> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.presschain.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Glossary

> Definitions for the protocol, publishing, identity, economic and infrastructure terms used across PressChain V3.

# Glossary

This glossary favors precise protocol meaning over broad industry definitions. If a term has a narrower meaning in PressChain, the narrower meaning is documented here.

## Active bond

A role bond currently satisfying the protocol requirement for an action that demands bonded participation. Role existence and active bond state should be checked separately.

## Action policy

The V3 rule set that describes an operation’s economic class, role eligibility, bond requirements and other authorization constraints.

## Authority

The canonical source that determines the meaning or valid configuration of protocol state. V3 authority files outrank stale client constants and archived design documents.

## Bond

PRESS committed to satisfy an eligibility or accountability requirement. A bond is different from a protocol fee and different from network gas.

## Capsule

The canonical PressChain publication record. A Capsule uses a `bytes32` identifier and anchors author, outlet, content hash, metadata hash, status, timestamps and revision context.

## Canonical metadata

Normalized metadata serialized according to a defined schema so independent implementations can produce the same bytes and hash.

## Community evidence

Evidence submitted through the broad participation path by an authenticated PressKey identity, subject to economic, validation, quota and anti-abuse rules.

## Content hash

A cryptographic commitment to the exact canonical bytes of an artifact. A matching hash proves integrity relative to the commitment, not factual truth.

## Contributor

A wallet attached to one Capsule with contributor role, contribution type, share basis points, attribution URI and active state.

## Dispute evidence

Evidence submitted through the dedicated challenge path. Current V3 evidence source reserves type `255` for dispute evidence.

## Economic class

One of `none`, `bond`, `micro`, `standard`, `elevated` or `funded`. The class describes economic semantics and is separate from the environment-specific amount.

## Evidence tally

Support, reject and participation counts plus status and finalization state for an evidence item.

## Explorer

The Blockscout-based chain interface plus PressChain-specific semantic views for protocol records.

## Finalization

A protocol transition that closes an evidence decision according to the active finalization rule. Finalization is not equivalent to proving a real-world statement true.

## Funded action

An action that carries or escrows value for the operation itself, such as bounty creation.

## Indexer

Independent infrastructure that projects authoritative chain state into query-friendly storage. An indexer can enrich data but does not replace protocol authority.

## Mainnet readiness gate

A required condition that must be satisfied before approved mainnet launch, including protocol, PressKey, Explorer, SDK, Feed Intelligence, economy, security and rehearsal requirements.

## Metadata hash

A commitment to canonical Capsule metadata bytes.

## Official evidence

Evidence attached through the canonical privileged path by an actor satisfying the required role, bond and Capsule relationship or administrative authority.

## Outlet

The organizational publishing context associated with a Capsule. Outlet authority is distinct from generic protocol role.

## PRESS

The native PressChain economic asset used for bonds, fees, funded actions, rewards and treasury policy. Current balances are testnet-only.

## PressKey

The browser-native PressChain identity and signing surface exposed through `window.presschain` in the current extension.

## Projection

A read-optimized representation derived from canonical chain data. Search documents, API records and Explorer semantic views are projections.

## Protocol role

One of the canonical V3 role IDs: Reader, Author, Journalist, Editor or Validator.

## Provenance

The identity, source, relationship, hash and historical context that explains where a record came from and how it changed.

## Recovery epoch

An authority marker used to distinguish the currently recovered canonical V3 environment from historical deployment state. Current value is `1`.

## Revision

A later version or change associated with a Capsule while preserving historical publication commitments.

## Role weight

A numeric input available to protocol processes that explicitly use role weighting. It is not a universal trust score.

## Trust Object

A broad structured model containing identity, source, content, entities, claims, evidence, relationships, provenance, trust, risk, visibility and an optional Capsule record.

## V3

The active PressChain protocol major. Current authority does not permit introduction of a new major until after mainnet launch and stability review.