Yes – every organization in MetaState gets its own eName, just like people do. This unique, permanent identifier ensures that all data, documents, credentials, interactions and even customer reviews tied to that company stay connected, even if the brand name, logo, or website changes.

When a company rebrands, it simply updates its public-facing information – like name, visuals, or description – while keeping the same underlying identity. That way, clients, regulators, and partners can always know who they’re dealing with, even across decades and design changes.

This permanent identity also helps track ownership changes, legal transitions, or mergers – all while preserving continuity and transparency across time. Just like with people, stability at the core means freedom and flexibility on the surface.

Your cryptographic key — which protects your digital identity in MetaState — is stored securely on your phone. But phones can break, be lost, or even stolen. That’s why MetaState includes a carefully designed, real-world-friendly recovery process.

When you set up your identity, you can also configure recovery options: this might include trusted people (social recovery), biometric proof (like Face ID), or real-world documents (such as a passport or driver’s license). These are used by independent notaries (incl. eNotaries) to help confirm your identity and issue a new key — without exposing your data to any central authority.

Even in the worst-case scenario — say, you survive a shipwreck and wash up on shore with nothing — you can still recover your identity using multiple signals that prove continuity over time.

Your digital name (eName) is never lost. What changes is the key that controls it — and MetaState gives you a safe, verifiable way to update that key, without starting over or relying on a single company.

So yes, it’s all digital — but it’s built for real life.

MetaState’s point and reward system is not designed to judge people, but to empower communities to recognize each other's contributions – both in real and digital life. In today’s society, we often have no structured way to say “thank you” or to keep track of people who quietly support their neighbors, contribute to local projects, or help others.

Let’s say someone helps repaint a bench in the neighborhood or organizes a local cleanup. In MetaState, the community can express appreciation by sending them reward points. These points are voluntary, context-specific, and meaningful only within the group that issued them. They don’t form a universal score, and they can’t be seen or used without your consent.

Think of it not as a rating system, but as contextual thank-yous — like digital letters of recommendation — that stay with you and attached to specific communities, events, or contributions.

MetaState gives you the option to carry these signs of trust with you — and show them if and when you choose, especially in a new environment where no one knows you yet.

MetaState doesn’t assign you a global, permanent “score” – that’s exactly what we’re avoiding. Instead, it introduces contextual reputation: your actions are recorded and verifiable, but always within the time, place, community, etc. where they happened.

And we know that in real life people understand context. A future employer cares about how you work now – not who you were at 18. And in many cases, people value growth: when they see how you’ve changed and matured, it builds more trust, not less.

MetaState gives you the tools to build relationships faster – by highlighting the achievements and contributions that are relevant in each context. You can’t delete the past, but you can show who you’ve become – and why that matters today.

And this works both ways: you also gain a clearer view of others. Instead of relying on guesses or surface impressions, you can access verified, contextual facts — and make your own judgment, based on what matters to you.

You’re absolutely right that reputation is subjective – and that’s exactly why MetaState makes it contextual and decentralized, not universal or top-down.

Instead, it gives you access to verifiable facts – like who endorsed whom, what contributions were made, what roles someone played in a project – and lets you interpret them.

Every review or endorsement in MetaState is cryptographically signed – no fakes, no bots, no inflated numbers. But how those signals are interpreted – by you when evaluating others, and by others when looking at you – is entirely up to individual judgment and context. For one person, a long volunteering record may mean trustworthiness; for another, technical skills may matter more. MetaState doesn’t judge – it just lets people see real, contextual input and form their own opinions. There’s no single algorithm or rating – just a shared layer of facts, owned by people, not platforms.

MetaState doesn’t tell you who’s good or bad — it just shows the facts, and leaves the judgment to each person’s own eyes and mind.

That’s how platforms work today: they reward you for staying longer, clicking more, or simply being present – not necessarily for doing something meaningful.

MetaState turns this logic around. Here, rewards come from people, not from the system. If you help organize an event, mentor someone, or contribute to a shared project, others can thank you directly by sending a signed reward.

This isn’t about popularity or gamification. It’s about restoring human appreciation, anchored in real actions. And because each reward is linked to a specific context – a group, event, or initiative – it can’t be inflated or taken out of place.

Instead of platforms assigning artificial value, MetaState helps communities recognize what they truly care about.

Quite the opposite. Today fragments of your digital identity and data are scattered across hundreds of platforms. Each time you register somewhere, the platform assigns you its own ID, demands personal data, and gains control over part of your online self. These platforms often share and enrich data about you without your knowledge – you can see this clearly in how eerily targeted internet ads have become. Anonymity on today’s internet is largely an illusion — achieving it requires being a full-time digital privacy expert.

MetaState changes that by giving you a sovereign digital self – your own eName, ePassport, and eVault. From that moment on, you decide under what name to appear in any platform (real, pseudonymous, or anonymous), and you control who can access your data, and for what purpose.

All access to your data is logged, and platforms — stripped of monopolies — must treat your data with care, knowing that any misuse damages their reputation and costs them users.

For the first time, MetaState builds a real foundation for managing your anonymity reliably — with full control, cryptographic protection, and trust that doesn’t depend on any platform.

It’s true that a lot of personal data has already been scattered across the internet — often without clear consent. But that’s exactly why we need change. Just because damage has been done doesn’t mean we should let it continue.

MetaState doesn’t promise to erase your past footprint — but it gives you something we’ve never had before: full control over your digital future. From the moment you start using your eVault, platforms no longer store your data. They access it only when you allow it, and all such access is logged. You can revoke permissions anytime, update your information once and have it reflected everywhere, and stop contributing new data to the old exploitative model.

And as competition intensifies in the post-platform world, even the old data held by platforms will come under pressure. To retain trust and users, platforms will have strong incentives to match your current permissions — or risk losing reputation and market share.

But beyond protection, there’s also power. With all your data in one place and always up to date, you become more visible and discoverable — for jobs, for services, for opportunities. You’ll no longer need to manually fill out forms or re-upload documents across platforms. Services will become more personalized, accurate, and truly competitive, because they work with the same trusted source — your eVault.

So no, it’s not too late. Taking control now doesn’t just stop the leak — it unlocks a smarter, freer, and more efficient internet.

Governments can’t be ignored – and MetaState is designed to work with them, not against them. Instead of bypassing legal systems, we provide a new, transparent framework that supports legitimate government needs (like verified identity or fraud prevention) without giving them blanket access to everyone's data.

In MetaState, access to personal data is always controlled by the individual or organization via their eVault. If a government has a legal basis – like a court order – the person can be required to disclose specific data, just like in real life. But mass surveillance or hidden data collection becomes much harder, because there are no secret backdoors or centralized registries.

At the same time, MetaState helps governments themselves. Today’s public institutions are burdened by legacy systems, duplicated registries, and excessive paperwork. By adopting eIDs and interoperable data access, governments will become more efficient, more transparent, and more responsive to their citizens.

This opens the door to lighter bureaucracy and deeper democratic participation: when identities, documents, and reputation are verifiable and portable, people can interact with institutions more directly – and institutions can focus more on service than control.

That’s why we’re actively engaging with governments and the EU to build legal recognition around this model. It’s not about avoiding rules – it’s about updating them for the digital age.

Yes – participation in MetaState is entirely voluntary. You don’t need to be part of it to live your life, belong to a community, or have your voice heard.

MetaState is not a mandatory system; it’s an infrastructure for coordination, not a gatekeeper. Communities can choose to use it to simplify how they organize voting, participation, or trust – but they can also make room for those who prefer to stay outside the system.

And even if you don’t join MetaState, you can still take part in most activities – just like someone without a smartphone can still attend a meeting or someone without email can still receive a letter.

In short: MetaState is here to make collective life easier and more transparent – but never exclusive.

Yes – just like in real life, age matters in MetaState when it comes to legal responsibility and access to certain features.

By default, full registration with an eName and control over an eVault is intended for people who’ve reached the age of digital consent, which varies by country (typically 13 to 16 in the EU). This is verified through existing digital ID systems, documents, or parental approval – depending on local regulations.

But younger users can still participate – for example, through youth accounts managed with the help of guardians, similar to how children can have bank accounts or email addresses with parental oversight.

MetaState respects age boundaries not to exclude, but to protect rights and responsibilities at each stage of life – while giving young people a safe path to grow into digital agency.