Open Research Framework

Portable, Offline-Verified Digital Provenance

A comprehensive framework for creating self-contained provenance packages with multi-ledger time evidence, verifiable entirely offline without network connectivity or institutional infrastructure.

18
Specifications
7
Case Studies
<2s
Verification Time
$0.0015
Per 1K Claims

Provenance Without Infrastructure Dependencies

Existing provenance systems fail when network connectivity is unavailable or institutional infrastructure collapses. Eternity Layer solves this.

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Offline Verification

Complete verification on air-gapped systems without any network access. Deterministic accept/reject decisions regardless of connectivity.

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Multi-Ledger Anchoring

Time evidence anchored to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Arweave. Composite Finality Score (CFS) aggregates trust across independent ledgers.

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Portable Packages

Self-contained Eternity Packages (EP) bundle content, signatures, and proof bundles into a single portable artifact.

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Deterministic Canonicalization

EL-C14N-v2 ensures byte-identical representations across implementations, eliminating verification ambiguity.

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Sovereign Identity

EL-DID provides decentralized identifiers with full-root resolution, independent of any central authority.

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Token-Free Economics

Sub-cent anchoring costs at scale without protocol tokens. Verifiable service receipts enable sustainable operation.

Three-Layer Architecture

Content → Cryptographic → Anchoring

Content Layer
EL-RM2 · SHA3-384
Merkle Root
Crypto Layer
EL-C14N-v2
Signatures · DID
Anchoring Layer
BTC · ETH · AR
Anchor-Proof v1.1
Eternity Package (EP)
Portable · Self-contained · Offline-Verifiable

Complete Specification Suite

18 interoperable specifications covering canonicalization, packaging, anchoring, identity, and verification.

EL-C14N-v2
Canonicalization
Deterministic JSON normalization
EL-RM2
Content Commitments
Rolling Merkle multi-hash
EP-v1.1
Package Format
Self-contained provenance bundle
Anchor-Proof
Time Evidence
Multi-ledger proof bundles
CFS-v2
Finality Score
Composite trust aggregation
EL-DID
Identity
Decentralized identifiers
OKB
Key Binding
Organizational attestation
VCE-v2
Similarity Evidence
MinHash / SimHash detection

Publications & Archives

Peer-reviewed research with fully reproducible implementations and open-access archives.

Survey Paper · 2025

Eternity Layer: A Comprehensive Survey of Portable, Offline-Verified Digital Provenance with Multi-Ledger Time Evidence

Mohamed Ibrahim · December 2025

Zenodo · Archived

Eternity Layer v2: Complete Specification Suite

18 PDF specifications · Apache 2.0 License · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17483637

Documentation & Tools