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Defined by our Programme Directors (PDs), opportunity spaces are areas we believe are likely to yield breakthroughs.

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In Trust Everything, Everywhere, we believe new trust infrastructure that extends formal security reasoning into the physical world will unlock trillion-pound cyber-physical markets and a society free to trust everything, everywhere.

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Creating a new trust infrastructure will unlock the cyber-physical economy. The trust building blocks that enabled today’s £24-trillion digital economy, like encryption and cryptographic signatures, do not extend to the physical world.

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Formal security reasoning is key to designing new cyber-physical trust building blocks: rooted in different assumptions (e.g. quantum physics instead of computational hardness), and living in alternative informational substrates (e.g. DNA instead of bits).

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AI will make secure cyber-physical interactions accessible to everyone. The next generation of trust infrastructure will allow AI systems to generate customised, on-demand protocols in situ for any given cyber-physical interaction, spanning atoms, molecules, waves, and bits. 

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Some signposts as to why we see this area as important, underserved, and ripe.

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Download as a PDF here, or the accessible version here.

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To help guide our thinking and shape a programme in this space, we funded a series of short, exploratory research projects running from December 2025 to February 2026. These projects ranged from exploring aspects of Arena design, diving into topics around physical trust and AI security theory, and running community events such as a hackathon.

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The Trust Everything, Everywhere Discord server provides a space for collaboration and discussion amongst ARIA funded projects as well as the wider community, where we encourage members to share insights, ideas, and build in public.

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All official updates related to the Trust Everything, Everywhere opportunity space will be published on the ARIA website.
 
Please note that we will not be able to answer any questions regarding open funding calls in this forum. If you have any questions, please use the chat function on the relevant funding pages for the quickest response. It can guide you to the right information or connect you with the ARIA team if needed.

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