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Spec · 2025

Astral Docs: Location Proofs

Co-founder, Astral

The 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.

docs.astral.global

Purpose

Developers building on location evidence need the framework's ideas in working, documented form rather than as theory.

Approach

Documentation for location proofs in Astral -- artifacts pairing a spatiotemporal claim with corroborating evidence, graded along a certainty spectrum rather than treated as absolute.

Status

Live documentation, maintained.

astrallocation-proofsdocumentation

Connections

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