Official · Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Bahamas Trust Gateway · Sovereign Digital Trust Infrastructure

The trust layer for every Bahamian transaction.

Government systems, courts, regulators, banks, attorneys, and businesses connect to the Gateway to verify, execute, certify, validate, and audit digital transactions — and receive an official Trust Report at the end of every act.

Create Trusted TransactionVerify a Record
Gateway online·Official service of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Step 1 · Pick a transaction

Create a Trusted Transaction.

Every transaction type ends with a Government Trust Report. Pick one to walk through what the gateway does — and what the originating system receives back.

No. 01Registrar General
Business Registration

Filed via RGD portal

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No. 02Land Registry
Land Transfer

Submitted by attorney

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No. 03Supreme Court
Sworn Affidavit

Court filing portal

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No. 04Issuing authority
Government License

Regulator workflow

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No. 05Judiciary
Court Filing

Court registry

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No. 06Council / Board
Professional Certification

Regulator approval

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No. 07Any party
Document Verification

Reference or QR

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No. 08Commissioned officer
Digital Notarization

Embedded in app

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No. 09Counterparty
Signature Validation

Reference or QR

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In 30 seconds

Understand the platform in five answers.

1
What it is

A national transaction trust layer — not a portal citizens use.

2
Problem it solves

Digital transactions today can't be trusted as legally defensible records.

3
How it connects

Government systems call the gateway to verify, sign, witness, notarize, and approve.

4
What government receives

A sealed Trust Report attached to every act — verifiable forever.

5
Why it matters

Faster service, lower fraud, defensible records, new revenue, sovereign control.

How it integrates

Citizens stay where they started.

The Gateway sits between the government portal and the official record. Citizens only visit Bahamas Trust Gateway directly when they want to verify a record.

Origin
Government portal, court system, regulator, bank, or law firm
Trust Gateway
Verify · Execute · Certify · Validate · Audit
Identity, signatures, witnesses, notary, approvals, audit trail.
Returned to
Originating system, with a sealed Trust Report attached
For government

Why government needs this — even with National Digital ID.

National Digital ID
Proves who someone is.

A National Digital ID confirms identity. It does not certify a transaction, capture witnesses, apply a notarial seal, record approvals, or issue a tamper-evident record of what happened.

Bahamas Trust Gateway
Proves whether a transaction can be trusted.

The Gateway uses identity (including National Digital ID where available) and adds signing, witnessing, notarization, approvals, audit trail, and the Government Trust Report — making the transaction legally defensible.

Global comparison

Where the Gateway sits on the world map.

Existing tools solve one layer. The Gateway is sovereign trust orchestration for The Bahamas — combining identity, signature, witness, notary, government approval, validation, and audit into one national layer.

Vendor / modelPrimary roleOperates as national trust layer?
DocuSignElectronic signaturesNo
Adobe Acrobat SignElectronic signaturesNo
EntrustIdentity & PKI vendorPartial — components only
IDEMIAIdentity & credentials vendorPartial — identity only
JumioIdentity verificationNo
OnfidoIdentity verificationNo
NotarizeRemote online notarizationNo
Estonia (X-Road model)Government data exchangeYes — for data; trust layer separate
Bahamas Trust GatewayTrust orchestration across identity, signature, witness, notary, approval, validation, auditYes — sovereign, national

Vendor names belong to their respective owners. Comparison reflects public product positioning and is for illustration only.

Who uses it

The institutions that depend on national trust.

Government agencies

Connect existing portals to add verified transactions.

Courts

Accept sealed filings without separate authentication.

Registrar General

Verified incorporations, beneficial owners, and filings.

Land Registry

Notarized conveyances tied to title.

Regulators

Issue and revoke licenses with public verification.

Banks

Verify customers and signed instruments in real time.

Insurance companies

Bind policies on verified identity and documents.

Attorneys

Run conveyances and incorporations end-to-end.

Notaries

Apply seals through a journaled, audited workflow.

Businesses

Sign contracts and verify counterparties.

Citizens verifying records

Check any sealed document from a phone.

International counterparties

Confirm Bahamian acts without intermediaries.

Revenue model for government

A self-funding national trust utility.

The Gateway runs as a sovereign utility. Fees are set by government and collected at the act, not the citizen.

Per identity verification

Charged to the originating system when a person is verified.

Per signature

Charged per legally binding signature applied.

Per witness event

Charged when a witness is bound to an act.

Per notarization

Charged per notarial seal applied.

Per Trust Report

Charged on issuance of the final sealed report.

Per license verification

Charged to regulators publishing verifiable licenses.

Private-sector API access

Tiered access for banks, insurers, and enterprises.

Agency subscription

Flat annual fee for high-volume government departments.

Enterprise verification access

Bulk verification for fund administrators and registries.

What the Gateway does

Five layers, every transaction.

1
Verify

Confirm who's involved and what's real.

2
Execute

Bind signatures, witnesses, and approvals.

3
Certify

Apply official seals and notarial acts.

4
Validate

Confirm against the national record.

5
Audit

Issue the tamper-evident Trust Report.

Interactive demos

Watch a real transaction flow through the Gateway.

Each demo ends with a Government Trust Report — the same artifact your agency would receive in production.

Scenario 1
How a new company registration flows through the Trust Gateway

Origin: Registrar General's Department · Online Filing Portal

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How a property conveyance flows through the Trust Gateway

Origin: Conveyancing firm · Department of Lands and Surveys

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How a sworn affidavit flows through the Trust Gateway

Origin: Supreme Court of The Bahamas · Court Filing Portal

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How a professional license issuance flows through the Trust Gateway

Origin: Bahamas Medical Council · Licensing System

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The artifact

Every transaction ends with a Trust Report.

One sovereign-issued document attached to every completed act — with trust score, risk score, identity, signatures, witnesses, notary, approval, timestamp, audit trail, QR code, verification ID, issuing authority, and public verification link.

Official Trust Report
Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Bahamas Digital Trust
Report no.
TRX-449-BN-2024
Issued
18 November 2024 at 6:02 pm
Risk
Low
Status
Complete
Reference
LR-2024-008-441
Why not 100
  • −2Buyer signed via power of attorney rather than in person.
What this is about

Conveyance · 12 Bay Street, Nassau

People involved
  • Ingraham Holdings Ltd.
  • M. & A. Bethel
Issuing authority
Land Registry, Department of Lands and Surveys
Verification ID · Reference
TRX-449-BN-2024 · LR-2024-008-441
Public verification link
https://bsdigitrust.btcicauction.com/verify?id=TRX-449-BN-2024
Legal basis

Designed for alignment with Bahamian electronic transactions law and future digital trust regulations.

What we checked
IdentityConfirmed
BusinessConfirmed
DocumentConfirmed
LicenseCurrent
CompliancePassed
SignaturesDone
WitnessesDone
NotarizationSealed
ApprovalApproved

The Commonwealth of The Bahamas confirms this transaction was completed by verified people, recorded on the national register, and is legally binding under Bahamian law.

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