Digital Seals

Digital Seals for machine trust.

A Digital Seal is a portable trust artifact that binds execution evidence, verification signals, and policy-relevant metadata to a machine-generated output.

Definition

What is a Digital Seal.

In enterprise environments, an output is only as useful as the proof that supports it. Digital Seals help legal, audit, security, and operational teams verify what happened — not just accept a result on trust.

Validator node architecture
For AI Systems

A verifiable evidence layer.

Digital Seals give AI workflows a verifiable evidence layer that can travel across organizational, regulatory, and machine boundaries. Every sealed output carries cryptographic proof of its execution context, verification path, and compliance status.

Verifiable evidence layer for AI systems
For AI Agents

Cryptographic passports for autonomous systems.

In autonomous systems, Digital Seals function as cryptographic passports for agent-to-agent trust, machine settlement, and auditable decision exchange. When machines transact with machines, Digital Seals provide the verification layer that makes trust portable.

Cryptographic passports for autonomous agent systems
How It Works

Seal lifecycle.

Execution

AI inference runs inside an attested hardware enclave. The execution context is captured and bound to the workload.

Verification

Proof is generated through the hybrid TEE + zkML path. Evidence is validated against the protocol's verification surface.

Settlement

The verified proof settles on-chain with deterministic finality. The proof reference is anchored to block height and validator set.

Seal Issuance

A Digital Seal is issued binding execution evidence, verification signals, and policy metadata into a portable trust artifact.

Learn More

Learn how Digital Seals fit into the Aethelred architecture.