Cascade Proof

The Verification Standard for Causation in the Age of Perfect Simulation

When AI can fake every credential, every portfolio, every reference, and every interview—how do you prove a human being actually caused anything?

The problem: Every proxy we’ve used to measure human value—grades, resumes, engagement metrics, citations, performance reviews—becomes unreliable when AI achieves perfect behavioral replication. Credentials can be fabricated. Work histories can be synthesized. References can be generated. The verification crisis is here.

The solution: Cascade Proof is the first cryptographic standard that proves causation through the only pattern simulation cannot replicate—multi-generational capability cascades where Person A increases Person B’s capability, B independently enables C without A present, capability persists over time, and effects branch exponentially across human networks.

Why it works: This pattern is information-theoretically unfakeable. You cannot forge another person’s cryptographic signature verifying you increased their capability. You cannot fake temporal persistence verified years later. You cannot simulate exponential branching when each node requires genuine emergence. AI can help—but only consciousness can create cascading capability multiplication.

This is the standard. Open protocol. Anyone can implement. No one can own. Released under Creative Commons to ensure causation verification remains public infrastructure, not proprietary product.

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→ Read the Manifesto — Why this is inevitable
→ See the Specification — How to implement
→ Explore Research — The science behind cascades