The Global Acceptance Network: Implementing Decentralized Digital Trust Infrastructure at Scale

The Global Acceptance Network (GAN) is a new layer of digital public infrastructure for the Internet — comparable in some ways to the Internet’s current Domain Name System (DNS). The GAN will enable people, organizations, and “things” (e.g., devices, software, AI bots) to form and maintain sustainable digital trust relationships using open standard digital wallets, digital credentials, and trust registries. This new utility is designed to address many of the current ills of the Internet, including spam, phishing, fraud, malware, ransomware, and other persistent security, privacy, and trust issues that have plagued the Internet because its original design did not include this trust layer.