# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 036

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:036`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** The founding validator assumption must be recorded with its governance basis so relying parties can discount the subtree that descends from it.

**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 first validator in any admission system is admitted by assertion rather than by evidence. Persona Protocol requires that the assertion be recorded as such, with its governance basis, so that a later relying party can discount the entire subtree that descends from it.

**Source locator.** Line 164 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 The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.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.