# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 007

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:007`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** Collapsing identity, reputation, trust, and authority into one score or token hides institutional judgment inside a scoring rule and ownership record rather than eliminating it.

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

**Claim type.** failure

**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.**

> Design by collapse remains design. When identity, reputation, trust, and authority merge into one score or one token, the resulting system does not eliminate institutional judgment. It hides the judgment inside a scoring rule and an ownership record.

**Source locator.** Line 34 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 The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.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.