Acquaintance
I may need to recognize you.
Hometown trust · cosmic scale
The first viable person-to-person authentication since the days when you knew everyone in town.
Abracadoo is a free, open-source app designed to let trust flow in loops and scale from the two of us to the entire universe — one loop at a time. The 🜁 at the beginning of the Semantic Overnet. Welcome.
- Local-first
- Human-mediated
- Authenticator-compatible
- Open protocols
The simple model
Trust becomes legible when it moves in paths and loops.
Abracadoo names the relationship itself instead of pretending one master identity can carry every context.
Path
A one-way route for trust or communication.
Loop
Two connected Paths that have carried a reciprocal exchange.
Relationship
A witnessed Loop.
Not another identity stack
Human before technical. Magical but grounded.
Not this
- Cold enterprise identity
- Cyberpunk surveillance
- Institutional permission
- Wallet-first identity
Instead
- Hometown recognition
- Human-mediated trust
- Local-first sovereignty
- Open protocol magic
What works today
A small, useful beginning.
The current Abracadoo MVP creates local HumanKey acquaintances using Authenticator-compatible TOTP tokens. It is intentionally simple: create, share, recognize, and keep your trust material local.
The app is a lantern to return us to contact-based trust - no cloud required.
Try the live app →Protocol-native
From two people to a universe of witnessed trust.
1Create a Pathone-way recognition possibility
2Exchangehuman-mediated confirmation
3Complete a Loopreciprocal trust event
For builders
Open enough to inspect. Warm enough to invite.
Abracadoo should be easy to explain to a neighbor and serious enough for protocol people to inspect. The work starts with HumanKey, then grows toward reciprocal loops, relationship proofs, and consent-aware trust surfaces.