Platform
Knish.IO
Cryptographic-evidence substrate. Post-blockchain DAG; post-quantum signing; cell-isolated multi-tenancy.
- → Validator topology · 5-tier
- → 11 isotopes · 8 SDKs
- → WOTS+ / SHAKE256
Since 2016 · WishKnish Corp.
Connecting a decentralized worldWe are theinfrastructure.
Cryptographic-evidence infrastructure for regulated industries — tamper-evident, post-quantum-signed, append-only by construction.
00 / Homepage© 2016+
Verticals7compliance regimes
SDKs8cross-platform validated
Years building10+since 2016
SubstrateOnecell-isolated, post-quantum
01 / Thesis
Every regulated industry has
the same problem
at the moment of handoff.
How do you prove what happened, when, and who attested it — independently verifiable, without trusting the source system? Knish.IO is the cryptographic substrate that answers that question.
02 / Products
Three offerings.
One mission.
The Knish.IO platform substrate, a professional services team for engagements that need WishKnish-led implementation, and an open-source Developer Toolchain (CLI, SDKs, whitepaper) for everyone else.
Services
Implementation
Custom engagements, advisory, and partnership for organizations building on Knish.IO infrastructure.
- → Architecture advisory
- → Custom implementation
- → Operational partnership
Toolchain
Developer Toolchain
Open-source CLI, eight cross-platform SDKs, and the Knish.IO Technical Whitepaper — free to use, contribute, and audit.
- → knishio-cli · stack orchestration
- → 8 SDKs · 5 languages production
- → Whitepaper · architecture diagrams
03 / Solutions
Seven verticals,
one substrate.
Same architectural claim, seven audiences. One infrastructure investment serves multiple compliance regimes.
/01Aug 2, 2026
AI Audit Trail
Cryptographic evidence for AI-driven decisions. EU AI Act Article 12 obligations apply from August 2, 2026.
/01 · Detail
- → Per-event chain-of-thought signing
- → Court-defensible non-repudiation
- → Multi-customer cell isolation
Explore solution →
/02 · CMMC 2.0
Supply Chain Provenance
Post-quantum-signed evidence for defense supply chains.
/02 · Detail
- → SBOM / HBOM provenance
- → NIST SP 800-171 alignment
- → Multi-tier supplier coordination
Explore →
/03 · HIPAA
Healthcare Consent
PHI-neutral consent attestation. Some states add a private right of action.
/03 · Detail
- → Hash-only mode (no PHI on chain)
- → Cryptoshredding for erasure
- → TPA / payer / employer routes
Explore →
/04
Compliance Attestation
IIJA · IRA · OFCCP
/04
Court-defensible evidence for federal funding & contractor compliance.
/05
Volunteer & Benefits
FEMA · Cost-share
/05
Independently verifiable self-reported data. Cost-share audits, fraud detection.
/06
E-Commerce
EU DPP · ESPR
/06
Marketplace provenance. Chargeback and counterfeit-claim defense.
/07 · Flagship2026 → 2030
Resilient Infrastructure
Multi-zone state-scale cryptographic-evidence infrastructure. Five-tier validator topology from home-edge to sovereign anchor.
EdgeRegionStateSovereign
/07 · Flagship · Detail
- → HIPAA + FERPA + CJIS + REC
- → Phased deployment 2026–2030
- → Federal grant audit posture
- → Multi-zone cell isolation
Explore solution →
04 / Why we're different
Not a blockchain.
Not a database.
Infrastructure.
Six capability differentiators that distinguish Knish.IO from operational observability tools, blockchain platforms, and incumbent compliance vendors.
/01
DAG
Post-blockchain DAG. Not a blockchain.
Zero gas, no cryptocurrency. Patent-pending IP on molecular transaction architecture. Built for infrastructure — not financial speculation, not chain wars, not token economics.
/02
Post-quantum
Signed for a world that hasn’t arrived yet.
WOTS+ over SHAKE256 (FIPS 202). Hash-based signatures resistant to quantum cryptanalysis. Multi-decade retention without re-signing — what you sign today still holds in 2045.
/03
Immutable
Append-only by construction.
No admin can rewrite history. OTS positions are consumed permanently at sign-time. The math is the integrity — not the policy, not the access control, not the audit-log retention setting.
/04
Tenancy
Cell-isolated multi-tenancy.
HIPAA, FERPA, CJIS, ITAR boundaries enforced at the protocol layer — not application-level filtering. A patent-pending invariant, not a configuration setting.
/05
Consensus
Pay-it-forward consensus.
Asynchronous and Byzantine fault tolerant. More molecules receive validation than are created — handles surge traffic gracefully without security degradation.
/06
Portable
Runs on a Raspberry Pi.
One of the few distributed ledgers that runs equally well on a high-powered cloud and a $35 single-board computer. No mining. Cloud-portable from day one.
05 / Validator throughput
At the substrate level,
measured.
Measured under five representative workload shapes — from hot-entity viral models to multi-tenant SaaS to worst-case event streams.
bench-baselines · v0.2.0
Tier 1 · Hot Entity
59.5/s
Tier 2 · Zipfian CRUD
62.6/s
Tier 3 · Multi-Tenant
51.3/s
Tier 4 · Event Stream
51.2/s
Tier 5 · DAG Growth
48.7/s
Median molecules per second · sustained workload · Apple M4 / 10-core / Docker PostgresView benchmark methodology
06 / Coexists with your stack
We don't replace
your stack.
We sit underneath it.
Your operational layer
SBOM
Anchore
Consent
OneTrust
Fraud
Pondera
AI Obs
LangSmith
Commerce
Shopify
writes evidence to
Knish.IO substrate
Cryptographic-evidence layer
Tamper-evidentPost-quantumAppend-only
evidence read by
Your verification layer
Audit
Big 4 + SOC 2
Legal
e-Discovery
Compliance
GRC platforms
Regulators
Direct read
Insurance
Cyber underwriters
Shown alongside for category context — not an endorsement claim. Third-party marks property of their respective owners.
07 / Where we operate
From federal evaluation and government pilots to active enterprise deployments — across government, healthcare, real estate, and regulated e-commerce.
08 / What's next
Four paths
forward.
Knish.IO is built on patent-pending IP covering molecular transaction architecture, cellular multi-tenancy, and the post-quantum cryptographic substrate. Pick the path that fits your role.
For enterprise
Request a consultation
Talk to our team about your situation.
Get in touchFor evaluators
Read the whitepaper
Technical foundation, primitives, architecture.
Download PDFFor developers
Start with the SDK
10 minutes from install to first molecule.
QuickstartFor operators
Operate the stack
knishio-cli: launch, manage, benchmark. One binary.
Browse the CLIP01 · /platform
What Knish.IO is,
at the substrate level.
A post-blockchain DAG with molecular transaction architecture. Atoms, molecules, bundles, cells — the primitives that compose into evidence chains.
D01 · /developers
Build on
Knish.IO.
Multi-SDK cryptographic-evidence infrastructure with cross-platform validation. Every SDK produces bit-identical cryptographic output.
D01 · SDK quickstart
quickstart.ts
# Install the SDK
$ npm install @wishknish/knishio-client-ts
import { KnishIOClient } from '@wishknish/knishio-client-ts';
// Initialize the client and authenticate
const client = new KnishIOClient({
uri: 'https://validator',
cellSlug: 'PUBLIC'
});
client.setSecret(yourSecret);
// Write an audit event as a Meta-isotope molecule
const response = await client.createMeta({
metaType: 'AuditEvent',
metaId: crypto.randomUUID(),
meta: { event: 'audit', actor: 'pipeline-7' }
});
// ✓ Accepted by validatorD02 · Or operate the stack
Stack orchestration CLI
knishio-cli wraps the validator lifecycle — Docker control, cell management, benchmarks, health checks — in one cargo-installable binary.
~/shell
# Install from crates.io
$ cargo install knishio-cli
# Auto-detect host accel (NVIDIA / Apple Silicon / CPU)
$ knishio detect
# Launch the validator stack
$ knishio start -d --build
# Create a cell and verify health
$ knishio cell create TESTCELL --name "Test Cell"
$ knishio health
# ✓ All systems green8 SDKs · cross-platform validated · view on GitHub
V01 · /solutions/ai-audit-trail
EU AI Act · Article 12 · Aug 2, 2026
Cryptographic evidence
for AI-driven decisions.
When a regulator asks "show me the reasoning chain" — does your AI observability stack produce evidence that survives adversarial review? Knish.IO sits underneath your LangSmith, your Datadog, your custom audit pipeline, and writes the cryptographic chain a court will accept.
Capability → Need
- Per-event signing chainEU AI Act Article 12 audit-log
- Append-only historyCourt-defensible non-repudiation
- Cell-isolated tenancyMulti-customer regulatory separation
- Post-quantum signingMulti-decade retention without re-sign
- Format-adapter proxyDrop-in HTTPS endpoint for ingestion