Re: Introduction: Glogos - logic layer 0 for truth and coordination

Dear Steven,

I am writing to you from the quiet evening of Ho Chi Minh City.
I send this message with the sincerity of a handwritten letter, echoing the
warmth I have felt from this community.
The engagement from this community has been a gift of clarity—a guiding
light,
helping me anchor this logic into the resilient laws of nature.

You are right. Glogos is a humble substrate.
It is a semantic vacuum—a minimal skeleton designed to serve the rich soul
of our community's work.

The substrate and the soul:
I view Bitcoin (thermodynamic body) and DIDs/VCs (semantic soul) as the two
great ancestors of digital trust.
Glogos is the inheritor—a digital script that feels as permanent as a
handwritten letter anchored in sunlight.
It provides the heartbeat—the rhythmic pulse of attestations that keeps an
identity (did:cel) alive by turning fleeting events into immutable memory.
I do not claim to know the final form of this fusion.
I simply anchor to Bitcoin as a genesis witness
<https://github.com/glogos-org/glogos/blob/main/shared/artifacts/genesis-artifact.json>
to
show my deepest respect for the physical laws that make digital truth
possible.

To answer your question on reputation:
I believe reputation is not a number, but a verifiable pedigree.
Reputation crystallizes when one becomes a necessary cryptographic ancestor
to the truths that follow.
That is why I built the standards bridge—to prove that Glogos can carry the
"causal inheritance" of VCs through its ancestral substrate.

The power of simplicity:
Is Glogos too simple? I believe stripping trust to its 6-field arithmetic
core is the Minimum Viable path to Resilient Digital Trust.
It ensures that digital truth remains immutable for the long term,
regardless of the infrastructure above it.

Invitation to verify:
I have implemented a verifiable heartbeat (poc) to demonstrate this
pedigree in action:
Standards Bridge:
https://github.com/glogos-org/glogos/blob/main/examples/use-cases/standards-bridge.ts

To experience this substrate firsthand, you can anchor a genesis zone:
`pip install glo-cli && glo init --name "[your-zone-name]"`

I invite you, Manu, and all colleagues to weigh in:
Can we co-evolve this substrate to honor and carry the soul of the DID/VC
ecosystem as a permanent anchor for Resilient Digital Trust?

With warmth and respect,




*P.S. If this logic resonates, nothing would honor me more than seeing a PR
sharing your Genesis Zone
<https://github.com/glogos-org/glogos/tree/main/shared/zones> in the
repository.The spec is waiting for its Co-Editors.*
Mạnh Thành Lê
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SHA-256("") — From nothing, truth emerges
<https://github.com/glogos-org/glogos/blob/main/shared/artifacts/genesis-artifact.json>


On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 10:46 AM Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net>
wrote:

> On 2026-01-14 11:45 am, Manh Thanh Le wrote:
>
> Glogos is offered as a contribution to this shared vision—providing the
> mathematical grounding needed for resilient digital trust.
>
> I welcome discussion on how this logic substrate can serve the broader
> goals of the Verifiable Credentials community.
>
> Hi Manh,
>
> I'm replying here to your comments about Glogos in the did:cel thread
> today, since I'm still unclear how it will be used relative to VCs and
> DIDs, including did:cel, and so it seems maybe Glogos is best addressed in
> its own thread.
>
> In that other (did:cel) thread, you gave links to the Glogos use-cases
> you're working on, and I looked through several of these. I started with
> this link you gave for scientific peer review:
>
>
> https://github.com/glogos-org/glogos/blob/main/examples/use-cases/peer-review.ts
>
> I found this and other of your 22 use-cases very interesting, and clearly
> there is a careful structure at play in your system. It seems to be well
> thought out and implemented, at least in your examples.
>
> However, I'm still unclear how what you've done relates to DIDs and VCs. I
> saw no evidence of either, at least on a scan of that science use-case.
>
> Given that 'reputation' is of extreme importance in the peer-reviewer case
> that you're showing, wouldn't the ability to handle VCs (and DIDs) be of
> great importance in the interactions involved?
>
> If you agree, I suggest the best way to involve the multiple more exert
> coding people (than me) on this list, in Glogos, would be to provide code
> showing that integration.
>
> Or, perhaps, do some of your use-cases already show this integration? If
> so, which?
>
> Or, perhaps, can Glogos completely replace the need for VCs and DIDs? 🙂
> In which case, you've definitely come to the right place, but getting past
> Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief may take the other members a few days.
> 😉
>
> Steven Rowat
>
>