The substrate is permissionless to write, so mutually-hostile validator cohorts — state, religious, dissident, sub-cultural — can all post. No single foundation credentialises enemies.
§ 02Readers compose verdicts via CPML — a user-owned Consensus Profile Markup Language file. The protocol does not pick a verdict; the user's CPML does.
§ 03Hybrid architecture: blockchain (Base L2) for settlement and permanent record; federation of aggregators for fast, edge-cached, per-CPML reads.
§ 04Economics close through AI-lab grounding fees, certificate subscriptions and investigation commissions. Validators earn 60–70%; no advertising; no equity.
Blockchain coordinates mutually-distrustful parties. Federation composes known actors at speed. The protocol needs both — chain in the cold path, federation in the hot path.
Plural verdicts are meaningful only if they admit actors who believe each other to be evil and lying. A protocol that credentialises only validators sharing foundation norms is single-frame with inclusive marketing.
No foundation can credentialise mutual enemies neutrally. The write layer must be permissionless. Gate-keeping moves down the stack, to aggregators and consumer-side CPML filters.
A portable, signed, shareable file describing which consensus domains a reader trusts for which topics, with what weights, under what conflict-resolution rules.
Formal model: Value-based Argumentation Framework audiences (Bench-Capon 2003). The reader's signing key is the sole authority on which profile applies — an explicit inversion of the 1996 W3C PICS failure pattern.
Four to six starter CPMLs with published editorial rationale; third-party CPMLs (conspiracy-research, religious-tradition, sub-cultural) are architecturally first-class.
Worked example. A 2030 study cited by a 2031 brief cited by a 2032 news article is retracted in 2033. Under Veritas, every dependent claim is marked CASCADE_PENDING within seconds; AI grounding calls suppress; readers see retraction-pending indicators. None of this happens on the web today.
Cacheable REST API. Per-domain daily snapshots served from edge CDN. MCP-native integration for Claude / Claude-compatible agents.
Public evidence on retrieval-augmented grounding shows measurable reductions in confidently-wrong outputs. The protocol makes that corpus open, signed and canonical — so every AI system can use it, not just those that built their own.
Phase II pilot: one laboratory, one benchmark, published hallucination-reduction delta. Falsification test for the whole AI-grounding thesis.
Parties commission investigations of contested claims; escrow funds on-chain; qualified validators bid or are auto-assigned; validators execute and sign a verdict; escrow releases on completion plus quorum.
Adversaries pay for each other's claims to be investigated. Israeli-aligned and Palestinian-aligned parties, both believing the other false, both fund the mechanism that produces evidence. The protocol records both verdicts honestly.
Investigative journalism finds a new revenue stream: per-case payment from parties with stake.
AI-lab grounding · certificates · user subs · content-producer priority · investigation commissions · donations.
Treasury policy: validator compensation 60–70% · operations 20–30% · reserve 10–15%. Published and auditable.
Swiss Stiftung + Swiss Verein + EU GmbH. MiCA utility-token classification. US 501(c)(3) + Wyoming DAO LLC deferred.
Token drops the burn-for-USDT mechanism at launch (tokenomics recommendation — the single weakest Howey-test link). Pure service-flow utility. Validators compensated in USDT from treasury. If regulatory posture allows, burn may be activated later by governance vote.
→Ideas · 039-seat multi-stakeholder dispute panel: 3 legal · 3 editorial · 2 civil-society · 1 rotating user-community. 3-year terms, geographic distribution, published decisions with dissenting opinions. Panel-independent removal procedure.
→Ideas · 09 · Refusals & panelConsumer quiz ships first. Federated validator network and AI-lab pilot second. Country chapters and own-L1 evaluation third. The protocol is a standard, not an operating platform — exit at any phase costs near-zero.