Overview

An item is a single unit of data submitted to Truestamp for timestamping. Its fingerprint is built from independent parts, described in the item’s composite fingerprint: a claims hash over the submitted data, a metadata hash recording the moment of submission, and an item hash binding both (together with the item’s ID and signing-key ID), which becomes a Merkle-tree leaf in a Truestamp block. Every item belongs to exactly one team and carries both a transferable owner (a user or a team) and an immutable creator record, a split explained in ownership versus authorship. An item advances automatically through the item states created, processing, and committed, as covered in the item lifecycle.