Building the Internet of Trust
CEO, Affinidi · Singapore
Builder and futurist, coding the trust layer for the AI age, openly, so technology creates opportunity and growth for everyone.
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A trust layer for people, businesses, and AI agents, where anyone can verify a claim using only the data the check needs.
Internet of Trust overview (opens in a new tab)Every AI agent should carry a permission it can prove, scoped to the task and revocable at any time.
Move the authorisation, not the keys (opens in a new tab)Both people and AI agents should be able to prove who they are, from Linux kernel contributors to the assistants acting for us.
Show me the proof, not the promise (opens in a new tab)Trust infrastructure should be open to anyone who relies on it, in open source code and open standards.
OpenVTC (opens in a new tab)Data should belong to the people and businesses it describes, and be shared one fact at a time.
Reclaim Your Self, Reclaim Your Future (opens in a new tab)He builds in the open with others: co-leading OpenVTC, editing standards with Trust Over IP working groups, and working alongside designers, developers, community leaders, and human-experience specialists. Building the Internet of Trust is never one person’s work.
He treats trust as shared infrastructure, like the internet itself: open standards and open code that anyone can build on, such as Apache-2.0 code, public specifications, and contributions to the Linux Foundation and DIF.
An optimist about technology, he believes it should open doors for everyone and let everyone share in the value it creates, without sacrificing their right to data privacy.
Vetted admission, where members vouch for a newcomer as the Linux kernel community does, shipped in September 2026. The Trust Spanning Protocol is now on by default, checked by a public conformance suite across five implementations.
Demonstrated at the Linux Foundation Member Summit in February 2026, and covered by ZDNET and Proof Street.
Glenn edits the Verifiable Trust Infrastructure, Decentralized Trust Graph Credentials, and Trust Tasks specifications, all of which are working drafts written in the open.
Glenn maintains the Rust implementation of the did:webvh method, a way to give web-based digital identities a verifiable history, hosted by the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF).
DIF
GDC update: OpenVTC progress in Geneva.
DIF Newsletter #65 names Glenn as leading OpenVTC with Geoff Turk and Drummond Reed.
A six-part technical series
Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code ZDNET (opens in a new tab) The First Person Linux kernel Maintainer Verification project (video) Linux Foundation (opens in a new tab) The Agent Is the State: UIs That Keep Nothing ic3.software (opens in a new tab) Glenn’s interviews and media coverage about Affinidi are in the Affinidi newsroom. Visit the newsroom → (opens in a new tab)
Glenn Gore has built internet infrastructure for over 30 years, from some of the first internet service providers to the open code he still writes today. As CEO of Temasek-founded Affinidi, he is building the Internet of Trust, where people and businesses own their identity and data, and every AI agent is accountable to the people it acts for. He co-leads OpenVTC and is an active contributor to open source trust work at the Linux Foundation. Formerly, he was Chief Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services.
“I spent my early career helping build an internet that connected everyone. What we left out was proof: who you’re dealing with, who sent them, and what they’re allowed to do. With AI agents now acting for us, that can’t wait. So that’s the code I’m writing, in the open, with anyone who wants to help.”
“Trust is built the way good code is: in the open, checked by many, and proven before anyone relies on it. If you’re building for a world where AI acts on our behalf, come and build it with us.”
