Maxime Mansiet

About

I'm a software engineer and researcher in Bordeaux. I fell into computer science young and never left, and I've spent the years since on a single question: how do you establish trust without a central authority? A wallet refuses a request it cannot verify. An AI engine will describe a company to a stranger with no verification at all. Unverified actors and unverified statements are the same problem seen from opposite ends, and I work on both.

The first end is Verana, at 2060.io, an open trust layer for the internet. This year I wired Verana trust resolution into third-party identity wallets and solutions, among them the EUDI reference wallet, MOSIP's Inji, Talao, Sphereon, Paradym and Procivis One. Every one of them shipped with a hardcoded list of issuers it trusts. Replacing that list with a live, fail-closed call is the whole idea. I co-authored the Verana trust specifications, built the wallet conformance suite that checks those integrations hold under real flows, took Verana into France Identité's EUDI playground, and contribute to credo-ts at the OpenWallet Foundation, part of LF Decentralized Trust since September 2026. I'm a member of the W3C Credentials Community Group, the Trust over IP Foundation, the Agentic AI Foundation and the Linux Foundation.

The same problem is arriving for AI agents, faster. I co-authored a protocol showing that two previously unknown agents can establish mutual cryptographic trust in two round trips, with under 2ms of overhead. The other end is CiteMe, which I co-founded and where I'm CIO, measuring what AI engines say about a company. That answer becomes a reputation for whoever reads it, nobody at the company was asked, and nothing on the open web lets a model check who is behind a claim. I'm 20, and I've bet everything on this being one of the foundational problems of the next era, for people and for the agents acting on their behalf.

Before tech, I trained as a competitive parkour athlete with the French Gymnastics Federation from 2017 to 2025. In 2025 I co-founded PKBA, now the largest parkour club in southern France. Discipline, pattern recognition, and learning from failure fast: sport and systems thinking have more in common than they appear.

Research Interests

  • • Trust Registries & the Trust Registry Query Protocol
  • • Cross-Ecosystem Wallet Interoperability
  • • Agent Identity, Delegation & Scoped Authorization
  • • Credential Exchange Protocols (OID4VP, OID4VCI, SD-JWT VC)
  • • Trust Frameworks & Governance Models

News

2026.09Preprint out: Conformant but Not Compatible, an interoperability study of production identity wallets
2026.09Co-authored the Verana trust specifications
2026.09Attended Global Digital Collaboration (GDC26), Geneva, on cross-ecosystem wallet trust
2026.09Joined the Agentic AI Foundation
2026.09Joined the Linux Foundation
2026.08Verana trust resolution running inside France Identité's EUDI Unfold playground on testnet
2026.08Joined the W3C Credentials Community Group
2026.08Joined the Trust over IP Foundation
2026.08Verana trust resolution now runs in third-party identity wallets and solutions, including the EUDI reference wallet and MOSIP's Inji
2026.08Contributor to credo-ts at the OpenWallet Foundation, part of LF Decentralized Trust since September 2026
2026.06Co-founded CiteMe, generative engine optimization, as CIO
2026.03Claw4S protocol paper accepted, agent-to-agent trust with did:key and Verifiable Credentials
2026.02Published Credat, an open-source trust layer for AI agents using DIDs and VCs
2025.09Joined 2060.io as a software engineer, building SSI infrastructure on Verana
2025.07Co-founded PKBA, the largest parkour club in southern France
2025.04Founded Klyx, a web development studio in Bordeaux

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