The Provenance Spine

7-Tier Living Provenance Ledger

A single explorable spine separating what was remembered, what was submitted, what was corroborated, and what was proven.

TIER 01 • CANONICAL RECOLLECTION ✓ AUTHOR COMMITTED

What Was Remembered

First-person narrative normalized into Unicode NFC UTF-8 bytes before client-side encryption.

Does not prove: That the depicted event occurred exactly as remembered.
TIER 02 • ERA & GEOGRAPHY ✓ TIME-BOUND

Historical Context

Location: Austin, Texas, USA • Timeframe: Summer 1978 • Cultural Anchor: Space Invaders Launch.

Does not prove: That official institutional archives have cataloged this location.
TIER 03 • EVIDENCE BUNDLE ✓ 3 ARTIFACTS ATTACHED

Submitted Material & Evidence

32-byte unsigned big-endian sorted evidence roots (solid brass token photograph, newspaper clip, audio recording).

Does not prove: That editorial illustrations represent pristine forensic evidence.
TIER 04 • BLIND WITNESS CORROBORATION ✓ 4 INDEPENDENT RECALLS

Independent Recollections

Witnesses committed their recollections before seeing the author's narrative or answer choices.

Does not prove: That independent recollection convergence equals historical truth.
TIER 05 • DISCLOSED REVIEW RUBRIC PARTIALLY SUPPORTED

Review Outcome

Evaluated under transparent criteria: Contextualized, Partially Supported, Contested, Insufficient Evidence, Unresolved.

Does not prove: Infallibility of the human review process.
TIER 06 • AMENDMENT LINEAGE VERSION 1 (IMMUTABLE)

Record Evolution

Amendments are append-only. Version 2 points back to Version 1 without overwriting historical commitments.

TIER 07 • CRYPTOGRAPHIC INTEGRITY ✓ EIP-712 SIGNED

Cryptographic Proof

Statement Root: 0x9d3fe4b8a10972e391b4526d708304bc0632a4e259b19e2f5926c91a0397a21f
Signed by EVM Account 0x71C8...A912 under Chain 1977 Domain Separator.

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