The former Exonym GmbH ceased trading on 31 December 2025. Exonym continues as a project. Project status

Exonym · civic technology project

We created Decentralized Rulebooks to empower trust, democracy, and self-regulation on the Internet.

The idea

It’s hard to know who to trust online.

Trust online is reaching a breaking point. Between misinformation, anonymous users, and advancing AI, it is increasingly difficult to know who or what to believe.

Decentralized Rulebooks explore a simple premise: rules and standards can be expressed through portable credentials, so trust does not have to depend on one platform or one central authority.

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A public-interest question

What could governance look like if the web’s users had more agency?