Anchoring
Publication of an attestation batch’s Merkle root on a ledger we do not control. That is what makes precedence assertable: without anchoring, a signature only proves that a key holder signed, not that they did so before today. The anchor driver is pluggable — a local driver exists so the stack runs offline, and it anchors nothing in the above sense.
Related notions
What the blog says
- Who Owns the Proof?
Elinor Ostrom (Nobel 2009), the governance of the commons, and the question that killed the agricultural-data platforms: proof whose value lies in its mass can only belong to those who create it.
- Everything Was Fine the Day Before
Taleb’s turkey, the optimization that hides its trade-off, the aviation industry that learns: why an opaque chain breaks silently, then all at once.
- A Proof Is Not a Fact. It Is a Path.
What makes a proof is neither sincerity nor precision, but continuity: a chain of transformations in which every link remains reversible.
- Who Keeps the Register?
Power does not reside in knowledge but in the place where inscriptions converge. The real question is not “do we need a register”, but who audits it.
- Signer, relier, publier
Un système de preuve fait trois choses distinctes. Pourquoi la signature vient d’abord, pourquoi relier fait le vrai travail, et à quel moment une chaîne devient nécessaire.
Where it is implemented
lib/onchain-anchor.ts