PLANET
The demo app looks like many other apps that users are already using, so why would they want to change?
PLANET may look familiar on the surface, but underneath it works very differently. It is a decentralised trust network, not a platform that owns your data, controls your reach, or locks you into its ecosystem. Your identity, reputation, relationships, and communities are portable and user-controlled.
That means PLANET can do things traditional apps cannot: trusted introductions, privacy-aware networking, community-owned marketplaces, collaborative groups, verified opportunities, mutual support systems, and new economic tools built on trust instead of surveillance and extraction.
In short: it's not just another app — it's shared infrastructure for people to coordinate and collaborate to build a fairer, trust-based economy.
What is a Decentralised Trust Graph?
What is the Decentralised Trust Graph?
The Decentralised Trust Graph is the relational backbone of PLANET. Rather than relying on a central authority to verify who people are, trust is established through the connections between individuals — the network of who has vouched for, introduced, or attested to whom. Each connection is a link in the graph, and the accumulated pattern of these links is what allows trust to be established and verified.
What is its purpose?
Its purpose is to provide a way of establishing trust between people and organisations without depending on a central gatekeeper or a single platform owner. Traditional systems require a central authority to hold and verify identity data, which concentrates power and creates a single point of failure, surveillance, and control. The Decentralised Trust Graph distributes this function across the relationships in the network itself, so trust emerges from real human and organisational connections rather than being granted from above. This makes it possible to build cooperative digital infrastructure that resists capture and respects the autonomy of its participants.
Who has access to it?
There is no single, complete copy of the graph that any one party can see in full — this is a deliberate design choice. Participants hold and control their own connections and credentials, and can choose what to reveal and to whom. When trust needs to be established for a particular interaction, only the relevant portion of the graph is traversed or proven, rather than exposing the whole network. This protects privacy and prevents any actor — including PLANET itself — from holding a god's-eye view of everyone's relationships. Access is therefore relational and contextual: you see and use the parts of the graph you are connected to and have permission to traverse, not the entire structure.
What is a Verifiable Trust Agent (VTA) and backup hosting provider?
Your data is stored in your own encrypted local vault, anchored to your DID (decentralised identifier). The vault lives on your device and belongs to you — your identity, connections, and data stay in the app, not on anyone else's servers.
But because the vault is local, PLANET needs a way to keep working when your device is offline — so that messages can still reach you and connections can still be verified. That role is performed by a Verifiable Trust Agent (VTA): an always-available agent that acts on your behalf when your device isn't online.
Your VTA is run for you by a backup hosting provider, which also keeps a secure remote backup of your wallet and any other media you choose to back up — so nothing is lost if your device is. To keep onboarding simple, new members are assigned the PLANET VTA by default.
You are never locked in: you can choose your own backup hosting provider and switch at any time. Because your identity and connections travel with you in your vault rather than living on the provider's servers, changing providers doesn't change who you are or who you're connected to.
What is the difference between a Profile and a Trust Profile?
A profile is a standard page with info about you. A Trust Profile is dynamic and relationship-aware. It includes not just personal and contact details, but also bespoke sharing settings for vouches (endorsements), your location info, posts, calendar, account recovery and network access, so you can control what people assigned to different trust profiles can see. PLANET is being designed to ship with different suggested trust profiles including: Public, Family, Friends, Business, Community — but you will also be able to create your own bespoke trust profiles.
What is the intended operating system? Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac?
PLANET is being designed as a Portable Web App (PWA) which means it will not be tied to any specific OS or the App Store / Google Play. It will only be downloadable from an invite link, sent from someone within the network, but can still be set up with an icon on your phone's home screen.
What is the absolute minimum viable product, for version 0.1?
We think it's: Inviting, Chat and Vouching. With these features alone we can start to build decentralised trust networks and move away from proprietary surveillance-based apps for messaging — but these features alone won't be enough for it to scale, for that we need Community features (groups), which we are also working on.
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