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The future of news is the story vault, not the paywall: what changed in v1.5.0
From v1.4.0 (2026-09-28, 6a06cb06a) to v1.5.0 (2026-10-05, 4d6a7b929), paragraph by paragraph.
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• Trust through provenance, provenance via evidence. Trust is not asserted, it is the result of a chain that can be walked: from a claim, along named edges, to evidence that is frozen bytes with a hash. Because nothing on that ladder is asserted, every rungstep of it can be sold.
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Evidence is the bottom rung,step, and it is bytes. A source page fetched on a date, frozen, and hashed with SHA-256. An interview recording. A filing. A dataset. Not a link to any of them, because a link is a promise that the thing will still be there and still say the same, and the web breaks that promise constantly. The Regulation Graph ends every chain in a hash of the retrieved bytes for exactly this reason, and so does the Portugal newsroom, for 88 sources today.
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The reason to be precise about the ladder is commercial. Every rungstep of it can be sold, because none of it is an assertion. The evidence vault sells the bottom rung.step. The licensed article and the customised projection sell a walk along the middle one. The verification API sells the top one, an answer on the record from a source with a track record, with a warranty. And none of those sales is possible if the newsroom kept only the article, because the article is the one artefact that contains none of the three.
52 unchanged paragraphs, under What a story vault holds, Five things to sell, and how each one works, Who gets paid, and how the money moves…