Tollbooth Authority New England

A sub-regional certifier, itself certified by Tollbooth Authority North America — which demonstrates the thing the architecture was built to allow: Authorities vouching for Authorities, down to whatever granularity a community actually wants.

Operators serving New England patrons may choose this one to keep certification latency and audit trails as local as the protocol permits. Register, receive Nostr-signed certificates on every purchase order, settle the ad valorem fee over Lightning.

Subsidiarity, expressed in software. The matter is handled by the smallest competent authority, and the larger one is there to vouch rather than to absorb.

At a glance

🔓 Apache 2.0 top to bottom — no open core, no paid tier
🔌 Built on FastMCP 3.4.7 — any compliant MCP client connects
🤝 Honors the DPYC Social Contract
🔑 Credentials optional. Where a service needs a password or bearer token, it travels by encrypted Nostr DM and never sits in your config
⚡ Any Lightning wallet. Wallet of Satoshi for reliability

Links

GitHub: lonniev/tollbooth-authority
🔌 Connect: tollbooth-authority-newengland.fastmcp.app/mcp