Substantiation Factor
What this material is, what status it has, and what evidence would be required before any of it could be presented as behavior.
Proposed Verified 2026-08-31
A proposal exists. Nothing here is implemented or activated by that fact alone.
- Page ID
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protocol/arc20/substantiation-factor - Normative authority
- No normative source. Navigation only.
- Networks
- mainnet
- Documentation version
- 2026.08
- Audience
- everyone, developer
- Owner
- bitcoin-universe-docs
- Known limitations
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- No applicable source revision or conformance suite was located that establishes Substantiation Factor as implemented behavior. This page therefore states status only.
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What status means here
Section titled “What status means here”This documentation labels a capability by evidence, not by intent. To move Substantiation Factor
material out of Proposed, all of the following would be required:
- An applicable source revision that implements it, pinned by commit or release.
- A statement of which networks and activation conditions apply.
- Deterministic conformance vectors that execute against that revision.
- A record of what the vectors prove and what they do not.
- Either a Universe implementation revision that exposes it, or an explicit statement that no product surface does.
None of those exist at the verified date.
What must not be claimed in the meantime
Section titled “What must not be claimed in the meantime”- That units are backed, collateralised, redeemable, or price supported.
- That any substantiation figure is computed from chain data by a Universe service.
- That a product feature depends on it.
- That an integration should read a field for it.
If you encounter material presenting Substantiation Factor as live behavior, treat it as unverified and report it as an incorrect protocol claim.
What ARC-20 actually is
Section titled “What ARC-20 actually is”One coloured satoshi is one unit. Supply is bitcoin you committed. Nothing else is created by minting. See the unit model.