An open protocol for public trust and accountability on the web
Chronicle turns costly digital action into a public graph of shared evidence that clients can use to compute trust, reputation, and other signals.
The broader philosophical framing appears in Compass for the Good.
How Chronicle works
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A client publishes one of the events from the registry
For example, a client can publish an
email:verifyevent foralice@example.comand back it with real sacrifice. - A Chronicle node validates, batches, and anchors it The node validates the event, publishes it off-chain in a batch, and anchors the batch root hash to Bitcoin.
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Other clients can use that public record
Other clients can use that public record as one input when judging
whether future messages from
alice@example.comare trustworthy.
Chronicle is being developed in public. Open an issue on GitHub if you want to propose a refinement, suggest a new kind for the registry, point to prior art, or raise a question.