Trust Everything, Everywhere (V1)

Document type: Opportunity space

Authors: Alex Obadia

Date published: 11 July 2025

Version: 1 (View the latest version)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.67475/teewzw9-2mjb

Abstract

Software is transcending digital screens to shape the physical world, connecting cyber instructions to real-world outcomes. We are entering a new cyber-physical age that can bring great benefits for humanity: interactions like bioprinting medicines from an online file, tasking an embodied AI agent to run errands for us, or outsourcing an experiment to a self-driving lab are nearly within reach. 

Yet, without the right trust infrastructure, we risk every interaction to incur a steep ‘trust overhead’, making it slower, costlier, and less certain or worse, not happen at all. 

The solution is a new trust infrastructure that extends formal security reasoning into the physical world. This will unlock trillion-pound cyber-physical markets and a society free to trust everything, everywhere.

Trust Everything, Everywhere was one of ARIA's original opportunity spaces. Following an evolution of our research portfolio in August 2026, it now sits within the updated Trust Everything, Everywhere opportunity space. The beliefs and observations that defined the original opportunity space still hold, and its remit continues in full within with respect to both future programmes and seed funding. No active funding was affected by this change.