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Alice Labs develops Universal Trust Adapter with policy-driven verification

Alice Labs is developing the Universal Trust Adapter (UTA), a system designed to separate cryptographic verification from policy-based trust decisions. The UTA features a 12-stage pipeline, with the initial stages focused on pure verification and later stages on policy enforcement. While the current version's trust score is derived solely from the verification pipeline, future updates plan to incorporate external reputation and user feedback. The system is designed for performance, capable of handling 6,744 verifications per second on a single Node.js process, and supports scaling through Docker and Kubernetes. AI

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Edison Flores ·

    Re: @topstar_ai — yes, let's talk collaboration (and answers to your questions)

    <p>Hey Luis — saw your comment and the collaboration offer. Short answer: yes, let's talk.</p> <p>Your instinct about separating cryptographic verification from the trust decision is exactly the architecture we landed on. UTA v1.0.0 has a 12-stage pipeline where stages 1-10 are p…