❤️ TruthSpec Manifest: Heartbeat Orchestration Layer
This manifest defines the behavioral guarantees, entropy signaling, and validator liveness tracking for QuantumChain’s heartbeat subsystem. It ensures that system rhythm is maintained, failure is detected early, and consensus remains synchronized.
✅ Semantic Contract
| Element |
Description |
| Intent |
Maintain validator liveness and entropy rhythm across the network |
| Trigger Conditions |
Scheduled heartbeat interval, validator response, entropy sync |
| Behavioral Promise |
Heartbeats are enforced, logged, and used to trigger rotation and halt |
| Mutation Safety |
Heartbeat logic is immutable during emergency halt or governance override |
| Observability |
Heartbeat events timestamped and linked to validator telemetry |
| Governance Influence |
Interval and entropy weighting are runtime-mutable |
🧬 Runtime Fingerprint
| Field |
Value |
| Build Hash |
qchain-v1.04-heartbeat-sync |
| Heartbeat Logic Checksum |
SHA256 of EmitHeartbeat() and ValidateLiveness() |
| Entropy Sync UUID |
Identifier for entropy source used in last heartbeat |
| Validator Ping Snapshot |
Last 5 heartbeat responses with timestamps |
| CI/CD Tag |
v1.04-heartbeat-verified |
📎 Mutation Context
| Governance Link |
Details |
| Proposal ID |
PROP-437: Heartbeat Interval Adjustment |
| Valid From |
07-10-2025 00:00 UTC |
| Mutation Parameters |
heartbeat_interval, entropy_weighting_factor |
| Override Protocol |
Requires quorum and stable entropy sync |
📊 Validation Matrix
| Scenario |
Expected Behavior |
Logging Event |
| All validators respond |
Heartbeat confirmed |
HEARTBEAT_OK |
| ≥2 validators miss heartbeat |
Warning issued |
HEARTBEAT_WARNING: Partial Drop |
| ≥3 validators miss heartbeat |
Emergency halt triggered |
EMERGENCY_TRIGGER: Heartbeat |
| Entropy sync drift |
Heartbeat deferred |
HEARTBEAT_DEFERRED: Entropy |
| Governance mutation applied |
Interval updated |
MUTATION_APPLIED: PROP-437 |
🧭 Notes
The heartbeat layer is QuantumChain’s rhythmic conscience. It ensures validators are alive, entropy is flowing, and consensus remains in sync. This TruthSpec guarantees that every beat reflects trust, timing, and system health.
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