About DeTrust Lab

DeTrust Research Lab

We aim to enhance the trust and credibility of corporate sustainability strategy, our research lab sets out to introduce a novel concept—decentralized trust—that revolutionizes the way that corporates authenticate their sustainability strategies through the non-transferable non-fungible tokens that are verified by multiple stakeholders, including social movement organizations. In general, the DeTrust project aims for a scientific breakthrough with an ambition of creating a Decentralized-Trust-Based Autonomous Sustainability Governance Framework—a co-determined distributed trust, where social movement organizations, environmentalists, firms, and communities come together bottom-up, as emergent properties of each other to develop an autonomous governance network for the structure of collaborative sustainability strategies. Emergent properties in this research refer to properties that manifest themselves as the result of various trust mechanisms working together, not as a property of any individual trust component. Thus, decentralized trust as well explains how multiple stakeholders could coordinate collaborative sustainability strategies in a transparent and autonomous way. In this sense, each stakeholder will have the ability to decompose property rights to match features of business model innovation and create even richer incentives to work with collaborative sustainability strategies digitally, which are transparent, controlled by multiple stakeholders, and not influenced by a central government. The success of the DeTrust project will contribute directly to the research on the pseudonymous economy and decentralized identity, as well as shed light on the direction of decentralized society. This research may contribute to the creation of soft law in sustainable development between corporates, social movement organizations, non-governmental organizations, and intergovernmental organizations.