| Version | Date | Description | Link |
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| 1.0 | 2025-10-10 | First version | ‣ |
| 1.1 | 2025-10-10 | Updated |
This governance specification and associated documents MUST be available in American English. The Governing Authority MAY evaluate localized versions of documents on a case-by-case basis.
Governance of the Stockist Pathway and its operational framework is overseen by the HAT Community Foundation (HCF) - ****the governing body responsible for ensuring trust, compliance, and ecosystem integrity across Dataswyft Wallet-powered environments.
This document is a blueprint that outlines the core components of the stockist pathway in the scheme, including credential schemas, role definitions, scoring mechanisms, and validation processes. These are underpinned by Dataswyft Wallets and Kuza-issued VLEI-signed credentials, creating a governed infrastructure for the transformation of data to self-sovereign (smart) data, secure data sharing, event verification, and role-based scoring. Together, they support a scalable, trusted foundation for credit access and logistic network participation.
The HAT Community Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that regulates personal data transactions within the ecosystem of Personal Data Accounts (PDAs). It governs the deployment, standards, and operation of the HAT Microserver network, operated by Dataswyft under licence. The HAT Community Foundation ensures that Dataswyft adheres to the governance principles and technical rules it defines.
Founded to extend governance beyond traditional regulatory frameworks and “above borders”, the HAT Community Foundation champions self-sovereign data ownership - recognizing personal data as a new class of individual asset, “above borders” of national jurisdictions. The Foundation also stewards the open-source software that powers the HAT Microserver and leads continued research and development in ethical data infrastructure.
For more information, please visit the foundation website.
Dataswyft Network (Dataswyft Sdn Bhd) is the administrating authority for the pathway blueprint. Contact information for Dataswyft may be found on the company website.
The objective of the Stockist Pathway Blueprint is to establish a trusted, data-flow pathway that enables parties in the agriculture sector to participate in the pathway. By combining verifiable credentials, decentralized data control through Dataswyft Wallets, and role-specific scoring systems, the pathway creates a portable and privacy-preserving identity and data layer for financial and operational inclusion that is interoperable across systems. Governed by the HAT Community Foundation, the system ensures integrity, transparency, and fairness through real-time credentialing, event tracking, and performance-based scoring. This framework empowers participants - data providers, agripreneurs, finance providers, and service providers - to engage with confidence in a secure, governed environment that supports credit access and logistic network participation.
Developed in line with Dataswyft’s Smart Data architecture and governance principles, this Blueprint sets the rules on how Dataswyft Wallets, verifiable credential schemas, and dynamic scoring systems unlock inclusive, data-driven access to finance. By setting the rules on trusted identities and transparent performance tracking, the model aims to strengthen accountability and trust across the agricultural supply network.
This governance specification defines the roles, responsibilities, and operational boundaries of the Stockist Pathway in the Agriculture Smart Data Scheme. The framework distinguishes between Controlled and Uncontrolled Roles to ensure robust governance and operational integrity.
Controlled Roles include: