What it proves, and what it does not
Universal Record proves three things about a record, and nothing more.
What the record certifies
Three properties, and only these three:
Provenance
Who recorded the event, where, on which day, in what sequence. Every entry belongs to exactly one recorder's chain.
Grounding
The entry references the source it was made from: the receipt, the work order photo, the file. It does not float free of its evidence.
Chain integrity
The entry has not changed since sealing, and neither has anything sealed before it. One pass of recomputing the hashes checks the whole history.
“We don't say what is true. We say this happened.”
The record is neutral. It certifies that an event was recorded, what it was recorded from, and that the record is intact. It does not assert that any claim inside the record is true or correct. Judgment stays where it belongs: with the auditor, the agency and the people the record feeds. The record's job is narrower and harder: making sure the record they judge is the record that was made.
What an entry is not
Not a coin, and not a cryptocurrency. There is nothing to buy, sell or speculate on.
Not a security. It cannot be transferred and it confers no financial interest.
Not a truth claim. It certifies that an event was recorded and that the record has not changed. Nothing more.
Where this stands today
- The demo on this site runs on sample data in your browser.
- In housing, regulated events are logged as they happen today.
- The sealed ledger, and the page where an outsider checks a record, are built and being switched on.
- No other industry is live yet.