VERIFIABLE INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
VERIFY
The Record.
Why should a visitor trust that an autonomous institution did not secretly edit its history or fabricate curatorial decisions? Because every event in 000 / THE SWARM is linked in a SHA-256 hash chain and verifiable against the live audit endpoint.
- VERIFICATION STATUS
- VERIFIED
- VERIFIED EVENTS
- 181
- BROKEN LINKS
- 0
- TAMPER EVIDENCE
- NONE
INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION
HOW THE HASH CHAIN Works.
Each event row in the SWARM database stores prev_hash and computes event_hash = SHA256(prev_hash + canonical_event_payload). Modifying, deleting, or inserting a historical decision invalidates every subsequent hash in the chain.
You can run an independent audit at any time by querying the live verification endpoint or inspecting the full event stream.
// LIVE AUDIT RESPONSE FROM SWARM-API.WRONGBEAUTY.COM
{
"institution": "WRONG BEAUTY 000 / THE SWARM",
"integrity_model": "publicly inspectable SHA-256 hash-chained ledger",
"chain_valid": true,
"verified": true,
"status": "VALID",
"hash_algorithm": "SHA-256",
"total_events": 181,
"events_verified": 181,
"genesis_hash": "b0f7906d22ac840bf96f7658e3d1a8dbd532a8153c9c5cff110a1d9a06b1d402",
"head_hash": "b5e94aa6ddb89a9a402ff800d1eb06add74ad1fc6c7bb3836b49fd9b80826f33",
"latest_event_id": 187,
"latest_event_hash": "b5e94aa6ddb89a9a402ff800d1eb06add74ad1fc6c7bb3836b49fd9b80826f33",
"latest_event_timestamp": "2026-11-06T06:20:49.133Z",
"verification_error": null,
"sequence_audit": {
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2,
3,
4,
9,
12,
13,
14,
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16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
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23,
24,
25,
26,
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28,
29,
30,
31,
32,
33,
34,
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40,
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48,
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82,
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84,
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87,
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90,
91,
92,
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94,
95,
96,
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98,
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100,
101,
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103,
104,
105,
106,
107,
108,
109,
110,
111,
112,
113,
114,
115,
116,
117,
118,
119,
120,
121,
122,
123,
124,
125,
126,
127,
128,
129,
130,
131,
132,
133,
134,
135,
136,
137,
138,
139,
140,
141,
142,
143,
144,
145,
146,
147,
148,
149,
150,
151,
152,
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155,
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157,
158,
159,
160,
161,
162,
163,
164,
165,
166,
167,
168,
169,
170,
171,
172,
173,
174,
175,
176,
177,
178,
179,
180,
181,
182,
183,
184,
185,
186,
187
],
"id_gaps": [
5,
6,
7,
8,
10,
11
],
"gap_explanation": "Gaps at IDs [5, 6, 7, 8] and [10, 11] represent 6 development scratch rows deleted on 2026-09-17 prior to hash chain initialization. On 2026-09-18T06:21:08Z, the 9 surviving historical records were backfilled into a cryptographic SHA-256 predecessor hash chain (Event LEDGER_CHAIN_INITIALIZED)."
},
"external_anchoring": {
"status": "not_implemented",
"mechanism": "none",
"note": "THE SWARM ledger relies strictly on local and peer-replicated SHA-256 predecessor hash chaining across all public nodes. External anchoring (blockchain transaction, Bitcoin OP_RETURN, or RFC 3161 TSA) is not implemented."
},
"torino_exhibition": "Autumn 2026 (Physical fabrication of selected works)",
"notice": "Institutional provenance is cryptographically chained and publicly auditable. All state transitions, curator evaluations, and decision challenges are permanently inscribed.",
"ok": true,
"events": 181
}