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…

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.

mitchellh/vouch

A community trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate.

LinkedTrust — Deep Tech. Human Trust.

Verified trust systems, civic tech platforms, and AI-powered tools. Real projects, real impact.

Funding Challenges and the Future of Our Work

Over the past two years Independent Federated Trust and Safety (IFTAS) has provided crucial support to independent, decentralised social media moderators, administrators, and community managers. Ou…

Web of Trust - Vertrauen durch echte Begegnungen

Dezentrales Vertrauensnetzwerk für lokale Gemeinschaften. Menschen vernetzen sich basierend auf echten Begegnungen statt Algorithmen.

Web of Trust Info

Shared repositories for #RebootingWebOfTrust Design Workshops - Web of Trust Info

Open-source tools needed for the future of decentralized moderation

A small list of various open-source software that needs to exist to power the future of Trust & Safety for decentralized social networking software.

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.

MeritRank: Sybil Tolerant Reputation for Merit-based Tokenomics*

Decentralized reputation systems are emerging as promising mechanisms to enhance the effectiveness of token-based economies. Unlike traditional monetary incentives, these systems reward participants based on the actual value of their contributions to the network. However, the advantages and challenges associated with such systems remain largely unexplored. In this work, we investigate the inherent trade-offs in designing a decentralized reputation system that is simultaneously generalizable, trustless, and Sybil-resistant. Specifically, “generalizable” means that the system can assess various types of contributions across different contexts, “trustless” indicates that it functions without the need for a central authority to oversee reputations, and “Sybil-resistant” refers to its ability to withstand manipulations by fake identities, i.e., Sybil attacks.

Scaling trust on the web

The Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web's report on gaps and opportunities for how the next generation of online spaces will be built.

Weave

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

Weave

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

Build Community Online with Decentralized Tools | Blacksky

Decentralized tools to build community online. The intercommunal net where communities govern, pool funds and stay safe on their own terms.

Build Community Online with Decentralized Tools | Blacksky

Decentralized tools to build community online. The intercommunal net where communities govern, pool funds and stay safe on their own terms.

The Fourth Theory of Agent Trust: Emergence - Astral's Blog