I always thought records were for the moment something had already gone wrong. Someone questions a transfer, a decision looks strange, and only then do people start figuring out what happened.
That's why @NewtonProtocol compliance receipts kept bothering me.
Every policy evaluation already creates a record: the transaction intent, the policy that was checked, the operators that responded, the aggregate signature, and the block number. The argument is documented before anybody knows an argument will ever exist.
That feels backwards.
Most systems reconstruct evidence afterward. Newton prepares it in advance.
But one question survives.
What happens when everyone followed the policy perfectly—and the policy itself was wrong?
The receipt can prove the network did exactly what it was asked to do.
It just can't answer whether it should have been asked in the first place.
$NEWT #Newt
That's why @NewtonProtocol compliance receipts kept bothering me.
Every policy evaluation already creates a record: the transaction intent, the policy that was checked, the operators that responded, the aggregate signature, and the block number. The argument is documented before anybody knows an argument will ever exist.
That feels backwards.
Most systems reconstruct evidence afterward. Newton prepares it in advance.
But one question survives.
What happens when everyone followed the policy perfectly—and the policy itself was wrong?
The receipt can prove the network did exactly what it was asked to do.
It just can't answer whether it should have been asked in the first place.
$NEWT #Newt