Operated by VTI Foundation, Inc.
Trust-State Standard v1.0
Status: Official Release
Publication Date: February 2026
Published by VTI Foundation, Inc.

2. Normative References

The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this standard.

  • FIPS 180-4 — Secure Hash Standard (SHA-256).
  • RFC 8259 — The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format.
  • Unicode Standard — Unicode Code Point Ordering.

Where referenced specifications conflict with the requirements of this standard, the requirements of the Trust-State Standard SHALL take precedence.

All hash computations defined within this standard SHALL use SHA-256 as defined in FIPS 180-4.