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Claims
The user-supplied data map an item is made of - a required name plus optional external content hash and algorithm, description, URL, location, freeform metadata, and user timestamp, JCS-canonicalized so the claims hash stays independently reproducible by the submitter.
Claims-only submission
Submitting an item without an external hash so the claims themselves are the timestamped content of record; requires a description of at least 32 characters or non-empty metadata, and the JCS-encoded claims must fit the team billing owner's per-plan byte budget (256 B Free up to 16 KB Enterprise).
JCS (JSON Canonicalization Scheme)
RFC 8785, the deterministic JSON serialization Truestamp applies to a JSON map (item claims and metadata, block metadata, entropy values, commitment data) before SHA-256 hashing, so the same logical data always yields the same bytes and the same hash regardless of key order.