







Part Seven: The four trust network effects in a two-sided market for trust.
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…
The Fourth Theory of Agent Trust: Emergence - Astral's Blog
Inverting the physics of trust
Common Fabric is a social computing lab building a medium for software that revolves around people, not apps.

mitchellh/vouch
A community trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate.
Welcome to the Web of Trust
Empowering individuals to co-create decentralized systems for lasting mutual benefit.

LinkedTrust — Deep Tech. Human Trust.
Verified trust systems, civic tech platforms, and AI-powered tools. Real projects, real impact.

Weave
Weave is accelerating the interoperability of the internet's missing trust layer. True community portability. Trust that travels.
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.

The Evolution of Trust
an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other
Media and Social Capital
We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Guided by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital—from social and political participation to interpersonal trust—in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media technologies hinges on their content (information versus entertainment), their effectiveness in fostering coordination, and the networks they create as well as on individual characteristics and media consumption choices.

Web of Trust - Vertrauen durch echte Begegnungen
Dezentrales Vertrauensnetzwerk für lokale Gemeinschaften. Menschen vernetzen sich basierend auf echten Begegnungen statt Algorithmen.

Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
Trust and Faith in Our Web
I’m not Brennan, but I’m very interested in decentralization and a fan of AtProto specifically, so I’d like to weigh in. First I should mention I’ve personally never been able to get into microblogging, so I haven’t touched bluesky myself, despite having an account for ATProto reasons. But I agree it’s concerning that the company chooses to continue to host the content of harmful individuals and calling that act “neutral”. I’m certainly against the idea of the “marketplace of ideas” as it’s cle...

Why 83% of organizations reportedly trust open source with their most sensitive assets
There is now an increasing trust in open source alternatives to take organizations where they want to go for their IAM and token requirements.

Beyond the blank slate: Why Black women’s trust is critical for equitable AI | Brookings
Zarah Guillemet and Raj Korpan discuss preliminary research on Black women's trust in AI and implications for policymakers.
