The Decision Ledger

Today we're publishing the Hermes Decision Ledger: a public record where every decision Hermes makes gets a row before its outcome is known. It is live now at solace.fyi/trust.

The problem it answers is old. Anyone can post winners after the fact. Screenshots appear when trades go well and vanish when they don't. The only defense a reader has is a record that exists before the outcome does. So that is what the ledger is.

The rules

Sealed first. A row is created the moment Hermes decides: a posture change, a path taken, a stand-down. The outcome column is empty because the outcome doesn't exist yet. Nothing is written after the fact.

Everything counts. Waits and no-trade decisions get rows. Losses and drawdowns get rows. Nothing is deleted; the database itself refuses. Rows physically cannot be deleted or edited once sealed.

Named at close. While a position is open, the ledger shows that capital is committed and how the open exposure is doing, but not the instrument. Symbol and side are revealed when the path closes, printed next to the realized result. You can hold the record accountable without being able to front-run the system.

Mechanism stays private. Entries, exits, position sizes, and thresholds never appear. The ledger proves discipline, not the recipe.

Verifiable by math, not by promise

A rule that says "we don't edit history" is still a promise, and promises are what the ledger exists to replace. So the ledger's integrity is checkable:

Every row carries a SHA-256 hash computed when it is sealed, chained to the hash of the row before it. Editing any historical row — a word, a timestamp, a number — changes its hash and breaks every row after it. A short public script, published at solace.fyi/verify-ledger.mjs, recomputes the entire chain from the public ledger data, so "the record was never touched" is a claim you can test rather than trust.

What the ledger is not

As of this writing (July 2026), the capital at risk is the founder's own, and no customer funds are managed. If that ever changes, the ledger and the technical brief will say so before it does. The sample is young, and the page says so on its face: the ledger is a record, not a claim, and it contains no performance claims. It will fill at the speed Hermes decides, which, by design, is slower than you'd think. Standing down is a decision too, and it gets a row.

The record is public from its first row. It starts now, at solace.fyi/trust.