# 4.3 On-Chain Architecture The on-chain architecture provides the canonical truth for knowledge provenance, validation records, asset ownership, and royalty state transitions. Rather than handling raw data, it maintains a structured set of commitments referencing off-chain payloads. This approach minimizes cost while maximizing verifiability and transparency. Each knowledge artifact is represented by a tuple of metadata: * A commitment to the knowledge payload * Authorship identifiers * Validation signatures * Asset parameters governing royalty rights and usage permissions These elements are structured so that the protocol can reconstruct the lineage of any knowledge asset and its derivative works. The immutability of Base ensures that these commitments form a permanent record, enabling forensic auditing of AI behavior and a transparent attribution chain. Definition — Provenance Commitment:\ A cryptographic commitment linking a knowledge asset to its immutable authorship and integrity proof, independent of its storage location. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.gnosislayer.xyz/4.-architecture-design/4.3-on-chain-architecture.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.