Provenance
Provenance is the chain of evidence from the frozen seed to the bytes at your address. Forked Felines records it before each Feline is reserved and publishes it once the Feline is confirmed.
The evidence on every Feline's card
| Line | What it proves |
|---|---|
| Frozen seed | The single input the whole collection was drawn from |
| Recipe digest | The exact recipe, traits and weights included, that drew this Feline |
| Artwork digest | SHA-256 of the exact SVG bytes that were inscribed |
| Artwork bytes | The exact byte length of the inscribed SVG |
| Release identity | The pinned studio release that drew the bytes |
| Inscription ID | Where those bytes live on Bitcoin |
Each value is recorded at reservation time, before inscription. The inscription is then constructed only if freshly generated bytes hash to the recorded digest, and portraits are only ever served after the same check. One record, enforced at every step.
How to verify a Feline yourself
- Open the Feline's page at
forkedfelines.art/collection/<edition>and note its artwork digest, byte length, and inscription ID. - Fetch the inscription's content bytes from your own node or any Ordinals-aware explorer you trust, using the inscription ID.
- Hash the bytes with SHA-256 and compare with the digest on the card. Check the byte length too.
If they match, the artwork at that inscription is exactly what the house committed to before it was inscribed. You have verified provenance with no trust in the house's servers.
# example: hash downloaded inscription bytes
shasum -a 256 feline.svgWhy lists are not enough
Most collections circulate as ad-hoc lists of inscription IDs, which explorers and marketplaces cannot verify against anything. Forked Felines binds each ID to a pre-recorded digest, a recipe, and a seed, so the collection's membership and its artwork are both checkable facts rather than claims.
What is deliberately not in the evidence
No market data, no price history, no ranking. Provenance here is about what the object is, not what someone paid for it.