Foundational R&D in Digital Trust, Identity & Cryptographic Systems (2018–2025)
LinksUU Technology Solutions was a private deep-tech research and development initiative focused on one core problem:
How can digital systems verify real human presence and authenticity without collecting, storing, or centralizing personal identity data?
Founded in 2018, LinksUU operated in extended stealth for seven years, conducting applied research, prototyping, and architectural exploration across cryptography, digital identity, trust systems, and human authentication.
The work was not product-led. It was architecture-led.
As digital platforms expanded, the internet quietly lost a foundational property: assumable human authenticity.
LinksUU was created to explore whether trust could be re-introduced into digital environments without relying on identity databases, biometric capture, centralized authorities, persistent user records, or surveillance-based verification.
The objective was not to optimize existing systems, but to determine whether a qualitatively different trust model was possible.
Between 2018 and 2025, LinksUU progressed through multiple architectural phases, including early platform-based approaches, decentralized identity models, cryptographic verification flows, privacy-preserving authentication experiments, and failure analysis of existing trust mechanisms.
Several directions were intentionally abandoned when they introduced long-term risk, centralization, or irreducible attack surfaces.
This period included extensive self-funded R&D, rejected or declined investment offers tied to premature disclosure, and repeated architectural resets in pursuit of a solution without an Achilles’ heel.
The work was slow by design.
The defining realization of the LinksUU research was simple, but radical:
Trust does not require stored identity.
Proof does not require permanence.
Verification can exist without records.
This insight led to the emergence of a new architectural direction: Self-Certifying Cryptographic Trust.
A system where authenticity can be proven momentarily, without creating data that later becomes a liability.
By late 2025, the LinksUU research converged into a coherent trust architecture capable of supporting Proof-of-Humanity, Proof-of-Identity, zero-data verification, and cryptographic trust without surveillance.
At that point, LinksUU’s role as an R&D container was complete.
The work transitioned into UU — a protocol-level initiative focused on building and deploying this architecture as foundational digital infrastructure for a post-AI world.
LinksUU is now closed as an operating entity. Its research legacy lives on through UU.
LinksUU Technology Solutions: Closed
Research period: 2018–2025
Outcome: Foundational architecture enabling Self-Certifying Cryptographic Trust
Successor initiative: UU (Stealth Mode)
For inquiries related to the original research or its transition into UU:
founder@uu-trust.org