Anchoring is not settlement

The published architecture lays out three mainnet phases: initial Ethereum settlement with bridges, later proof anchoring to Litecoin, and a final target of native Litecoin settlement. Those stages are a roadmap. As of the October 4 documentation check, this edition does not have evidence that the production sequence has been completed.

The middle step deserves particular care. Recording evidence on a chain can make an audit trail durable without automatically making that chain responsible for every rule of the external system. Our interpretation is that readers should ask what a Litecoin node actually verifies at each phase, rather than treating the presence of a recorded proof as a universal guarantee. Good roadmaps can invite accountability: identify the deliverable, the observable acceptance condition and the dependency that could delay it. A celebratory magazine can display that ambition beautifully while keeping future-tense verbs intact.