creating, by a record lifecycle tool, a recordable artifact for a record lifecycle event in a record lifecycle, the recordable artifact comprising record lifecycle event data for the record lifecycle event;

creating, by the record lifecycle tool, a recordable artifact for the record lifecycle event comprising the record lifecycle event data;

generating, by the record lifecycle tool, a hash of the record lifecycle event data;

creating, by the record lifecycle tool, record lifecycle event metadata for the recordable artifact, the record lifecycle event metadata comprising a list of supply chain elements that comprises at least a recordable artifact type and an indication of an upstream record that used the record lifecycle event data as a reference material for a different recordable artifact type;

signing, by the record lifecycle tool, the record lifecycle event metadata;

writing the signed record lifecycle event metadata to a supply chain metadata store at a storage location, wherein the supply chain metadata store is blockchain-based and is cryptographically verifiable and immutable; and

writing the hash and an identifier for the storage location in the supply chain metadata store to a present state database.