trust at the business, legal, and social layers.
Encryption + Trust & Safety reading list (updated 2026-05-20)
Composable Trust, Part 2: Separating Trust from Governance - Eclectic Corvine Muses
”Who belongs” and “What belonging means” are different questions. What happens if one steward stops answering both?
The Fourth Theory of Agent Trust: Emergence - Astral's Blog
The Relational Origins of Rules in Online Communities
Where do rules come from in online communities? This study investigates how and why online communities adopt and change their rules. We conducted a grounded theory-based analysis of 40 in-depth interviews with community leaders from subreddits, Fandom wikis, and Fediverse servers, and identified seven processes involved in the adoption of online community rules. Our findings reveal that, beyond operational reasons like regulating behavior and solving problems, rules are also adopted and changed for relational reasons, such as signaling or reinforcing community legitimacy and identity to other communities. While rule change was often prompted by challenges during community growth or decline, change also depended on volunteer leaders' work capacity, the presence of member feedback mechanisms, and relational dynamics between leaders and members. Our findings extend prior theories from social computing and organizational research, illustrating how institutionalist and ecological explanations of the relational origins of rules complement operational accounts. Finally, we build on these explanations to offer a set of design propositions that reflect the relational aspects of rules and rulemaking across communities' lifecycles.
Trust & Safety Tycoon
Manage your team, set policies, make investments, and tackle the challenging world of Trust & Safety
Web of trust
In cryptography, a web of trust is a concept used in PGP, GnuPG, and other OpenPGP-compatible systems to establish the authenticity of the binding between a public key and its owner. Its decentralized trust model is an alternative to the centralized trust model of a public key infrastructure (PKI), which relies exclusively on a certificate authority. As with computer networks, there are many independent webs of trust, and any user can be a part of, and a link between, multiple webs.
