for the discovery you are not ready to show
Prove you were first. Show nothing.
The oldest trap in research: publish and be robbed, or wait and be beaten. The vault is the exit. Your method ships as a sealed container; the archive re-executes it and publishes only pass or fail; the hash commitment, chained into the public ledger, is your timestamp. When you are ready, unseal on your own terms, or never.
The strongest verification tier is the most private one: a T3 certificate is checked by the open kernel while your discovery method never leaves your machine at all.
The whole flow, from your terminal
# pack with the container sealed
certiv pack --seal
# your claim of priority, with its limits stated on its face
certiv priority
# chain it: the ledger timestamp is the evidence
certiv submit paper.pdf receipt.certiv --tier T2The certificate says exactly what it proves, possession of these exact bytes no later than the ledger timestamp, and exactly what it does not: novelty, significance, or exclusivity. Sealed containers are re-executed under a verification-only license; no other rights transfer, ever.