Maxime Mansiet

About

I'm a software engineer working on self-sovereign identity, based in Bordeaux. I fell into computer science young and never left, drawn by the idea that code isn't just tooling, it's infrastructure for society. That curiosity led me to distributed systems, cryptography, and eventually to the question I keep coming back to: how do we establish trust without a central authority?

I build that at 2060.io, on Verana, an open trust layer for the internet. 182 merged pull requests since February 2026, across the trust registry frontend, spec-compliant credential tooling, and the resolver work that lets a verifier ask a live question instead of trusting a static list. This year I wired Verana trust resolution into eight third-party identity wallets, 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.

The same problem is arriving for AI agents, faster. I wrote Credat, an open-source library that gives agents verifiable identities and scoped delegation, and co-authored a protocol showing that two previously unknown agents can establish mutual cryptographic trust in two round trips, with under 2ms of overhead. I'm 20, and I've bet everything on decentralized identity 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 southwestern 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

2026.09Co-speaking at Global Digital Collaboration (GDC26), Geneva, on cross-ecosystem wallet trust
2026.08Joined the W3C Credentials Community Group
2026.08Joined the Trust over IP Foundation
2026.08Verana trust resolution now runs in eight third-party identity wallets, seven complete and one partial, including the EUDI reference wallet and MOSIP's Inji
2026.08First upstream contribution merged into credo-ts at the OpenWallet Foundation
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 southwestern France
2025.04Founded Klyx, a web development studio in Bordeaux

Latest posts

The Future of AI Agents Is Verifiable, Customizable, and Yours

AI agents are getting autonomous. That's powerful, and dangerous. Verifiable credentials, scoped permissions, and decentralized identity are how we make them trustworthy for everyone, not just developers.

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2026-04-16

Don't Trust Governments or Big Corps. Trust Yourself.

On trust, ZKPs, AI agents, and why self-sovereign identity is the central paradigm of this revolution.

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2026-03-15

How Agentic AI Redefines Job Searching, From OSINT to Personalized Outreach at Scale

Job boards are noisy, LinkedIn is saturated. Here's how I used OpenClaw agents, OSINT techniques and email verification to reach recruiters directly, at scale, with personalized applications.

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2026-03-10