BTG Bridge is the consent-controlled connection pathway into BTG's data economy. It helps an individual or organization authorize specific information for defined research or commercial purposes. Where that information leads to a genuinely qualifying asset, Bit Trade Global is the separate stock-market-style system designed to list and trade lawful interests through ticker symbols, disclosures and exchange order books. Connecting a source never automatically transfers title, authorizes an investment or lists a security.
CONNECTION PRODUCT · DISTINCT FROM THE EXCHANGE
SOURCE CONTROL AND CONSENT
BTG Bridge’s public role begins with source identification and verification that the participant is authorized to grant the proposed access. A connection needs a documented purpose, classes of information, allowed recipients and processing, time bounds and retention conditions. It must not assume that an employee can license an employer’s confidential information or that a user can grant a community’s collective rights.
Permission to read a research file or sensor feed does not authorize publication, resale, training an unrelated model or transfer to a market participant. The receiving organization must be identified; restrictions, cross-border transfer obligations and any separate use agreements need evaluation. Technical logging can preserve the event and supporting approvals without exposing the payload in a public listing.
A participant’s withdrawal may block new covered uses while permitted previous disclosures or statutory retention require a separate review. The system should show the state of the request and any lawful exceptions. A technical delete flag does not automatically erase every legal obligation or economic claim, and Bridge should never promise a completed deletion without evidence.
DATA ACCESS AND PERMISSIONS
A source might be an industrial sensor archive, a research laboratory dataset, a permitted document collection, a GIS feed or a private organization’s operational system. Connecting a technical interface establishes only that a connection may be possible. Before any use, the source controller must identify the lawful authority to disclose, contractual restrictions, privacy obligations, geographic limits and whether external software may process the records at all.
An individual approval cannot override a hospital’s confidentiality obligations, an employer’s intellectual-property agreement, a public body’s statutory duties or Indigenous collective data governance. In some cases the correct Bridge decision is to refuse the handoff, use a limited remote computation or retain the data solely at the source.
A usable grant describes the selected source and record categories, permitted purpose, destination, time window, transformations and approved users. It should address export versus remote execution, retention, re-sharing, model training, commercial use and whether a new purpose requires a fresh grant. The grant also needs an identifiable authority record, a way to view the current state and a defined process for revocation or expiry.
Revocation can stop future authorized activity, but it does not necessarily undo a previously completed lawful computation, cancel a paid contract or destroy records that must legally be retained. The interface therefore distinguishes permissions for future access from historical events and obligations that remain enforceable.
A handoff record should identify the source version or fingerprint, acting controller, authorization reference, recipient service, intended purpose, permitted transformations, applicable controls, timestamp and delivery outcome. The recipient confirms what it received; a receipt proves transport or acknowledgement, not that the receiving institution independently tested the dataset or acquired intellectual-property title.
ENTITY can associate the delivered reference with parent-source restrictions and permitted downstream entitlements. ADAM enforces an accountable authorization decision when a protected state change is requested. The Transaction Fabric records the separate events so that delivery errors, retries and later disputes can be reconstructed without showing private payloads to the public.
An account being technically accessible does not mean every file, contact, message or location is commercially available. Bridge should expose which data categories are proposed for movement before an operator grants permission. Sensitive content should be minimized, masked or excluded. The destination must be bound to a specific task rather than a vague promise to gather everything that might have value later.
A hypothetical farm research project could receive permitted machine fault readings and an aggregate output schema while excluding personnel names, supplier contracts and unreleased drawings. A separate analytical model might run where the data already resides and return only a permission-cleared result. This permits useful work without forcing possession of every original source record.
A connected source is not yet a market-ready DCO. Research may establish an interesting pattern that later becomes a tested DataChip. Separate checks must still determine legal title, compatibility of parent licences, accuracy, reproducibility, utility and the right to offer a commercial use. A Bridge upload by itself does not create a share, a registered investment, a guaranteed royalty or an approved exchange listing.
The public Bridge app visuals illustrate the proposed source directory, permission review, evidence register and destination rules. They are design presentations with sample records. Any live third-party integration, security assurance or transactional capability should be represented as operational only when tested and documented.
What the records must establish
| Source | Controller, collection basis, current authoritative version |
|---|---|
| Scope | Data types, purpose, permitted recipients and transformations |
| Authority | Signed grant or governing agreement; expiry and jurisdiction |
| Handoff | Recipient, deliverable, checksum or reference, result and audit receipt |
| Downstream rights | Separate legal examination; no implicit resale, training or issuance |
