TrustProtocols

Verifiable identity, provenance, accountability, and intent, engineered into every interaction.

Digital ecosystems are becoming increasingly autonomous.
AI agents act on our behalf.
Systems make decisions without direct input.
Data crosses organisational and regulatory boundaries at speed.

But today’s digital environments lack the trust primitives that make human systems safe:

• Who acted?

• Why did they act?

• Are they authorised?

• Is the action legitimate?

• Can it be verified?

• Who is accountable?

TrustProtocols fix this, unlocking flow and high-performance.

TrustProtocols are the digital and systemic trust standards of the Verisum Trust-Stack™.
They embed verifiable trust, identity, provenance, and delegated intent into the core of digital interactions and intelligent systems.

TrustProtocols are a suite of standards that enable safe, controlled, high-trust performant ecosystems, even in autonomous or multi-party environments.

They define:

1. Identity

Who or what is acting — including humans, systems, and AI agents.

2. Intent

Why the action is being taken — and whether the agent is authorised to take it.

3. Provenance

Where the action came from — and how it has been transformed over time.

4. Delegated Authority

Whether actions taken by AI or agents correctly reflect human-anchored consent.

5. Accountable Execution

Traceable, verifiable behaviour grounded in TrustOS™ primitives.

TrustProtocols

HAPP: Human-Anchored Provenance Protocol

Full-Stack Digital Trust Standard

HAPP is a protocol for anchoring identity, provenance, and delegated intent across AI, digital, and blockchain systems. It provides:

• verifiable human authorship

• provenance of AI-derived or AI-modified outputs

• integrity and tamper-evident state transitions

• delegated authority traces for automated actions

• compliance-grade auditability

Outcome:
A provable chain of identity, intent, and provenance for every digital interaction, human or machine.

Identity & Delegated Authority Standards

Who is acting, and what are they authorised to do?

This standard establishes verifiable identity for humans, systems, and AI agents — paired with clear definitions of the authority they possess. It enables:

• trustworthy agent-based systems

• safe delegation of tasks to AI

• permissioned actions & revocation control

• cross-platform identity coherence

• accountability for automated decisions

Outcome:
Digital systems that know who is acting and whether they have the right to act — the foundation of safe automation

TrustProtocols™ deliver verifiable trust across digital ecosystems by defining three foundational standards.

HAPP delivers the full stack.

The Identity & Delegated Authority and Intent & Provenance Standards provide modular trust components that organisations can adopt independently for specific use cases, from AI agent permissions to content provenance and regulatory auditability.

Each can be used independently or together, depending on the trust requirements of the system.

Intent & Provenance Standards

Why the action happened, and where it originated.

This standard ensures every digital action has a verifiable chain of reasoning, origin, and transformation, allowing systems to operate with transparent and traceable integrity. It enables:

• content and data provenance

• audit trails for AI-generated outputs

• transparent decision reasoning

• traceable multi-agent interactions

• integrity guarantees for digital artefacts

Outcome:
Systems that can prove why something happened and how it evolved, essential for governance, risk management, and public trust.

What's included

• Digital ecosystem builders

• AI platform & product teams

• Autonomous agent developers

• Blockchain & protocol designers

• Regulated markets & financial networks

• Media, research, and content authenticity systems

• Public-sector agencies requiring provenance & auditability

Who can benefit

• Trust primitives specification

• Protocol reference models

• Integration & interoperability patterns

• Safeguards for AI alignment & oversight

• Governance & auditability frameworks

• Domain-specific standards (HAPP, Identity, Intent, Provenance, Delegated Authority)

• Access to early technical previews (selected partners)

This is not a security add-on.
It is a systemic trust framework engineered for safe automation and scalable digital performance.

Anywhere digital interactions must be reliable, verifiable, and safe, TrustProtocols apply.

Build trust into the foundation of your digital ecosystem.

TrustProtocols provide the standards.
Verisum helps you apply them with confidence.