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The Immanent Trust Protocol

A Post-Consensus Architecture for Decentralized, Observer-Relative Trust

April 2026 · ~90 minutes · Björn Kenneth Holmström (with AI collaboration: Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, Gemini)
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Core Contributions

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Informal Trust Ledger

Local, observer-relative trust graphs — no global state required

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Trust Independence Metric

Mathematically collapses Sybil rings regardless of size

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Trust Shock Propagation

Endorsers have skin in the game — penalties cascade backward

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Scale-Adaptive Fields

Ephemeral coordination that auto-dissolves via cryptographic TTL

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