A Static Ledger Clearing design allows the Intergalactic Timebank to run as a lightweight JavaScript system on static sites while preserving strong identity and signature guarantees. Instead of putting every Voz transaction on chain, each community publishes an append-only log of signed transaction receipts as simple JSON files. These logs can be hosted on ordinary web hosting, Git repos, or IPFS, and can be federated by linking to each other and crawling each other’s heads. Each transaction is signed by the sender’s towel identity and is content-addressed so that tampering is obvious. A transaction includes the sender and receiver identifiers, the Voz amount, a timestamp, and a per-signer chain pointer such as a previous transaction hash and sequence number. This per-signer chain prevents accidental replays and makes deliberate forks detectable. Off-chain transactions are treated as low-trust until they are cleared, meaning they can exist publicly without being considered final. Clearing happens in batches. One or more clearing agents crawl the federated static ledgers, validate signatures and local policy rules, and build a batch manifest containing a list of included transaction hashes and a Merkle root. The batch is then co-signed by the governance structure, typically a threshold of recognised signers defined by the Pangalactic Constitution. Once governance signatures exist, the batch becomes the canonical cleared set for that epoch even if other candidate batches exist. On-chain anchoring is used as notarisation and auditability rather than as the transaction engine. Periodically, the Merkle root of a governance-signed batch is anchored on chain, alongside a policy version and the governance signature proof or reference. This allows anyone to prove that a specific transaction was cleared by providing the transaction JSON and a Merkle inclusion proof against an anchored root. In this way the system achieves practical finality without expensive consensus for every small event. This architecture preserves the non-market nature of Voz. Voz is an internal mutual credit accounting unit whose validity comes from cleared batches, not from external price discovery. The static ledger is where creativity and high-volume low-stakes activity happens, while the chain provides slow, boring, reliable settlement. The result is a HomeLab-friendly platform that can scale from local experiments to inter-ledger federation while keeping the same towel identity and signature infrastructure throughout.
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