Minimize identity exposure
Specify each layer’s information access and attack surface. Using ZK does not establish system-wide privacy.
PROJECT THESIS
Trusted participation starts
with less identity exposure.
TIME researches private eligibility and layered protocol architecture for fair digital participation. The current stage is a synthetic-data engineering prototype.
Open applications need to check participation rules without assuming access to more persistent identity information.
TIME separates eligibility conditions, membership proofs and participation scopes. Applications can verify an explicit root, message, application and epoch and reject repeated nullifiers within the intended scope.
This is a research direction, not a complete real-person uniqueness system. Biometric deduplication, anonymous issuance, privacy after device loss and independent operation need further work.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Three principles guide the research.
Separate eligibility from assets
Human eligibility does not increase with token holdings. Transferable tokens and identity qualification follow separate rules.
Advance through reproducible evidence
Disclose implementation scope, synthetic experiments, tests and remaining risks so observers can distinguish goals from facts.
For developers, the goal is an eligibility interface and reference implementation. For communities and researchers, it is private participation and activity replay protection. For participants, it is less identity exposure during eligibility checks.
These are intended directions, not existing customers, revenue, deployment scale or released commercial products. TIME utility, rights and economics are also unfinished.
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