Mutual credit systems have had working ledgers for ninety years. What they lack is verifiable membership, enforceable rules and standing that travels between groups — which is exactly what a Verifiable Trust Community provides. A design note on how the two fit together.

Every screen in the VTA browser plugin is a trust task executed on the fly. The agent holds all the state, the UI holds none, and any designer can build a new skin without touching the backend

Solid proved that people can own their data. The Decentralized Trust Graph, with signed credentials and data rooms, carries that idea the rest of the way

After a year of listening and learning, we found the missing piece of the decentralized trust graph — and a new reason it matters more than ever