Attestation & the verified badge

What a joiner provides:

• A display name — the name shown publicly for the joiner.
• Their class — person or family, small business, or institution. The same criteria apply to each.
• Identity checks — a light check before creating and testing, and full identity verification and sanctions screening before publishing. Twin checks identity documents at the door and does not keep them.
• Acceptance of the joining terms — the exact version accepted stands as a matter of record, so the terms a member agreed to can never be quietly changed afterwards.

What the public can see: a joiner's display name, class, and standing — and for each published chain, that it is entered in the family's record, anchored, and in good standing, or that it has been suspended or severed. The identity checks themselves are not public.

Twin never holds a member's keys or funds, and nothing about attestation can move either.

A chain publishes when three things stand true at once: its joiner has completed the full identity checks, its joiner has accepted the current joining terms, and the chain meets the published standards below. The same three conditions apply to everyone, they are applied automatically, and there is no editorial step — nobody at Twin approves a chain because they like it.

The standards a chain is held to:

• Created from one of the family's templates (the first version of the door).
• Its supply is fixed exactly as declared — no unlimited minting, no hidden minting, no hidden pause, no transfer taxes.
• Its name and symbols are unique — they collide with no existing record, imitate none, and do not mimic the family's own five coins.

1. The member's public record stands complete and current: entered, anchored, and in good standing.
2. The member has completed the full identity checks — identity verification and sanctions screening.
3. The member has accepted the current joining terms.
4. The chain meets the published standards: its supply is fixed exactly as declared, with no hidden minting, no hidden pause, and no transfer taxes.
5. The chain's name and symbols collide with no existing record and imitate none.
6. The chain is anchored to the Hub on its recorded cadence, and its anchors verify.
7. The chain stands in good standing — not suspended, not severed.

The badge is revocable: if a record stops meeting the criteria, the badge comes off, and the change is written to the transparency log like every other registry event.

There is one gate and one set of criteria: no faster lane and no paid lane exists. Whether a paid express review may ever be offered is an open question reserved for legal review — it is not part of this design today. No fee buys a verdict.

• It is not an endorsement. Twin does not recommend any chain or any coin.
• It is not a safety guarantee. A badge says a record met published criteria — nothing about whether a chain is well run, or safe to use.
• It says nothing about price. Badge or no badge, the coins are not for sale on this site and carry no market price here.
• It is not a regulator's approval and not an exchange's clearance. No regulator has approved Twin or any chain on it.
• Anchoring stays tamper-evidence only. A badged chain's anchors prove its history was not quietly rewritten after the anchor point; they do not make its transactions safe and do not give it the Hub's security.
• No badge is not an accusation. An unbadged chain has simply not been attested.