A White Paper on the Dataswyft Technology Infrastructure
Digital societies depend increasingly on the ability to trust data that moves across organisational and jurisdictional boundaries. Yet most digital ecosystems remain constrained by institutional silos, duplicated verification processes, and architectures that require users to surrender their data to centralised platforms. This white paper introduces the Dataswyft Technology Infrastructure: a self-custody architecture designed to enable portable trust and decentralised market formation without centralising power or compromising privacy.
At its core, the architecture separates three functions that traditional systems merge: the custody of data, the orchestration of trust rules, and the agency required to move data lawfully. Individuals and micro-enterprises hold their own portable, high-value data within sovereign HAT Microservers; issuers define credential logic through machine-readable badge templates; and merchants rely on portable proofs delivered through user-initiated, peer-to-peer exchanges. The Dataswyft Wallet enforces trust rules blindly and consistently, coordinating data mobility without ever accessing underlying data. CheckD, the reference application, provides the user interface through which explicit agency is expressed.
By distributing roles and responsibilities across these layers, the architecture enables asynchronous market formation: data providers, issuers, holders, and merchants can prepare independently, converging only at the moment of user-initiated exchange. This produces liquidity in the trust economy, lowers verification costs, and supports cross-ecosystem interoperability. Regulatory compliance is achieved by design through data minimisation, purpose limitation, localised custody, explicit consent, and structural non-trackability.
The white paper outlines the governance model, systemic properties, and economic implications of this infrastructure, including its support for cross-border trust, its inherent resistance to surveillance, and its avoidance of vendor lock-in through open-sourced custody and protected orchestration protocols. Together, these elements form a future-ready foundation for decentralised digital markets in which data is sovereign, trust is portable, and individuals sit at the centre of the digital economy.
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