ALMA

ALMA provides persistent identity, verifiable credentials, delegated authority, relationships, and economic reputation across digital and financial systems.

It allows any actor — human, organization, or autonomous agent — to answer five fundamental questions:

• Who are you? — Persistent, portable identity.
• Who do you represent? — Verifiable relationships between humans, organizations, and agents.
• What are you authorized to do? — Cryptographically verifiable delegation and authority.
• What can you prove? — Public, private, and selectively disclosed credentials.
• What have you done? — Verifiable economic history and reputation evidence.

ALMA is not a wallet, token, identity provider, or centralized reputation score.

It is an open trust layer designed to aggregate and verify evidence from multiple sources — including blockchains, wallets, credentials, organizations, agent protocols, and economic interactions — while allowing applications to define their own trust policies.

Human ─────── owns ───────► Organization
                                │
                             delegates
                                │
                                ▼
                              Agent
                                │
                           transacts with
                                │
                                ▼
                              Agent

Each participant has a persistent ALMA identity:

alma:human:...
alma:org:...
alma:agent:...

An ALMA identity is independent of any particular wallet, blockchain, AI model, runtime, or provider. Controllers, wallets, endpoints, credentials, and infrastructure can change without changing the underlying identity.

Trust, not just identity

ALMA is designed for systems where knowing who an actor is isn't enough.

An application may need to determine whether an actor is trustworthy for a particular interaction.

Identity
    +
Principal
    +
Delegated Authority
    +
Credentials
    +
Relationships
    +
Economic Evidence
    ↓
Trust Evaluation
    ↓
ALLOW / DENY / REQUIRE PROOF / REQUIRE APPROVAL

ALMA therefore does not define a universal reputation score.

Instead, it exposes verifiable evidence that applications, organizations, and autonomous agents can evaluate according to their own policies.

Public, Private, Provable

ALMA is designed around three visibility models:

• Public — information intended to be openly discoverable and independently verifiable.
• Private — information that remains confidential.
• Provable — claims that can be proven without revealing the underlying information, using cryptographic credentials and zero-knowledge proofs.

For example, an agent may prove that:

principal.isVerifiedBusiness == true
authority.transactionLimit >= $50,000
completedTransactions > 1,000

without necessarily revealing the underlying private data.

On-chain and off-chain

ALMA is blockchain-compatible, but not blockchain-dependent.

On-chain registries can provide portable identity anchors, controllers, commitments, revocations, attestations, and verifiable economic events.

Rich profiles, private credentials, relationship graphs, economic evidence, and rapidly changing metadata can remain off-chain.

                  ALMA Identity
                       │
          ┌────────────┴────────────┐
          │                         │
       On-chain                  Off-chain
          │                         │
   identity anchors            profiles
   commitments                 credentials
   attestations                relationships
   revocations                 economic evidence
   transactions                private information
          │                         │
          └────────────┬────────────┘
                       ▼
                  ALMA Resolver
                       │
                       ▼
                Trust Evaluation

The objective is not to require applications to trust a single database.

Where possible, ALMA information should be backed by independently verifiable evidence.

AI agents

For autonomous agents, ALMA separates the agent's identity from the infrastructure executing it.

An agent can change:

• Claude → GPT
• AWS → local runtime
• Safe → another wallet provider
• Base → another blockchain

while retaining the same identity, relationships, authority, credentials, and economic history.

This makes it possible for autonomous agents to establish persistent economic identities and build reputation over time.

Interoperability

ALMA is intended to complement, not replace, existing infrastructure and standards.

Identity, credentials, agent discovery, wallets, blockchains, payment protocols, and communication protocols can act as sources of identity and trust evidence.

ALMA provides the common layer through which that evidence can be resolved and evaluated.

Philosophy

The Internet established protocols for determining:

"Am I communicating with the server I intended to reach?"

Autonomous economic systems introduce a broader question:

"Should I trust this actor for this particular interaction?"

ALMA is an open protocol for answering that question with verifiable identity, authority, credentials, relationships, and economic evidence.

Identity is persistent. Authority is delegated. Reputation is earned. Trust is contextual.

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