Most disputes between two people aren’t about money. They’re about memory. “You said 30,000.” “No, I said 25,000.” Trusta kills that argument before it starts. It’s a shared receipt app where both parties confirm the deal, and neither can change it afterward.
The core mechanic is called The Seal. You find the other person by handle, QR, or contacts. You write the deal in plain language. Both tap confirm. That’s it, a tamper-proof receipt exists now. Five steps. Works for service jobs, loans, sales, rentals, favors. Any currency on earth.
After the deal closes, both sides rate each other across five dimensions: Reliability, Quality, Communication, Fairness, Respect. These don’t collapse into one star rating. They form a shape “a radar pentagon” that shows exactly where you’re strong and where you’re not.
That shape feeds your CVI “Community Value Index”, scored out of 1000. Six bands: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Watch, Flagged. You earn your band through actual transactions, rated by actual counterparties. Nobody assigns it. Nobody can fake it.
The receipts aren’t just stored on Trusta’s servers. Every hour, a Merkle tree of all new seals gets batched and a 32-byte root is written to the Bantu blockchain. Confirmed in 5–10 seconds. Your deal contents stay private. The proof that the deal happened is public forever.
Your CVI, pentagon, sealed deal count, and badges all live on a public profile. Shareable via QR code or link. New client, new city, new savings group. You send the link and your track record speaks before you do. Phone number stays hidden. Reputation travels.
Available in 13 languages including Kiswahili, Hausa, Arabic, isiZulu, and Pidgin. Works offline and queues seals until you’re back online. Sealing and reputation building are free, no paywall. Earn XBN tokens on the Bantu chain for completing deals and leaving ratings. This thing was built for the 2 billion people who work without contracts.
Their manifesto has 16 beliefs. Belief 15:
This is infrastructure, not a feature.
Belief 10:
The boda rider, the tailor, the tutor, the mechanic, these aren’t lesser workers. They’re most workers.
Trusta is making a bet that the next credit layer isn’t a bank. It’s a receipt.