Web of Trust is a local-first trust network where real-world encounters become cryptographic relationships, and real actions can become signed reputation.

It is a shared experiment: What happens when a group of people at DWeb Camp creates a small living trust network together?

Participants will use the Web of Trust demo to create their own decentralized identity, set up a profile, verify other participants through an in-person QR-code flow, and create first attestations for each other. An attestation is a signed statement such as "This person helped me fix my bike at the camp", "This person helped me understand local-first identity", or "This person played a beautiful guitar set at the campfire."

After the hands-on part, we will move into a facilitated circle. Together we will explore questions such as:

• What is the difference between identity verification and actual trust?
• How can trust become visible without becoming social media, scoring, surveillance, or reputation capitalism?
• What does self-sovereign identity feel like when it starts from an embodied encounter?
• How could small trusted communities use this for local projects, care networks, food sovereignty or cooperative work?
• What are the risks, missing pieces, and social failure modes?
• How might this connect with other DWeb tools, protocols, and communities?

The session is designed for both technical and non-technical participants. No coding experience is required. People only need a smartphone or laptop. The technology will be introduced through hands-on use.

Participants leave with a working Web of Trust identity, first verified contacts, first attestations, and a lived sense of how local-first trust infrastructure can support real communities. We will collect questions, insights, and possible collaborations that emerge from the circle and share them back with participants after the workshop.