A White Paper on the Dataswyft Network Architecture
Version 3.0: Updated 28 August 2026
This white paper sets out the architectural principles underlying the Dataswyft Network and explains how portable trust, accountable interaction and market formation can be achieved without centralising control in a single platform. The architecture separates custody, orchestration and agency, while linking them through a common governance framework implemented through the Dataswyft Wallet.
Wallet Users participate directly or under Delegated Authority on behalf of organisations. Data Providers remain authoritative sources of truth, Badge Issuers establish the rules governing participation, Data Verifiers provide attestations, Merchants and Data Receivers interact with governed Badge Content, and Network Licensees and Technology Providers remain responsible for the infrastructure and services they operate. This separation makes responsibility attributable to the participant that controls, represents or performs the relevant action, while Interaction Records provide auditable evidence of recognised interactions.
At the centre of the architecture is the Badge: a programmable digital governance object that combines verified information with the rules governing its claiming, presentation, validation, sharing and use. Because participants can independently become ready to interact under common rules, ecosystems do not need to be fully coordinated or bilaterally integrated in advance. They can form asynchronously through participation.
The result is an infrastructure in which trust can move with data, governance can be executed consistently, responsibility can remain attributable across multi-party interactions, and new ecosystems and markets can emerge at lower coordination cost.
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