An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request for trust information of an off-chain data source from a client, detecting that the trust information of the off-chain data source is not stored in a distributed ledger shared among a plurality of peer nodes, retrieving reliability data recursively identified and retrieved from a plurality of external sources having different reliability information of the off-chain data source, determining a reliability value based on a combination of the retrieved reliability data from the plurality of external sources, and transmitting the determined reliability value to the client.