Axiom V: Reputation Integrity

No entity – neither Chapter, nor Sovereign, nor Federation itself – may forge, erase, corrupt, or selectively withhold the attestation record of any Sovereign.

The attestation record is the cryptographically signed history of a Sovereign’s transactions, agreements, and dispute outcomes. It is fact, not opinion.

No one is compelled to vouch for another. But what has been attested may not be deleted, altered, or hidden.

“Selectively withhold” means the censorship of existing attestations; it does not mean the refusal to create new ones. No Sovereign is compelled to attest. But what is attested cannot be unwritten.

Mechanism

Cryptographically signed attestation records, Bitcoin-anchoring of the Attestation-Log. Tamper-proof by design. ChapterPassport as immutable record.