SILT Core

Spec-first identity infrastructure for authority, consent, delegation, and revocation.

What it is

SILT Core is a spec-first identity infrastructure project focused on formalising status, standing, authority, consent, and revocation as enforceable, technology-agnostic primitives, drawing on long-standing private-law concepts such as agency, mandate, and reliance. Rather than delivering an application or platform, the project defines a missing semantic layer that many civic, governance, and public-interest systems implicitly depend on but rarely specify, establishing the conditions under which an identity holder is recognised as capable of acting, consenting, or delegating authority. The current work establishes normative specifications, threat models, misuse cases, and minimal validation schemas to make authority and consent explicit, auditable, and revocable by default. Implementation is intentionally deferred. SILT Core is designed to be adopted, critiqued, or extended by multiple downstream implementations across diverse legal and cultural contexts, without locking identity into wallets, platforms, or custodial assumptions.

What it is not

  • Not a wallet, identity app, or credential issuer
  • Not a blockchain protocol or chain-specific framework
  • Not a token model, DAO toolkit, or governance platform
  • Not a replacement for existing identity standards

Current status

  • Specifications and schemas: v0
  • Threat model and misuse cases: published
  • Implementation: intentionally deferred

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