Omega Architecture — v3.0 Hardened Final Design
Trustworthy operation under uncertainty — not maximum trust, but bounded, explainable, auditable, locally computed, influence-aware trust that degrades gracefully under adversarial conditions across a 74-year security horizon.
DTPP-Ω is a decentralized trust operating system for autonomous agent ecosystems. It addresses the critical gap in contemporary agentic stacks: how trust propagates between agents across a decentralised mesh without a central authority.
Identity protocols establish who an agent is. Permission systems gate what an agent may execute. Neither addresses how trust propagates between agents. DTPP-Ω fills that gap.
The protocol is designed to operate across the period 2026–2100, assuming intelligent adversaries, coordinated agent coalitions, evidence manipulation, and governance capture attempts.
| Property | Mechanism |
|---|---|
| Bounded trust | Mandatory decay (C2) — trust approaches zero as propagation depth increases |
| Scoped trust | Mandatory scope isolation (C3) — no cross-domain propagation |
| Explainable trust | Explainability requirement (C5) — every decision is traceable |
| Auditable trust | Auditability requirement (C6) — all decisions reconstructable |
| Revocable trust | Six-class revocation (R0–R5) with attenuated wave propagation |
| Locally computed trust | No global trust score (C1) — local trust vectors only |
| Coalition-resistant trust | Coalition detection via max() across seven signals |
| Budget-constrained trust | Trust scarcity (C11) — bounded issuance per epoch |
Eleven invariants govern the protocol. No governance process may alter them.
| Code | Invariant | Rule |
|---|---|---|
| C1 | No global trust score | Trust exists only as local trust vectors |
| C2 | Mandatory trust decay | T(n+1) < T(n). No exception. |
| C3 | Mandatory scope isolation | Cross-domain propagation is prohibited |
| C4 | Evidence provenance | Assertions without provenance are invalid |
| C5 | Explainability | Every decision produces a traceable explanation |
| C6 | Auditability | All decisions reconstructable from evidence |
| C7 | Capability separation | Trust does not directly grant authority |
| C8 | Non-compensatory authorization | Single gate failure → denial. No compensation. |
| C9 | Weakest-link independence | min() across all eight dimensions. No averaging. |
| C10 | Recovery path requirement | No irreversible emergency condition may exist |
| C11 | Trust scarcity | No node may issue unlimited trust assertions per epoch |
dtpp-omega/
├── README.md
├── LICENSE
├── CHANGELOG.md
│
├── docs/
│ ├── DTPP-Omega_Brief.md # Technical brief (SSRN / Zenodo paper)
│ └── DTPP-Omega_v3_Spec.md # v3.0 hardened full specification
│
├── rfc/
│ └── RFC-0005_DTPP.md # RFC-0005 stub — Distributed Trust Propagation Protocol
│
├── src/
│ └── dtpp/
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── trust_assertion.py # Trust assertion schema and validation
│ ├── trust_propagation.py # Propagation model — decay, scope, depth
│ ├── independence.py # Independence accounting engine
│ ├── coalition.py # Coalition detection layer
│ ├── authorization.py # Two-phase authorization engine
│ ├── budget.py # Trust budget engine (C11)
│ ├── influence.py # Influence graph engine
│ └── revocation.py # Revocation system (R0–R5)
│
└── tests/
└── test_trust_propagation.py # Core propagation tests
| Work | DOI / Link |
|---|---|
| DTPP-Ω Working Paper (Zenodo) | 10.5281/zenodo.20521866 |
| UCS / EchoNet | 10.5281/zenodo.19533332 |
| UPIF | SSRN 6567858 |
| SBTA | 10.5281/zenodo.19915318 |
| ASI Governance Canon | 10.5281/zenodo.19538857 |
- XwhyZ-WHYLD/universal-cognitive-schema — UCS / EchoNet (agent identity layer)
Roshan George Thomas XWHYZ — WHYLD Research Division, UAE ORCID: 0009-0002-1175-7749
This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
@techreport{thomas2026dtpp,
title = {DTPP-Ω: A Decentralized Trust Propagation Protocol for
Autonomous Agent Ecosystems — Anticipating Civilizational-Scale
Trust Failures, 2026–2100},
author = {Thomas, Roshan George},
year = {2026},
month = {June},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20521866},
url = {https://zenodo.org/records/20521866},
institution = {XWHYZ -- WHYLD Research Division},
}