# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 011

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:011`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** A reputation history can substitute for a bond only if it attaches to a subject that cannot costlessly shed it, is interpretable in the present domain, and is contestable and inspectable.

**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.**

> A reputation history is the missing safeguard. It substitutes for the bond by making adverse conduct costly to the actor rather than only to the counterparty. But a reputation history performs that function only under three conditions. The history must attach to an accountable subject that cannot costlessly shed it. The history must be interpretable in the domain of the present transaction. The history must be contestable by the subject and inspectable by the relying party.

**Source locator.** Line 51 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 The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.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.