Assertion
Every Attestation expresses a specific assertion. The assertion should be sufficiently bounded to identify what is being stated without implying a broader conclusion than the available authority and evidence support.
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Attestations
An Attestation is a governed, attributable assertion used by Satoshium Attestor to express a bounded statement about a subject, record, relationship, condition, event, or other trust-relevant matter.
An Attestation preserves what is being asserted, who or what is responsible for the assertion, the scope in which it applies, the evidence and authoritative references that support it, and the provenance necessary for review.
Boundary: An Attestation is an Attestor object. Referencing an
authoritative Suite object does not transfer that object's authority to Attestor.
Attribution
An Attestation must preserve the responsible attesting actor, system, or institutional process so that the assertion remains attributable and reviewable.
RequiredSubject & Scope
The subject identifies what the Attestation concerns. Scope defines the boundary within which the assertion is intended to apply and helps prevent a narrow statement from being interpreted as a universal conclusion.
RequiredEvidence & References
An Attestation may reference evidence, certifications, registered records, Chronicle entries, integrity references, discovery metadata, or other governed sources. Those references retain their original authority and meaning.
ProvenanceStatus & Lifecycle
Attestations use the adopted Lifecycle States draft, active, superseded, withdrawn, and retired. Correction and review are governed activities rather than lifecycle states.
GovernedTrust Statement Relationship
An Attestation is not itself Attestor's final canonical output. Eligible Attestations, evaluated with their evidence, provenance, status, and limitations, support the production of Attestor Trust Statements.
Output PathAttestation Structure
The Attestation architecture establishes the normative structure and canonical identifier ATT-YYYY-NNNN. Canonical machine-readable serialization, executable validation, governed review, conformance evaluation, lifecycle control, and publication have now been exercised in production.
ATT-YYYY-NNNN → Type → Attesting Authority → Subject → Assertion → Scope → Eligible References → Provenance → Relationships → Lifecycle / Publication State
Adopted Attestation Types
Attestor uses six controlled Attestation Types: identity, evidence, source-provenance, verification-related, relationship-condition, and correction-supersession.
Type classifies the assertion. Type does not establish Eligibility,
transfer authority, or predetermine an Evaluation Outcome.
Attestation and Evidence
An Attestation and its supporting evidence are not the same object. The Attestation expresses the assertion. Evidence and authoritative references provide the basis against which that assertion may be evaluated.
Evidence supports an Attestation. It does not become true merely because it is
referenced, and the Attestation does not become the authority for the evidence.
Attestation and Trust Statement
Attestations provide structured inputs to Attestor's trust-specific evaluation. A Trust Statement is the canonical Attestor output produced when eligible inputs have been evaluated under Attestor rules with appropriate provenance, scope, status, and limitations preserved.
Eligible Governed Inputs → Attestation → Rule-Constrained Evaluation → Trust Statement
Published Attestations
ATT-2026-0001 is the first canonical production Attestation published by Satoshium Attestor. It is Active · Published · V1.0 and concerns SC-CERT-2026-0001.
Production capability has been demonstrated. Each future Attestation remains
independently subject to applicable Attestor governance, Validation, Review,
Conformance, lifecycle, and publication controls.
View ATT-2026-0001 →
Authority Boundary
Attestor may attest to matters involving objects governed elsewhere in the Satoshium Suite, but an Attestation does not certify on behalf of Certifier, register on behalf of Registry, preserve history on behalf of Chronicle, establish integrity on behalf of Anchor, or create discovery authority on behalf of Beacon.
Reference does not transfer authority.
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