# Hedera Consensus Service **Domain:** Distributed ledger infrastructure **Doc Type:** Developed Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] ## Definition The **Hedera Consensus Service** provides timestamping and ordered consensus messages on the Hedera network. ## Significance It can support auditable event histories without making the ledger's input claims true by itself. ## Sources - [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]] - [[articles/gamification/The X Ledger|The X Ledger]] - [Primary or institutional source](https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/consensus-service) ## Routes [[wiki/Persistent Ledger History|Persistent Ledger History]] · [[wiki/Attribution Stack|Attribution Stack]] · [[wiki/Continuity Accounting|Continuity Accounting]] · [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]]