Democratic institutions increasingly rely on verifiable digital trust to enable fair participation and evidence-based decisions. Truvry is a decentralized protocol that converts behaviour-based evidence (usage patterns, transaction integrity, peer attestations) into portable cryptographic proofs that remain independent of any single platform or identifier, allowing individuals to transfer trust capital across domains while preserving privacy. The current prototype is zero-knowledge–compatible; in this version we use hashed proof anchoring and field-level redaction (no zk-SNARK module is deployed), with configurable smart-contract verifiers. By decoupling trust from identity, Truvry widens citizen inclusion, mitigates gatekeeping bias, and supplies auditable inputs for AI-mediated governance. In prototype tests (n=112), end-to-end proof issuance averaged 3. 7 s (fastest local 1. 4 s), verifier parse+check averaged 1. 8 s, and the current minimum anonymization entropy is 8. 9 bits; gas costs for optional on-chain anchoring remained below US0. 02. All results are based on simulated user streams; a production pilot is planned.
Akhileshwar Pathak (Sun,) studied this question.