We build the trust layer in the open.
When an AI acts on data, a signature proves the bytes are intact, not that the data is true. Dynamic Feed defines and open-sources the missing piece, a way to grade how much to believe a datapoint, and contributes it to the open standards the AI ecosystem is building.
Signed is not verified.
A cryptographic signature proves a datapoint was not altered, and who produced it. It says nothing about whether the value is any good. A signed reading can be stale, single-sourced, or a producer simply restating its own claim, and the envelope is still perfect. Most systems quietly treat signed as trustworthy, and that conflation is where downstream decisions go wrong.
Three questions, kept separate.
A consumer acting on a datapoint needs three different answers, and collapsing them into one "trusted" flag is the mistake. So we keep them as distinct, independently checkable axes.
Were the bytes unaltered?
An Ed25519 signature over a canonical record, plus who produced it and when. Binary, and cheap to check.
How good is the data?
Freshness, corroboration, source count and basis, expressed as a graded confidence, never a decorative one. This is the axis that actually decides whether to act.
Who actually saw it?
Was the reading observed independently of the producer, or is the producer reporting its own claim? Corroboration is not independence.
Open by default, verifiable by anyone.
We publish the reliability layer as an open, vendor-neutral object: a documented schema, zero-dependency reference validators in Python and JavaScript, and a portable conformance suite, all MIT-licensed. Any system can adopt the shape and check it the same way, with no account and no dependency on us, so you can verify even against us.
We take that work into the open standards the ecosystem is building, across agent protocols, data formats, and provenance and attestation. The aim is simple: one honest way to say how much a machine should believe a piece of data, shared rather than owned.
The reference toolkit
Schema, Python and JavaScript validators, worked examples and a conformance suite. Clone it and run it.
github.com/dynamicfeed/df-verify ↗The reliability object
The published shape and its honesty rules, in draft 2020-12 JSON Schema.
/schemas/okf-reliability-v1.json ↗Portable test vectors
Pass/fail vectors covering every honesty rule, so independent implementations can prove they agree.
conformance-vectors.json ↗Reference output
The object emitted live on real data, so the shape is testable against production, not a sketch.
/v1/facts ↗The work is the introduction.
We engage the way good open-source does: by contributing something useful and letting it stand on merit. Every contribution is grounded in a working reference, adversarially checked before it goes out, and offered as shared infrastructure rather than a pitch. We would rather be the implementation others can verify than the vendor others have to trust.
This is advisory evidence a consumer recomputes for itself, never a trust score we hand down and never a safety certification. Confidence is computed from transparent signals, never decorative. We sign public observations and hashes, with zero personal data, and we are a neutral witness, never on the money path.
Check it. Don't trust us.
The toolkit is open, the schema is public, and the producer is live. Everything here is something you can run yourself.