Merkle root
Single hash summarising an entire attestation batch. Anchoring that one value is enough to make every attestation in the batch verifiable through a short inclusion path — which is what allows thousands of facts to be anchored for the cost of one.
Related notions
Equivalents elsewhere
- Same as Wikidata
What the blog says
- 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.
- 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