Cascade Proof: The Verification Layer
When AI can fake every credential, every portfolio, every reference—how do you prove you actually caused anything?
The problem is existential: By 2027, AI will generate perfect resumes, flawless interviews, impeccable work histories. Behavioral observation fails completely. Credentials become unfalsifiable. Every signal employers, institutions, and markets rely on becomes replicable by simulation.
Only one pattern remains unfakeable: Multi-generational capability cascades.
When you genuinely increase someone’s capability, and they independently increase others’ capability, and those cascades persist over years with cryptographic verification at every node—that pattern is information-theoretically impossible for AI to replicate.
Not because AI lacks sophistication. Because consciousness-to-consciousness capability transfer creates temporal, branching, independence-verified patterns that simulation cannot fake even with infinite computational power.
What Cascade Proof Does
Cascade Proof is the open verification standard enabling individuals to cryptographically prove causation through capability cascades that persist, branch, and multiply across years.
It provides:
– Cryptographic attestations from beneficiaries whose capability genuinely increased
– Temporal persistence tracking showing which capabilities lasted months and years
– Independence verificationproving beneficiaries succeeded without continued dependency
– Branching pattern analysis demonstrating multi-generational capability multiplication
Why It Requires Portable Identity
Cascade Proof only works if ”you own your cascade graph”. If platforms control your verified capabilities, they can:
– Delete proof you exist
– Trap you in their ecosystem
– Modify verification rules retroactively
– Erase your causation when platforms fail
Portable Identity ensures: Your cascade graph belongs to you cryptographically. Portable across all platforms. Survives any institutional failure. Proves your causation forever.
The Stakes
This is civilization’s last verification method when everything else can be perfectly faked.
Without Cascade Proof: humans become indistinguishable from synthetic entities exhibiting perfect behavior while causing nothing.
With Cascade Proof: consciousness remains verifiable through the only pattern simulation cannot replicate.
[Explore the complete technical standard →](https://cascadeproof.org)
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Cascade Proof is the verification layer within Portable Identity infrastructure—ensuring proof of causation survives the age of perfect simulation
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