# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 029

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:029`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** An unverifiable continuity link terminates reputation inheritance at that point, so evidence earned before the unverifiable transition does not transfer forward.

**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.**

> First, continuity. The verifier resolves the Persona document, walks the continuity log to the record's origin, and confirms that every transition satisfied the governance rule in force at the time of the transition. An unverifiable link terminates the inheritance at that point. Evidence earned before an unverifiable transition does not transfer forward.

**Source locator.** Line 144 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 The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.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.