GLOBAL-FINALITY-STANDARD · v1.0.0

Global Finality Standard

Building an implementable public contract for post-action truth, finality, and evidence-qualified economic certainty across agentic and real-world consequential actions.

Machine-readable index Run the conformance path

Finality Passport

Portable closure proof without collapsing integrity into truth.

A GFS closure passport is issued only after required predicates pass. It can then be represented with the W3C Verifiable Credentials 2.0 data model. This release implements a reference ES256 JOSE path; COSE, Data Integrity cryptosuites, and SCITT remain explicit deployment contracts until their actual verifiers and services are integrated and evidenced.

01GFS PassportClosure truth

02VC 2.0Portable representation

03JOSE ES256Reference implementation

04COSE / Data IntegrityContract-only

05SCITTExternal transparency contract

06RegistryReopen / supersede

Canonical GFS record

{
  "$id": "https://finality.standard/gfs/1.0.0/schemas/closure-passport.json",
  "title": "Closure Passport",
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "required": [
    "schema",
    "passportId",
    "finalityId",
    "registryState",
    "closureVersion",
    "issuedAt",
    "evidenceLevel",
    "reopenable",
    "scope",
    "limitations",
    "contentHash",
    "truthBoundary"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "schema": {
      "const": "gfs.closure-passport.1.0"
    },
    "passportId": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 3,
      "maxLength": 128
    },
    "finalityId": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^fid_[A-Za-z0-9_-]{4,64}$"
    },
    "registryState": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "FINAL",
        "CORRECTED",
        "SUPERSEDED",
        "REOPENED",
        "DISPUTED",
        "REVOKED",
        "EXPIRED",
        "FAILED"
      ]
    },
    "closureVersion": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "issuedAt": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time"
    },
    "evidenceLevel": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "E0",
        "E1",
        "E2",
        "E3",
        "E3+",
        "E4",
        "E5",
        "E6"
      ]
    },
    "reopenable": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "scope": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 3,
      "maxLength": 2000
    },
    "limitations": {
      "type": "array",
      "minItems": 1,
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "minLength": 3,
        "maxLength": 1000
      }
    },
    "verificationRef": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 128
    },
    "contentHash": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[a-f0-9]{64}$"
    },
    "truthBoundary": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 10,
      "maxLength": 2000
    }
  }
}

Portable representation

{
  "schema": "gfs.passport-credential.1.0",
  "format": "W3C_VC_2_0",
  "mediaType": "application/vc",
  "credential": {
    "@context": [
      "https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/v2"
    ],
    "id": "urn:gfs:passport:psp_0001",
    "type": [
      "VerifiableCredential",
      "FinalityPassportCredential"
    ],
    "issuer": "https://finalitygroup.com/issuers/finality-group",
    "validFrom": "2026-08-13T09:50:00Z",
    "credentialSubject": {
      "id": "urn:gfs:finality:fid_example_0001",
      "passportId": "psp_0001",
      "registryState": "FINAL",
      "closureVersion": 1
    }
  },
  "truthBoundary": "W3C VC 2.0 data-model representation of a GFS passport. The representation does not prove the truth of the underlying finality claim; that remains governed by GFS closure predicates and evidence."
}

Normative truth boundary

Cryptographic verification is not the same as truth.

The Global Finality Standard is a public-safe contract specification. Conformance to a schema or profile is an internal, self-declared statement unless independently assessed. Nothing in this standard implies certification, partnership, endorsement, live integration, buyer acceptance, regulatory approval, or production deployment by any referenced protocol, network, vendor, or standards body.

E0: Concept or specification
E1: Implemented component
E2: Internally verified
E3: Integrated internal demonstration
E3+: E3 plus institutional-conversion controls and reproducibility
E4: Buyer-controlled environment validation
E5: Qualified independent external assurance
E6: Sustained production or market evidence
Internal ceiling: E3+ — Verifier fixtures, schema validation, and profile conformance in this package are internal controlled evidence at E3/E3+ only.
E4: Buyer-controlled environment validation is PENDING and cannot be self-declared.
E5: Qualified independent external assurance is PENDING and cannot be self-declared.
E6: Sustained production or market evidence is PENDING and cannot be self-declared.