ANCHORS · OPEN RECEIPT FAMILY FOR EU LAW

Cryptographic proof
for the EU's digital decade.

Anchors is a family of nineteen wire formats that produce signed, independently verifiable receipts for the events EU law now treats as auditable — consent, retention, transfers, AI evaluations, delegations, breaches, subject rights, and impact assessments.

Apache-2.0 · CC0 spec19 families · public verifierSpec on GitHub
Spec on GitHub →Verify a receipt →

DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Signed at source

Every receipt carries an Ed25519 signature from the issuing system's registered key. No retroactive edits, no silent reissues, no central authority to compel.

Anchored daily

Receipts are committed into a daily Merkle root published at a fixed URL. Tampering invalidates the root — the failure mode is visible to anyone who keeps a copy.

Independently verifiable

The wire format, the verifier, and the test vectors are public. Any third party can check a receipt without contacting the issuer.

19 RECEIPT FAMILIES

Each member commits to a different kind of fact. They share a single envelope, Ed25519 signature scheme, and Merkle anchoring — they differ only in what the receipt body claims. The wire identifier ar.<noun>.v<N> is the contract.

PROVENANCEOrigin attestation for artifacts and AI-generated outputs
PRIVACY LIFECYCLEGDPR and related privacy-law obligations — consent through closure
DATA OPERATIONSTokenization, transfers, evaluations, attestations, and delegation
AI & AGENT PROVENANCETamper-evident records for autonomous actions and AI-output pipelines

Any receipt.
One verifier.

verify.dekimu.com ↗

All 19 families resolve to a single endpoint. Paste any claim ID to verify a receipt, check its anchor, and inspect the issuer signature.

STANDARDS POSTURE

Open specification

CC0 spec, Apache-2.0 code. No specification fee, no member-only access.

RAND-Z patent posture

W3C-style non-assertion covenant in PATENTS.md. Any conformant implementation runs royalty-free.

Conformance program

Test vectors, a clean-room verifier, and a public anchor probe. Third parties prove conformance without our cooperation.

Transferable governance

Designed for CEN-CENELEC JTC 21, ETSI TC ESI, or W3C VC. RAND-Z IPR, published change-control process.

ENDPOINTS

Verifierhttps://verify.dekimu.com
Issuer key cataloghttps://verify.dekimu.com/.well-known/dekimu-claim-keys.json
Spec repository (CC0)https://github.com/dekimuhq/anchors-spec
Regulation-as-Code spec (CC0)https://github.com/dekimuhq/regulation-as-code
Patent covenanthttps://github.com/dekimuhq/anchors-spec/blob/main/PATENTS.md

Anchored Receipts are cryptographic provenance and privacy-lifecycle protocols. verify.dekimu.com is a reference implementation, not a qualified trust service under Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 (eIDAS) or successor.