TrustFlow: Turning Real-World Actions into On-Chain Truth

Hi dev.to community 👋

I’m building TrustFlow, an open protocol that aims to solve a gap many of us keep re-implementing in different ways:

Smart contracts are deterministic, but real-world execution is not.

TrustFlow models real-world, multi-party processes as verifiable state machines.

Execution happens off-chain, evidence is collected and verified, and only finalized state commitments are anchored on-chain for settlement and dispute resolution.

Key ideas:

• Protocol-first (not a vertical app, not SaaS)
• Clear separation: execution → verification → settlement
• Minimal on-chain footprint, dispute-aware by design
• Designed to generalize beyond any single use case

The current repo includes a car rental workflow as a reference implementation — not because rental is the goal, but because it’s a good example of a dispute-prone, real-world process.

I’d really appreciate feedback on:

• The protocol abstraction itself
• Missing edge cases or failure modes
• Similar problems you’ve faced in Web3 or hybrid systems
• Whether this feels like a useful primitive or over-engineering
  Repo & docs: https://trustflow.live
  Thanks in advance for any thoughts or criticism.

Repo & docs: https://trustflow.live

Thanks in advance for any thoughts or criticism.