Recorded on Base Sepolia using canonicalization v1 and record format v1.
How this article reaches the blockchain
It was the only article published that day, one step at a time, until the whole day became a single value. That one value is what Vitahash wrote to the blockchain. Change a single character of this article and the starting value below changes, so none of the steps would land on the recorded one.
Copy this text, paste it into any SHA-256 tool, and compare the result with the hash shown above. If the two match, this is exactly what Vitahash recorded.
For a technical reader: the terminal route
1. Hash the article yourself
This downloads the exact text Vitahash hashed, in the exact form it hashed it, and hashes it again on your machine. Nothing Vitahash wrote runs here.
curl -s "https://api.vitahash.org/api/verify/STAMP-2026-0825-JD5DJKU3/canonical" | shasum -a 256
Should print fdf93f5e762e28ef0640efc6cd1ad6c93591e52bf5877a349d3a025099dd5890
2. Build this article's starting value
The stamp ID is folded in with the hash, so one article's record can never stand in for another's.
Should print 8c070133918df1798cd7b8ceb57cdf3ff8766d6fc6298a90d281a281ab1ade36
3. Compare with the blockchain
The last value above is what the whole day came to. Read the record on Base and check its merkleRoot field is the same. Vitahash is not involved in this step at all.