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Glossary
Block Commitment
The second Truestamp commitment event: finalized block hashes are batched into an epoch whose single Merkle root is recorded on a public blockchain (Stellar MEMO_HASH, Bitcoin OP_RETURN), moving each covered block from finalized to committed and adding an external timing witness.
Epoch
The batch Truestamp uses for Block Commitment: all block hashes finalized since the last commitment of a given kind form one Merkle tree whose single root is recorded on a public blockchain, with each chain (Stellar, Bitcoin) advancing its own independent series of epochs.
Epoch root
The single Merkle root summarizing every block hash in an epoch, the exact value written on-chain as a Stellar transaction memo hash or a Bitcoin OP_RETURN payload, carried in a proof bundle as each commitment's epoch_merkle_root and the root its epoch_proof walks a block hash up to.