Pillar 1 of 5

Pre-Settlement Attestation

Decide before the money moves.

YES / NO / REVIEW verdict in under 2 seconds. Custodians, exchanges, and payment processors gate outbound transfers on the sealed record before releasing funds.

A Cryptographic Court-Ready Record.

Every verdict produced by this pillar ships as a sealed PDF record. Tied to a unique report ID, attestation ID, vendor ID, profile ID, and completion timestamp. Written to the vendor's Secure Document Vault (SDV) with 15+ year retention, indexed in a queryable retrieval table, and anchored to JIL L1 with a 14-of-20 validator quorum signature. Independently verifiable in court, by regulators, and by auditors without JIL Sovereign's cooperation.

Questions answered by this pillar

  • Is this counterparty sanctioned? OFAC SDN + 9 additional jurisdictional lists, named-person and wallet-address matching.
  • Is this wallet contaminated? 42 wallet-intelligence signals, 0/1/2/3-hop exposure to darknet markets, ransomware operators, mixers, state-actor clusters.
  • Does this transaction conform to policy? Institutional test profile - velocity limits, settlement instruction integrity, jurisdictional corridor, typology patterns.
  • Should this settle? Binary decision (YES/NO/REVIEW) with reason codes, confidence score, and full evidence trail.

From request to sealed record

  1. Request in. Custodian POST /authorize with transaction metadata, counterparty claims, amount, destination.
  2. Test profile loaded. 111 checks across 15 signal categories, vendor-approved data sources, attested threshold profile.
  3. Checks run in parallel. All 111 checks dispatched in under 100ms; results aggregated into a Merkle roll-up.
  4. Verdict assembled. YES / NO / REVIEW with confidence score and reason codes.
  5. Quorum-signed. 14-of-20 validator quorum across 10 jurisdictions, Ed25519 + Dilithium-III hybrid signature.
  6. L1 anchored. Attestation transaction on JIL L1; block and tx hash recorded.
  7. Sealed record delivered. PDF written to vendor's Secure Document Vault + indexed in retrieval table; custodian receives signed URL.

Total latency: under 2 seconds for policy decisions, under 6 seconds for sealed-and-delivered records. Within the custodian SLA.

Who runs this pillar

  • Crypto custodians (Fireblocks, Anchorage Digital, BitGo, BNY Mellon Digital, State Street Digital) - pre-authorize institutional transfers before the asset leaves custody.
  • Exchanges and stablecoin issuers (Coinbase, Kraken, Circle, Paxos, Ripple) - screen every withdrawal against sanctions + taint analysis before broadcast.
  • Payment processors (banks, fintechs, MSBs) - pre-clear fiat and hybrid rails before funds move.
  • Federal and state disbursement programs (CMS, Treasury, state Medicaid MCOs) - pre-clear every payment against improper-payment signals.

Detailed documentation

One output. Four more production paths.