Library · 2025
Astral Compute
Astral Compute evaluates spatial predicates -- distance, containment, intersection -- inside a trusted execution environment and returns cryptographically signed results that a third party can verify.
Purpose
Verified locations and trusted zones still need a trustworthy join -- an evaluation whose result a third party can check rather than take on faith.
Approach
A geospatial compute service running PostGIS operations -- distance, containment, intersection -- inside a trusted execution environment, returning signed results usable off-chain or on-chain.
Status
Research preview; live hosted service with documentation.
Connections
Related Notes
Astral API
PreviewThe Astral API indexes location attestations from the Ethereum Attestation Service across chains and serves them through OGC-compliant REST and GraphQL interfaces backed by PostGIS.
Astral Docs: Location Proofs
ActiveThe Astral documentation describes location proofs as verifiable artifacts pairing a claim about the timing and position of an event with corroborating evidence, graded along a certainty spectrum rather than treated as absolute.
Astral Docs: Location Records
ActiveThe Astral documentation describes location records -- signed, verifiable location data artifacts that add cryptographic attribution and integrity checking to raw geospatial data.
Astral: a spatial extension for the decentralized web
ActiveThis FOSS4G North America 2025 talk introduces Astral: the Location Protocol for signed spatial records, a modular library of location-proof strategies, and Spatial.sol utilities for smart contracts.
Astral SDK
ActiveThe Astral SDK is a TypeScript library for creating and verifying location attestations -- signed records that bind location data to a signer and a time, off-chain or on-chain via the Ethereum Attestation Service.