Today’s institutions obsess over verification while quietly neglecting the harder problem: endurance.

Organizations ask whether a claim can be checked, but not whether it can survive—whether it can be carried across platforms, outlast vendors, resist erasure, and still speak with authority when everything around it has changed.

What matters is not that a record can be verified once, but that it can be produced again and again, by its holder, without permission, without translation, and without institutional scaffolding.

Verification answers Is this true?

Durability answers the more dangerous question: Who can still act when the system that issued the answer is gone?

More on this in 2026.

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