A system and method for coordinating accountability records across independent organizational governance domains in distributed computing environments. Gateway nodes maintain independent accountability systems including mandate records, receipt records, verification outcomes, and tamper-evident audit chains. Hub nodes coordinate cross-boundary mandates using privacy-preserving state projection that maps Gateway lifecycle states to a reduced coordination model using only cryptographic commitments, state identifiers, and digital signatures, never accessing underlying criteria or evidence. The system provides forward-secret criteria transfer through untrusted relays via ephemeral key exchange, end-to-end settlement signal signing with relay co-signatures, peer-to-peer Hub federation without mandatory central authority, cross-organizational reputation aggregation with anti-gaming measures, and Gateway revocation with broadcast propagation. A three-tier architecture (Standalone, Gateway, Hub) enables additive federation upgrade without data migration or schema changes.