100 Days of TRUF: The Complete Journey
The Source of Truth for Internet Capital Markets.
Day 100 of 100 Days of TRUF! We made it!
For more than a century, markets have run on broken signals - delayed inflation reports, politicized GDP figures, and employment stats smoothed for optics. In 2025, TRUF.NETWORK set out to prove there’s a better way: a SQL-based blockchain where data is verified, composable, and ready to power a new financial system.
That’s what the 100 Days of TRUF campaign delivered. Across one hundred days, TRUF shifted from vision to reality. Among the many milestones, a few stood out: TRUF v2 and TRUFSCAN went live, the PCE index hit the blockchain, integrations with Solana and Chainlink expanded the network. Alongside the tech, the TRUF.NATIVES stories, quests, and various contests (notably Remixing TRUF) showed a community and culture coming alive.
The campaign proved what we set out to show: TRUF.NETWORK is no longer a protocol on paper, it’s an ecosystem in motion.
See how it all unfolded in our 100-day journey video:
Missed the whole journey? Here's your speed run. Been following since Day 1? Here's the victory lap!
Days 1-30: The Foundation - Why Truth Can't Wait
The first month wasn't about features or partnerships. It was about the "why”, and that why was urgent.
The Business of Data (and Why It's So Broken)
We started by explaining the crisis. Most people don't realize just how manipulated, outdated, and one-dimensional the world's economic data is, and how much damage that causes in finance, policy, and beyond.
A breakdown of how governments fudge inflation, GDP, and unemployment stats and how Web3 can do better.
Forget Wall Street. Indexes are the new frontier for gains, built on verified data and on-chain transparency.
From broken metrics to real-time truth - why TRUF matters now more than ever in today’s economic landscape.
Insights from Stefan Rust’s SuperExcited Chat with Anthony Pompliano.
Index.fun: Wall Street meets Crypto Twitter - and now everything’s tradable.
Why Inflation Isn’t One Size Fits All. When the headlines scream “Inflation is at 3.2%,” what does that actually mean for you?
Why TRUF.NETWORK is sharing Truflation’s open letter to U.S. leadership on the future of inflation measurement.
How Truflation tells you the inflation direction - before the Fed even sees it.
When data gets decentralized, the power shifts - and the future of finance belongs to those who can see it coming in real time.
What We Shipped (and What's Live)
No vaporware. Major upgrades and tools for builders:
Decentralized truth just got a serious upgrade. Time to ship.
Our explorer now shows live streams, validators, and full index history. Clean UI. Real insights.
How TRUF.NETWORK Combines BFT Consensus with Postgres to Build Trustless, Reliable Data Infrastructure.
Connect to your local TRUF node, run a live index query, and match it to the TRUFScan Explorer UI.
How TRUF.NETWORK SQL Smart Contracts can overcome the limitations of Ethereum and enable more powerful decentralized applications.
How the Model Context Protocol brings context-awareness, interoperability, and collective intelligence to autonomous agents across trustless systems
Ecosystem Growth & Partnerships
The network effect started here:
The Growing Movement of Data Providers, Innovators and Institutions.
How to build and trade your own indexes, and early access to the Creator tool.
A Conversation Between WeatherXM and TRUF.NETWORK/Truflation.
Bring it on!
Track the top AI assets in real time. Authored by Truflation. Traded on-chain. Powered by TRUF.NETWORK
The growing ecosystem of independent data providers powering the TRUF.NETWORK
Community & Token Foundations
Meet the humans behind the protocol. These team members share how they’re helping make decentralized truth a reality - and why it matters beyond the tech.
We handed the TRUF logo over to the TRUF.SEEKERS community and said: go wild
TL;DR: Data is power. So let's make it open, composable, and actually trustable.
Days 31-60: Infrastructure - From Vision to Velocity
The first month showed why decentralized truth is non-negotiable. The second proved it could be built and adopted.
Prediction markets broke in real time. Builders arrived. Partnerships landed. And TRUF.NETWORK stopped being a promise of the future - it became a competitive edge.
The Foundation: Building on Solid Ground
One of Bitcoin’s sharpest voices brings protocol expertise to TRUF.
We offered free real‑time data for 6 months to highlight how delayed info bleeds money.
A unified crypto market cap index with transparent methodology.
Usher Labs co-founder breaks down why data provenance isn’t optional, it’s critical infrastructure for prediction markets and real-world assets.
The Ecosystem: Real Builders, Real Applications
Early access + rewards for TRUF community.
Truflation + Levitate Labs deliver 8M+ price points on Inflection Network.
Because even revolutionaries need good merch.
Index.fun on Sonic proves prediction markets can be milliseconds-fast and verifiable.
Prediction markets cut through noise and bias, but only if their resolution systems can resist manipulation. Enter TRUF.NETWORK.
Two more voices from inside the mission, sharing why building truth infrastructure isn’t just technical work, but a personal conviction.
The Infrastructure: Truth as a Service
Billion-dollar question: who decides what happened? Spoiler: smart contracts can’t. TRUF will feed them verifiable reality.
veTRUF holders get a measurable voice via proposals + signal votes.
Just a database? Try a global, permissionless SQL backbone with Byzantine fault tolerance.
Today’s prediction platforms resolve outcomes in fragile ways, decentralized or regulated, with critical trade-offs. TRUF maps the way forward.
The Philosophy: Why Truth Infrastructure Matters
What happens when hedge funds don’t just bet on events, they engineer them?
AI agents are here. They think, act, transact, and demand verifiable data.
TRUF token aligns incentives across data providers, index creators, and consumers.
The Market Reality: When Systems Break
Whale votes ≠ truth. Prediction markets keep failing at resolution.
Every evolution in prediction markets exposed new trust gaps. TRUF closes them.
$237M markets need verifiable feeds, not committee votes.
The Acceleration: Next-Gen Financial Infrastructure
The backbone of autonomous, financial intelligence.
Why autonomous markets need cryptographic guarantees.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev was right. Now TRUF is proving it.
Three landmark U.S. laws light the path for compliant DeFi.
Why Money needed Bitcoin, and Data needs TRUF.
TL;DR: From vision to velocity - TRUF went live, governance began, and builders piled in.
Days 61-99: Reality - From Infrastructure to Critical Mass
The final 40 days weren't just about reaching Day 100. They were about proving that TRUF.NETWORK had crossed the threshold from promising infrastructure to essential reality.
The Mission Gets Personal
How our CEO Stefan Rust is rebuilding trust from the data up.
If Bitcoin fixed money and Ethereum fixed contracts, TRUF fixes data.
AI Meets Finance
MCP (Model Context Protocol) and ACP (Agent Communication Protocol) turn isolated AI tools into coordinated financial networks.
The Next Frontier of Autonomous Prediction Markets. When machines bet on the future, who verifies the world they're betting on?
Recent research shows AI agents systematically collude without human coordination. The single point of failure isn't just endangered - it's under siege.
Breaking: Major Infrastructure Launches
A four-day buildup pointing to something bigger - setting the stage for the Solana + Chainlink CCIP launch.
Unlocking the most innovative perpetuals and prediction markets in DeFi, powered by Chainlink CCIP.
The PCE Price Index, live, transparent, and public. It runs on TRUF.NETWORK.
The U.S. SEC greenlights in-kind creations and redemptions for Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. The liquidity floodgates are open.
A showcase of indexes as tradable prediction markets, proving how fast new markets can spin up on TRUF.
Technical Breakthroughs
Data up. Storage down. Speed maxed.
AI agents can now tap into verifiable real-world data through SQL.
The full technical architecture behind the programmable truth layer.
A deep dive on resolvers - and why programmable, verifiable truth is the missing layer prediction markets can’t survive without.
Market Recognition
When macro experts like Andreas Steno Larsen call official inflation data broken and point to Truflation as the alternative, the shift is undeniable.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics gets a new leader who knows firsthand the challenges of restoring trust in America's economic data.
Governments are starting to agree: transparent, programmable data isn't just nice to have, it's necessary.
Internet Capital Markets Go Live
The weird, wild future of Internet Capital Markets. WeatherXM feeds. Deadlift indexes. OnlyFans economics. All becoming tradable signals.
Six pizza shops around the Pentagon become a DEFCON status algorithm. Data layer → Index layer → Market signal.
From early whispers to public price - turn private signals into on-chain, tradable truth.
Community Programs Launch
Free access to Truflation for students. First 3 months free for everyone else.
One guest. One shot. One SuperExcited podcast appearance with our CEO Stefan Rust
Create unique indexes, win prizes, earn revenue share.
Final Infrastructure Pieces
TRUFscan reveals exactly how each index is built, stream by stream, weight by weight, source by source.
100,000 TRUF in rewards over 7 days for liquidity providers.
Beyond Day 100: What's Next
The first 100 days proved the concept. The next 1,000 will shape the future.
The Next Phase: Critical Mass
- Global Infrastructure: scaling to billions of daily truth-verification requests.
- Industry Integration: forging deep partnerships with the world’s largest platforms, governments, and institutions.
- Advanced Applications: unlocking financial products and markets that were never possible before.
- AI Integration: powering autonomous agents and swarm intelligence with verifiable truth.
The Bigger Picture
TRUF.NETWORK is critical infrastructure for the information age, as fundamental as internet protocols or cryptographic standards.
The campaign was called 100 Days of TRUF. But it proved something bigger: that Internet Capital Markets aren’t just possible, they’re inevitable. And with TRUF.NETWORK, that future is already here.
Now it’s your turn:
- Spin up a node.
- Get your data attested.
- Build the apps, markets, and indexes you always wanted - but never had the source of truth for.
- Tap into TRUF.NETWORK so others can build on top of what you create.
We’re only just getting started.