Audit Logs vs Immutable Receipts

Diagram · 2026-02-17 · 08:00 AM PT

Side-by-side comparison: audit logs (asynchronous, observational, decoupled from policy) vs immutable receipts (synchronous, cryptographically chained, bound to policy version).
Audit logs are written after the fact; an immutable receipt is written as a precondition of the act.

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