Introducing the Trust Operating System

Digital systems can tell you what happened, but they can’t tell you why it happened, who agreed to it, or whether it should have happened at all. 

For the last few years, we’ve been focused on answering the question: How do we prove where data came from and whether it can be trusted? 

In the carbon credit space (and beyond), data flows between multiple actors – each with their own systems, incentives, and claims. Without cryptographic provenance, it’s impossible to verify the integrity of those claims, the actors involved – or compare outputs across contexts.

In our quest to solve this problem, we’ve been building significant pieces of technology focused on creating workflows to define required data, ingest this data, and automate verification of this data. Today, with an agentic future almost here, we believe it’s time for us to turn this technology to a bigger problem; the future of trust. 

DOVU is building the backbone for how trust gets modelled, shared, and monetised at scale – an economic layer for verifiable coordination between humans, systems, and AI. It has the potential to transform how civilisation coordinates, remembers and verifies trust. 

Background

Why existing systems fail 

Most digital infrastructure wasn’t designed for trust. The focus has been on recording transactions.

You can timestamp a payment. You can log a contract change. You can assign a token. But none of that tells you why it happened, who agreed to it, or whether it should’ve happened at all.

From carbon markets to autonomous agents, real systems require something deeper:

• Intent: What actors agreed to do
• Logic: How that agreement is enforced
• Memory: What actually happened, who signed off
• Consequence: What changed, and why it matters

What we’ve developed is an infrastructure layer – a Trust Operating System – based on three things:

• Modular logic and reusable blueprints
• Shared memory across roles, systems, and actors
• Verifiable outcomes tied to programmable consequence

It’s infrastructure for intent: a system that captures, replays, and verifies the logic of coordination.

Conceptually, we call this a Trust Operating System. We call ours DOVU OS.

DOVU OS is the first system purpose-built to turn intent into verifiable coordination.

Economic imbalances

Existing systems don’t attribute value to individuals making incremental contributions, nor engaging with the IP of methodologies and workflows. Yet, each time a methodology is engaged with, its value increases. This, in turn, strengthens the value proposition of the methodology creator, which creates an intangible reputational gain. 

We believe that this can be transformed, by ensuring that there is a mechanism ensuring that systems are dynamic, not static. Where information is maintained, and not deprecated through abandon. Where:

• Every blueprint execution rewards its author
• Every logged memory fuels contributor incentives
• Every interaction sustains the infrastructure itself 

This is possible through using the $DOVU token; a utility token that records activity.

DOVU OS is more than just a workflow tool. We’re building the backbone for how trust gets modelled, shared, and monetised at scale.

DOVU OS features

DOVU OS has a clear set of functionality. 

1. Unified standards

Before shipping containers, global trade was chaotic.

Every port needed custom infrastructure. Every route demanded bespoke packaging. Goods didn’t move efficiently – not because they didn’t exist, but because there was no shared format for transporting them.

Then came the container.

One standard changed everything. Suddenly, every ship, port, and crane could interoperate, and goods flowed globally. 

We view DOVU OS as a shipping container for trust. It’s a unified standard for intent, logic, memory, and consequence. These building blocks form blueprints.

2. Blueprints 

Blueprints define the roles, schema, and trust logic of workflows. Specifically, they: 

• Capture intent
• Execute logic
• Record context
• Verify roles
• Log memory in a way that’s searchable, licensed, revocable, and reusable

Every configuration file spawns a live coordination system – linking domain-specific primitives and surfacing custom interfaces built for real actors, not abstract users. These are machine-readable models of how actors collaborate,

They are digitally signed containers of trust: logic, roles, schemas – packaged into executable, auditable units. When used or forked, they generate royalties. When logged, they generate memory. When reused, they generate value.

We’ve already shipped domain-specific blueprints – not hypotheticals, but live, running blueprint flows, demoed for Hedera Governing Council members and aligned to real-world requirements, deployed in minutes.

These include:

• Vehicle provenance and traceability
• OEM leasing and multi-party agreements
• Coffee supply chains
• Gold and diamond tracking
• General RWA issuance and lifecycle monitoring

Crucially, these are reusable:

• Verifiable blueprint flows for ISO-aligned compliance
• Repeatable models for supply chain coordination
• Agent-based rulesets for AI memory licensing
• Carbon methodologies backed by real auditors and standards

ERC‑20 was a simple token standard proposed by the Ethereum Foundation. By standardising how tokens behave, it enabled protocols like Uniswap to emerge, powering billions in decentralised liquidity.

DOVU Blueprints are the equivalent for verifiable action and auditable knowledge, defining a shared, programmable container for trust across systems.

3. Memory

We don’t just stop at timestamping or asset issuance.

DOVU OS captures something deeper: a structured memory of decisions, including:

• What roles existed
• What options were available
• What logic was followed
• And why a decision unfolded the way it did

By recording human intent over time we’re able to capture the logic of collaboration itself. This is the memory AGI will need to learn from.

And every actor – human or machine – who wants to access that past, pays to license the living knowledge of real-world collaboration.

Without DOVU OS, AGI will learn from noise. With it, it aligns with the logic of collective memory.

4. Economic incentives for behaviour

Our staking and behaviour alignment system has been live for over three years rewarding real activity, not idle tokens.

It enables distribution based on verifiable participation within the network, rather than token holdings, reinforcing its role as a utility-driven ecosystem.

Real-world implementation

Our roots are in sustainability. We are one of the most active teams working with the Hedera Guardian – building auditable blueprints for carbon credits, traceable methodologies, and asset-backed issuance.

We issued credits. We modelled methodologies. We ran the system at scale.

Over the past three years, DOVU OS has moved beyond pilots. These aren’t prototypes or simulations – they are active deployments where trust, memory, and consequence are being operationalised at scale.

Veteran’s Carbon Holdings – United States

Over the next 10 years DOVU OS is powering the audit infrastructure for a $1 billion regenerative farming initiative in the United States. Farmers submit soil and land-use data across thousands of acres, aligned with verified regenerative practices. Agronomists and third-party verifiers sign off using role-based logic baked into the blueprint. Once validation thresholds are met, carbon credits are issued – with a full audit trail that reflects every action, decision, and participant.

This isn’t a conceptual framework. It’s a signed multi-decade commitment, with worldwide implications beyond the states – read the VCH press release and news.

Indigenous Forest Protection – Ketrawe Foundation (Bolivia)

The Ketrawe Foundation project combines agroforestry, biodiversity restoration, and traceable carbon finance in one of the most ecologically significant zones of Bolivia. Operating within the HDS1 Evergreen Broadleaf Forest – a 30-year undisturbed ecosystem under growing pressure from sugarcane expansion – Ketrawe is reversing deforestation by changing how farmers interact with the land.

Rather than exclude agriculture, Ketrawe integrates it. Their model introduces multi-species windbreak forests – combining native and exotic trees – that:

• Increase yields by 9-32% through improved water retention and soil quality
• Reduce wind erosion and flood risk
• Rehabilitate habitat for primates, reptiles, birds, and pollinators
• Reintroduce native genetic material through locally sourced seed stock

This isn’t a theory – it’s a land-use transformation. Farmers are voluntarily adopting the model because it raises incomes, protects land, and stabilises agriculture. The project uses ISO 14064-3 – audited dMRV (CarbonSpace v1.1) and aligns with the GHG Protocol and SBTi’s FLAG guidance.

DOVU OS underpins the full lifecycle:

• Roles and schema reflect local coordinators, auditors, and issuers
• All data inputs – from planting to validation – are recorded in memory
• Carbon credits are issued only when logic and environmental thresholds are met

This is land regeneration with economic alignment – captured and verified in a single programmable trust blueprint, explore the project.

Circular Economy – End of Life Vehicle (ELV) Recycling

DOVU OS powers the audit and coordination layer for India’s national End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) recycling program – a large-scale intervention aimed at shifting vehicle scrappage away from informal, environmentally damaging channels.

Currently, less than 0.1% of India’s ELVs are recycled through official pathways. Informal operators often bypass safety and environmental norms, selling unsafe parts and dumping waste. To counter this, the Indian government supports a formal system of Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facilities (RVSFs) – but these entities face significant cost disadvantages.

In partnership with MMCM, DOVU OS supports the issuance of ELV Credits: a new carbon-backed asset that quantifies the verified environmental benefit of processing each vehicle through an RVSF. Each credit is:

• Tied to a unique vehicle, with full traceability
• Backed by timestamped dismantling data and facility verification
• Validated by compliance actors before issuance

This turns the recycling process into a fully auditable blueprint:

• Vehicle owners submit certificates of deposit
• RVSFs log dismantling and material recovery
• Government actors sign off and approve
• DOVU OS mints credits and logs the entire lifecycle

By providing RVSFs with a new revenue stream, this initiative makes compliance viable – while improving safety, transparency, and environmental outcomes nationwide. View the case study.

Why these projects matter

These case studies are proof that programmable trust isn’t a theory; it’s already here, and it scales.

Each of these deployments – spanning regenerative agriculture, forest preservation, and industrial recycling – proves that memory, logic, and consequence can be standardised, embedded, and reused across sectors.

And, crucially, that everything can be indexed and visible, Coordination isn’t just recorded – it’s queryable. This isn’t just data provenance – it’s a living API of trust.

DOVU OS

DOVU OS isn’t a workflow tool. It’s a full-stack system for programmable trust – purpose-built to coordinate logic, roles, data, and consequences at scale. It is designed to power other – closed or open – systems. 

We’ve already built:

• A domain-specific language for authoring trust logic clearly and predictably – no bloat, no ambiguity
• An asset explorer that indexes every audit trail, unlocks traceability, and makes verification accessible
• A programmable staking system that rewards verifiable contributions – not speculation – with incentives embedded directly into the memory layer

Applications

DOVU OS isn’t a new layer on the blockchain stack – it’s a coordination runtime built from reusable, declarative configurations. Every use case – from ELV recycling to AGI licensing – starts with a DSL blueprint that defines the roles, schema, and trust logic.

From there, the system generates a runtime that connects directly to relevant infrastructure – Guardian, HTS, IPFS, EVM, custom oracles – and renders a domain-specific interface tailored to that trust logic.

This is how programmable trust becomes composable infrastructure – domain by domain, interface by interface.

Components

1. Blueprint App Store

Every time a blueprint is authored, reused, forked, or executed, it creates measurable value – and that value flows back into the system predictably, by design.

Here’s how the loop works:

• Authors earn royalties every time their logic is used, forked, or consumed
• The DOVU Treasury collects protocol fees, fueling incentives and keeping the engine sustainable
• Network participants benefit from an alignment to rule-based coordination and a system that replenishes itself without dilution

This isn’t passive code. It’s compounding infrastructure – a flywheel where every act of trust reinforces the network’s value.

Over time, the Blueprint App Store becomes a growing archive of executable trust, compounding in value every time it’s deployed, extended, or embedded into real-world coordination.

Every interaction – from creation to reuse – generates value, reputation, and demand. Trust becomes infrastructure.

Every blueprint is:

• Authored in DOVU’s domain-specific language or our upcoming no-code builder
• Versioned with clear schema and intent
• Forkable, with lineage always preserved
• Economically activated every time it’s used

This isn’t speculation. It’s measurable coordination value – earned through execution, not noise.

The more coordination a blueprint enables, the more its author earns. Not through hype, but through consistent, auditable economic flow.

The Blueprint App Store enables:

• Individuals to publish high-value logic once – and earn royalties every time it’s used
• Enterprises to search, adapt, and deploy trusted blueprints instantly
• Agents to execute memory-backed flows without reinventing logic
• Standards bodies to codify compliance into executable containers

Over time, this becomes a living archive of trust – a knowledge layer of verified behavior, where value flows to the most useful logic, not the loudest.

2. Charger Protocol

The Charger Protocol bridges Web3 tokens with traditional Web2 development workflows.

With it, developers can:

• Assign $DOVU balances to applications or agents via REST
• Meter usage transparently in fiat terms (e.g. $20 to create a blueprint)
• Set limits, revoke access, or monitor spend – all without writing Web3 code

And it’s real token-denominated pricing, billed like a cloud service, making it simple for Web2 teams to get on board. 

3. Token-powered trust

We’ve seen it before: protocols, libraries, standards launched with vision – and forgotten.
Not because they didn’t matter, but because no value flowed through them.

That’s why we’ve defined a two-token model – not as a gimmick, but as an economic reflection of reality:

Token	Purpose	Role in the market
$DOVU	Execution	Prices demand for coordination (create, run, log)
$TRUST	Contribution	Rewards the supply of memory and intent (audit, share, reflect)

$DOVU

Every action in the Blueprint App Store – from authoring to updating, from executing to logging memory – requires $DOVU.

Here’s how it works:

• All pricing is denominated in USD, but paid in $DOVU – anchoring participation to real-world value while enforcing native utility
• Creating a blueprint consumes $DOVU to mint the logic and register authorship
• Running a blueprint – whether as a workflow, subflow, or asset issuance – burns a micro-fee in $DOVU
• Logging memory to the trust ledger requires $DOVU again, ensuring every action is accountable and metered

These micro-fees create a closed, trackable economy – where every movement of the token reflects real coordination, not speculation.

When a blueprint is reused – forked, run, or embedded – value flows directly back to the original author.

That reward isn’t one-time. It compounds across every downstream instance, execution, or reuse.

A portion of each fee also flows to the DOVU treasury, supporting a sustainable reward model that aligns stakers and network participants with protocol integrity.

The royalty loop looks like this:

• Authors earn recurring royalties from every downstream use of their logic
• Stakers earn from protocol alignment and growing network activity
• The Treasury grows alongside real usage – not through inflation, but through demand and coordination volume

This is how trust scales: enforced by code, rewarded by usage, compounded by reuse.

$TRUST

The $TRUST token will activate only after a strategic threshold: 500,000+ recorded audit trails. This isn’t theoretical. It’s a deliberate unlock tied to real usage and crowd-sourced provenance at scale.

$TRUST rewards participation – not possession. The more verifiable tacit memory you contribute, the more you earn. But if you stop, your $TRUST quietly decays – not by punishment, but through entropy.

Because trust isn’t stored. It’s sustained.

Partners

A collaborative standards effort

We’re working with partners like Hashgraph Online to define canonical roles and templates – the foundations of reusable trust.

This includes:

• An open standard to immutably store blueprint artefacts with permanence
• Execution recording standards for processing the flow or instance of a blueprint.
• Verifiable signatures and proof outputs

This is how ecosystems scale – not by reinventing everything from scratch, but by agreeing on containers, then innovating within them.

A foundation for how trust works in the age of humans, agents, and machines.

Hedera Guardian

We’re not replacing Guardian. We’re complementing it.

DOVU OS is a general-purpose coordination layer – for programmable trust. It gives Guardian policies a reusable execution environment.

And it introduces an economic layer beneath them – so blueprint authors can publish, track, and earn from their contributions.

Methodologies don’t have to remain static. They can evolve, remain discoverable, and become a durable public asset – without costing millions to maintain.

Guardian is the policy brain for sustainability.

DOVU OS is the memory, execution, and economy beneath it.

Together, they form the foundation of verifiable, sustainable coordination – for every domain.

This isn’t a prototype

The DOVU stack is already live, powering programmable trust in the wild.

• Our domain-specific language lets blueprint flows be authored with precision
• Our explorer surfaces every action, intent, and outcome
• Our staking system aligns actors with programmable incentives
• Our blueprint marketplace is being finalised – a living registry of reusable coordination logic

DOVU OS began high-touch by design – proving real-world blueprints in carbon, supply chains, and public infrastructure where traceability and economic consequence matter most. But we’re not here to stay in control. We’re here to make ourselves invisible – but not irrelevant.

We’re evolving DOVU from a platform we operate into an open coordination substrate anyone can build on – where logic speaks for itself and no one needs permission to act.

In Q1 2026, we’ll launch the Blueprint App Store.

Over the next 24-36 months, we will:

• Open-source the coordination engine and runtime
• Enable external systems to interpret and execute blueprint flows independently
• Launch proof mechanisms that stand without platform dependence

We’re not launching software. We’re opening a programmable trust economy. 

Our mission

Prove billion-dollar coordination today.

Make it permissionless tomorrow – without abandoning value.