# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 009

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:009`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** Portable trust continuity is legitimate only when every contribution traces to evidence, validation, governance, context, challenge state, and time.

**Status.** Public research record. Not yet eligible for the published-source scholarly claim layer.

**Claim type.** condition

**Holds when.**

- Persona Protocol v0.3 as proposed; not an adopted standard

**Protocol.** TrustCarry Protocol v0.3, historically titled and aliased as Persona Protocol v0.3.

**Supporting passage from Persona Protocol v0.3.**

> The central claim is bounded. Autonomous systems require portable trust continuity, but portable trust continuity is legitimate only when every contribution traces to evidence, validation, governance, context, challenge state, and time.

**Source locator.** Line 42 of the sealed v0.3 source.

**Source SHA-256.** `38efc43b80ab62426ca1f946114677afeda730bca30dda71dfd299223a6def7c`

**Provenance.** Direct author affirmation of exact batch `persona-protocol-v0.3-new-claims-2026-08-01`. The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.

**License.** CC BY 4.0; attribute Wulf A. Kaal and cite the canonical record URL.

**Limit.** This record is public and citable as an author-affirmed research proposition. It is not a claim extracted from a canonical published paper, is not an adopted standard, and does not alter the 5,033 scholarly claim layer.