Open Source as a Factor of Trust

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Argues that open source plus foundation governance measurably increases trust in distributed networks, citing the Hedera/Hyro code donation into a foundation and the project now showing 400+ contributors from 50+ companies and ranking second only to Ethereum for development traction. Describes practical safeguards: supply-chain hardening, vendor-neutral governance, and a demonstrated proof-of-concept decentralized identity wallets that bind passport-verified personhood to GitHub IDs and GPG keys, announced at a Geneva conference and used to verify contributor identity.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:11Trust in data exchange
3. 2:39Decentralization as trust
4. 4:40Trusting software
5. 5:23Open source enhances trust
6. 6:59Foundations in governance
7. 8:32Equal rights in foundations
8. 9:44Supply chain security
9. 11:28Hyro project case
10. 13:59Trusting contributors
11. 15:27Digital identity verification
12. 17:59Trust in distributed systems
13. 18:42Conclusion and Q&A

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