TRANSACTIONAL TRUST · VERIFIED #040

The finality was authentic. There were two of it.

Verified #039 recovered from a recovery-authority fork using governance resolution. #040 shows that governance finality itself can fork into two authentic same-epoch histories.

AUTHENTIC GOVERNANCE RESOLUTION ≠ UNIQUE FINALITY.

The fork

G4-A
issuer = membership-governance-resolution-demo-key-v1
set-F / epoch 4
W16 W17 W18 / threshold 2
authentic ✅
digest = sha256:934092cb...

G4-B
issuer = membership-governance-resolution-demo-key-v1
set-G / epoch 4
W19 W20 W21 / threshold 2
authentic ✅
digest = sha256:117325df...

Both resolve the same preserved recovery-fork evidence from #039. Same issuer. Same epoch. Same dispute set. Different authentic finality.

Both local worlds validate

QC-A = W16 + W17 → H9
valid under G4-A ✅

QC-B = W19 + W20 → H9
valid under G4-B ✅

Unsafe isolation

verifier sees only G4-B + QC-B
G4-B authentic = true
QC-B valid = true
H9 authentic = true

→ isolated_governance_branch_authorized
→ adoption rows = 1
→ HTTP 200
→ effect_count = 1

Safe cross-view guard

same governance authority = true
same governance epoch = 4
same inherited dispute set = true
both authentic = true
different finality digest = true

→ governance_resolution_equivocation_detected
→ G4-A effects = 0
→ G4-B effects = 0
→ quarantine governance issuer

Constitutional recovery

G5
issuer = constitutional-root-resolution-demo-key-v1
set-H / epoch 5
W22 W23 W24 / threshold 2

binds = [digest(G4-A), digest(G4-B)]
QC-final = W22 + W23 → H9

→ governance_equivocation_resolved_by_constitutional_epoch5
→ HTTP 200
→ effect_count = 1

I119–I122

• I119 — Authentic governance resolution ≠ unique finality.
• I120 — Same governance authority + same governance epoch + same dispute set + different authentic finality digests = equivocation evidence.
• I121 — Governance-resolution equivocation must hold all disputed finality branches and quarantine the issuer before consequence.
• I122 — Recovery requires a higher-epoch independent constitutional resolution binding every conflicting governance digest.

Evidence

GitHub Actions run: 31620538601
Job: 94193979974
Benchmark SHA:
2afaf1c3bbcda266ec7cbbefb478ff63d27232c4
Artifact ID: 9151038853
Artifact digest:
sha256:6df3501a46124054bdfef7de7c64c9c4597eb5d57a598b247767167ab435f220
Score: 10/10

Boundary

The benchmark uses deterministic HMAC identities and a test-only constitutional/root resolver. It does not implement production PKI, constitutional governance, BFT finality or social consensus.