The Seed Codex SeriesIn the old world, trust was vertical. Bestowed from the top. Bought, branded, borrowed, and revoked.But vertical trust collapses under its own weight. It breeds surveillance, obedience, and betrayal. In the post-scarcity civilization, trust is no longer conferred. It is earned, sensed, proven — and distributed horizontally across the weave. We do not need judges. We do not need ratings. We need witnessing. Trust flows where coherence moves. And that movement can now be re...