  The Synchronic Web is a distributed network for securing data provenance on
the World Wide Web. By enabling clients around the world to freely commit
digital information into a single shared view of history, it provides a
foundational basis of truth on which to build decentralized and scalable trust
across the Internet. Its core cryptographical capability allows mutually
distrusting parties to create and verify statements of the following form: "I
commit to this information--and only this information--at this moment in time."
The backbone of the Synchronic Web infrastructure is a simple, small, and
semantic-free blockchain that is accessible to any Internet-enabled entity. The
infrastructure is maintained by a permissioned network of well-known servers,
called notaries, and accessed by a permissionless group of clients, called
ledgers. Through an evolving stack of flexible and composable semantic
specifications, the parties cooperate to generate synchronic commitments over
arbitrary data. When integrated with existing infrastructures, adapted to
diverse domains, and scaled across the breadth of cyberspace, the Synchronic
Web provides a ubiquitous mechanism to lock the world's data into unique points
in discrete time and digital space.
