The Trust Protocol
Two components. One deterministic outcome. Validation that happens at the exact moment of execution.
The Dynamic Trust Score captures behavioral risk from the user's history. The Modular Trust Engine captures what governance requires. Together, they answer one question: does this user have authority to execute this action, right now?
Core Components
Score Updates
Rule Architecture
Two Components, One Protocol
The Trust Protocol is not a single monolithic engine. It is the convergence of two distinct components, the Dynamic Trust Score and the Modular Trust Engine, each serving a different function but operating together to produce a single, deterministic validation outcome at the moment of execution.
The Trust Score captures who you are and how you've behaved. The Trust Engine captures what the governing entity requires. Together, they answer one question: does this user have the authority to execute this action, right now?
Dynamic Trust Score
A real-time onchain behavior score derived from the user's wallet via the Soulogram. Dynamic by nature, it is recalculated at every point of action.
Modular Trust Engine
Entity-defined rules that validate execution at runtime. Modular across departments, segments, and governance methodologies.
Dynamic Trust Score
The Dynamic Trust Score is a user's onchain behavior score, a continuously updating numerical representation derived from parameters set by the governing entity. Unlike static credit scores or one-time verifications, the Trust Score is inherently dynamic: it recalculates in real time based on the user's onchain behavior, credential status, and delegation chain integrity.
Every time a user initiates an action, their Trust Score reflects not yesterday's state, but the current moment, ensuring that expired credentials, revoked delegations, or behavioral anomalies are immediately captured before execution proceeds.
Identity Verification Status
Current state of onchain identity credentials, whether issued, active, revoked, or expired.
Transaction History & Patterns
Historical and real-time execution behavior across protocols, chains, and settlement contexts.
Credential Validity
Whether presented credentials remain within their validity window and have not been revoked or superseded.
Delegation Chain Integrity
Verification that authority flows through unbroken, currently valid delegation paths.
Policy Compliance Alignment
Conformance with the governing entity's current policy version at the moment of action.
Real-Time Behavioral Signals
Live onchain activity patterns that influence trust state, including velocity, counterparty diversity, and anomaly indicators.
How the Score Updates
Event Trigger
A user initiates a transaction or an action that requires validation. The system captures the current onchain state.
Parameter Evaluation
All scoring parameters are evaluated against the user's live wallet state, credential status, and delegation chain via the Soulogram.
Score Recalculation
The Trust Score is recomputed in real time. The updated score is passed to the Trust Engine for threshold comparison.
Modular Trust Engine
The Modular Trust Engine is built from the inputs defined by a governing entity: the rules that validate execution at runtime. Its modular architecture enables each entity to define governance parameters that vary across departments, business segments, and operational contexts within a single enterprise.
This modularity means that a bank's treasury division, its compliance team, and its institutional onboarding arm can each operate under distinct rule sets, tuned for efficiency, sufficiency, and adherence to both internal governance and external regulatory mandates, while sharing the same deterministic enforcement substrate.
Rule Definition per Entity
Each governing entity defines its own validation rules (compliance thresholds, delegation constraints, and authority scopes) tailored to its operational requirements.
Department-Level Granularity
Rules can vary across departments or segments within a single enterprise: treasury may require stricter thresholds than procurement, reflecting distinct governance and performance methodologies.
Regulatory & Security Enforcement
Both internal governance standards and externally mandated regulations are expressed as engine parameters, enforced uniformly at the moment of execution.
Performance & Efficiency Tuning
Entities calibrate rules not only for compliance but for operational efficiency and sufficiency, ensuring validation is rigorous without introducing unnecessary friction.
Modular Rule Composition
Rules are composable and independently versioned. New governance conditions can be added, modified, or retired without rebuilding the engine or disrupting active enforcement.
Runtime Enforcement
All rules are enforced at runtime, not pre-checked and cached. The engine evaluates conditions at the exact moment of action, eliminating stale-state vulnerabilities.
Engine Input Flow
Define
The governing entity specifies rules: compliance thresholds, delegation depth limits, credential requirements, and policy version constraints per department or segment.
Configure
Rules are loaded into the Trust Engine as composable modules. Each module is independently versioned and can be activated, modified, or deprecated without engine downtime.
Enforce
At the moment of execution, the engine evaluates all active rules against the user's live state, derived from the wallet via Soulverse's Soulogram, and produces a deterministic pass/fail outcome.
Where Score Meets Engine
The Trust Score and the Trust Engine are not independent systems; they converge at the moment of execution. Inputs to the Trust Engine are enforced by the engine and derived from the user's wallet via Soulverse's Soulogram(TM). Together, the Trust Engine and the Trust Score validate or invalidate the authority for a transaction to be executed.
The outcome is deterministic: either the Trust Protocol's combined evaluation meets the threshold (or exact requirement) set by the governing entity, and the transaction proceeds. Or it does not, and execution is blocked. There is no partial compliance. No deferred validation. No post-hoc reconciliation.
Threshold Met
Trust Score meets or exceeds the governing entity's threshold
All Trust Engine rules pass for the applicable department/segment
Credential validity, delegation chain, and policy version confirmed
Transaction is authorized and proceeds to execution
Threshold Not Met
Trust Score falls below the required threshold
One or more Trust Engine rules fail for the applicable context
Credential expired, delegation revoked, or policy version mismatch detected
Transaction is blocked, and execution does not proceed
The Soulogram Connection
The Soulogram(TM) is the bridge between the user's wallet and the Trust Protocol. It is the structured representation of a user's onchain identity (their credentials, delegation chains, behavioral history, and trust state) that the Trust Engine reads at the moment of execution. Without the Soulogram, the Trust Protocol has no inputs. With it, every validation decision is grounded in verifiable, current-state data.