Proof of Recovery
Part of Continuity, and its sharpest claim. The useful proof is not that a provider says it still has your file: it is a periodic demonstration that the resource can actually be reconstructed — fragments present, redundancy sufficient, reconstruction possible, integrity intact — without transferring the whole dataset just to check.
The ten layers
There is no prover, no verifier and no challenge protocol in the software today. It is written down here because it is the condition the rest of the data layer is designed around, and because a layer named in an architecture ought to be findable — with its status attached — rather than mentioned once and left ambiguous.
A provider can prove it holds the bytes it was given and still be unable to return your data: shares lost at other providers, redundancy silently eroded, an encoding whose parameters no longer reconstruct. Proof of possession answers a question about one provider. Recovery answers the question the owner actually has.
A recovery test that requires downloading everything is a test nobody runs often enough to matter. The design target is a sampled, challenge-based demonstration whose cost is small and whose failure is loud — because the value of this layer is entirely in how frequently it can be afforded.
Once recovery is demonstrable it becomes an escrow condition, and storage stops being a subscription paid on trust: value releases as the provider keeps proving the resource can be rebuilt, and stops when it cannot. That is the mechanism this layer exists to enable.
Sovereign post-quantum network for verified value.
Post-quantum cryptographic security software: a sovereign network that strengthens custody, settlement and identity. Testnet active; mainnet opens when independent validation supports it. Ten layers, each with its own page and its real state on it: four running, six still a design.
