# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 046

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:046`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** Missing evidence is null rather than zero; below a declared domain coverage threshold, a projection reports coverage and uncertainty without an aggregate.

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

**Claim type.** design

**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 first rule is that missing evidence is null, not zero. A domain in which a Persona has no admitted evidence yields no value. It does not yield a neutral value, and it does not yield a low value. The reference profile's neutral baseline applies only after a declared minimum coverage threshold is met within the rated domain. Below that threshold the projection returns coverage and uncertainty without an aggregate. A baseline applied to an empty domain is a fabricated prior wearing the costume of a measurement.

**Source locator.** Line 188 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 The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.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.