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#accountability

Optimistic by construction — what the log promises, and where the rollup analogy honestly stops

The Lean Transparency Log looks a lot like an optimistic rollup for verification claims — cheap to assert, expensive to get away with. The resemblance is real and worth having, but the precise version is better than the slogan. Three layers of guarantee, two very different kinds of fault, three honest disanalogies, and one loop that needs no metaphor at all.

The log notarizes itself — entry 13

The Lean Transparency Log has always notarized proofs about other people's software. As of today it notarizes the proofs about its own machinery — entry 13 is a kernel-checked mechanization of the log's own accumulator, appended into the log itself, verifiable end to end from the live service by anyone with a stock toolchain.