The Surface

Evidence-Native Commerce across every regulated vertical.

The primitive does not change when the vertical changes. A license check, a gold assay, a container signature, a custody transfer, and a clinical record access all anchor through the same Knox mechanism and can be independently verified against the same Bitcoin chain.

Category 01

Financial Services

The Problem

Every trade, every settlement, every transfer is reconciled against institution-owned logs. When those logs are the same enterprise being audited, reconciliation is self-attestation.

What Knox Adds

External Bitcoin witness for every state-changing event. Ledger entries are hashed at commit, rolled into hourly Merkle trees, and published outside any bank's administrative boundary.

Standards & Framework
FRE 902(13)NIST SP 800-53 AU-10SOC 2 CC7 (design-alignment target)Reg 23A/23B compliance posture
Category 02

Federal Contracting

The Problem

Subcontractor status, foreign ownership, sanctions posture, and past performance drift between award and delivery. Point-in-time checks are stale the day after.

What Knox Adds

Every registry check anchored externally at the moment of verification. Continuous re-verification on an hourly cadence; status changes anchor immediately with before-and-after state.

Standards & Framework
FAR 52.204-25 (Section 889)NIST SP 800-171 (design-alignment target)CMMC Level 2 (planned)OFAC SDN screening
Category 03

Healthcare

The Problem

Protected Health Information access, record modification, and clinician decisions are logged inside the same EHR system being audited. HIPAA audit trails satisfy the regulation but not the skeptic.

What Knox Adds

Every access event, every record mutation, every AI-assisted clinical inference hashed at source and anchored externally. Independent of any EHR vendor.

Standards & Framework
HIPAA § 164.312(b) (design-aligned)21st Century Cures Act42 CFR § 423.566HITECH breach notification
Category 04

Legal & eDiscovery

The Problem

Evidence authenticity rests on chain-of-custody logs the producing party controls. In an adversarial posture, that is precisely the weakest anchor.

What Knox Adds

Every piece of digital evidence hashed at ingestion. Every custody transfer atomically anchored. Every AI-assisted analysis receipt bound to the underlying model and inputs.

Standards & Framework
FRE 902(13)FRE 902(14)Sedona Conference principlesFederal Records Act
Category 05

Supply Chain & Software Provenance

The Problem

Software bills of materials, signatures, and attestations live inside the same registries the producing enterprise controls. External attestation closes a compromised-registry attack path no internal control can.

What Knox Adds

Every SBOM, every signature, every in-toto attestation anchored externally with a single outbound HTTPS call. Pipeline-agnostic, failure-safe, asynchronous.

Standards & Framework
EO 14028OMB M-22-18NIST SSDF SP 800-218CISA Secure Software Self-Attestation
Category 06

Regulated Commerce & Media

The Problem

Content platforms cannot prove a broadcast happened, what was said, or what was decided about it. Moderation decisions disappear; disputes collapse into he-said-she-said.

What Knox Adds

Every stream start, every chat message, every AI moderation decision — classification, reasoning, frame hash — anchored with model identity and timestamp.

Standards & Framework
47 USC § 230DMCA § 512State-level content retentionFTC endorsement guides
Category 07

Precious Metals & Bullion

The Problem

Safe-keeping receipts, assay reports, and vault transfers rely on custodian-issued paper. The single largest fraud vector in collateralized lending is the same bar pledged to three lenders.

What Knox Adds

Every assay verified, every pledge anchored, every transfer atomically signed. Double-pledge attempts refused at the registry layer. Public pledge-check without authentication.

Standards & Framework
LBMA Good Delivery (pilot-ready adapter)COMEX Approved Depository (pilot-ready adapter)OCC 12 CFR 1UCC Article 9
Category 08

Real Estate & Titled Assets

The Problem

County-recorder title records and UCC filings are state-by-state, paper-first, and slow. Lien priority disputes surface weeks after disbursement.

What Knox Adds

Instant national pledge-check. Atomic transfer with release-and-accept signatures. Full provenance walkable on-chain.

Standards & Framework
UCC Article 9RESPADodd-Frank Title XIVState recorder statutes
Category 09

Defense & National Security

The Problem

Continuous ATO, RMF attestation, and supply-chain integrity evidence are produced and stored inside the same administrative boundary the mission depends on. Insider-compromise scenarios leave no independent witness.

What Knox Adds

Anchor-point coverage designed for: cATO assessments, SBOMs, configuration baselines, and classified-container attestations. The architecture places the witness outside the enclave. No DoD deployments to date; capability available for pilot.

Standards & Framework
DoD IL5/IL6 (planned)NIST SP 800-53 AU-10 (design-aligned)RMF / cATO (design-aligned)Section 889CMMC Level 2 (planned)
Prove Our Work

Every claim on this page resolves to a live endpoint.

Paste any SHA-256 hash from any Knox receipt into the Explorer and the response returns the full proof chain back to a Bitcoin block. No Bonis cooperation required.