WitnessChain Preprint v0.2

WitnessChain is a sovereign Layer‑1 protocol whose trust root is a pre‑genesis record: a commitment to the future genesis state co‑signed by a hardware‑bound witness set under a high‑threshold signature scheme.

This preprint condenses the system model, the pre‑genesis ceremony, the threshold governance surface (routine vs. sensitive actions), the privacy-tier access model, and the tamper‑aware DA state machine.