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created 24 August 2026 · last modified 24 August 2026

This is a research program
looking for peers.

The Kinetic Trust Protocol was built across twenty-three years of fraud and security practice, and it is still being sharpened in public. The RFCs are draft. The claims are versioned. The ledger is open. If this territory is familiar to you from a different tradition, or you want to build one of the missing pieces, you are the reader this site was designed for.

primary contact

Reach out directly.

Research collaborations, peer review, and book-related inquiries are answered personally. Use email for substantive exchanges; the public channels below for shorter notes and ongoing conversation.

§01where the work lives

The Voyage — 12 essays

The narrative frame: Departure through Fire, published on Medium.

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Substack

Long-form essays on Digital Physics, trust, and the protocol's roots.

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GitHub / ktp-rfc

The RFC repository. Open issues are welcome; draft PRs even more.

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§02how to contribute

Read the RFCs critically

Every spec is versioned and tracked. Open an issue where the physics fails, where the threat model is incomplete, or where a schema is under-specified. Disagreement is the contribution.

Bring a convergent tradition

If you have arrived at A ≤ E from cybernetics, free-energy, commons governance, or percolation theory, write a short note. Independent convergence is the strongest evidence the territory is real.

Build a reference implementation

A sensor. A Blue Zone runtime. A conformance test. Any layer, any language. The Specification-Existence Gap is real, and this site exists partly to close it.

Steelman the framework

Thirteen steelmen are already answered. Number fourteen is welcome. The harder the argument, the more useful the exchange.

stay current

Engage, contribute, collaborate.

There are multiple ways to engage, contribute, and collaborate. Short-form Digital Gravity for Enterprise on LinkedIn. Lyrical essays on Medium. Kinetic Trust Protocol details on Substack. All of it open on Reddit. Pieces end up where they end up — pick the rhythm that fits.

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see alsoBringing a critique, a convergence note, or a reference implementation? Read what's claimed and what would refute it before you reach out: Claims register → (each claim with its maturity rating), Falsifiers → (what would weaken each), and Limits & red lines → (what KTP refuses to be). The framework is built to be contested — the Constitution names the floor; the rest is open work.
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Which door brought you here?

Two questions. Helps shape what gets written next.

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How to cite
APA 7th ed.

Perkins, C. (2026, May 6). Community. Kinetic Trust Protocol. https://kinetic-trust-protocol.net/community
Plain text

Chris Perkins, "Community," Kinetic Trust Protocol, https://kinetic-trust-protocol.net/community (accessed May 6, 2026).
reference
pending — source not yet published
RFC tree on GitHub ↗