diff --git a/src/v1/stage0/src/v1_interpreter.rs b/src/v1/stage0/src/v1_interpreter.rs
index 717f572b168..e2be3a600bd 100644
--- a/src/v1/stage0/src/v1_interpreter.rs
+++ b/src/v1/stage0/src/v1_interpreter.rs
@@ -7903,6 +7903,31 @@ fn rest_uri_value(url: &str, ctx: &InterpContext) -> InterpResult<Value> {
     })
 }
 
+/// Seed bridge for the `.dag`-owned `ContentHash` family carrier. REST input identity is
+/// the structural FNV-1a digest produced by `content_hash_service_inputs`; the interpreter
+/// must realize that modeled value, not leak its wire string across the typed dispatch seam.
+///
+/// This is the model↔realization fork DESIGN's open threads name: `#7480` made `ContentHash`
+/// a coproduct in `.dag` while this site kept minting the pre-#7480 branded string, so a
+/// fixture invocation built in `.dag` could never equal one built here. Every
+/// `rest_exchange_replay` witness that requires a fixture to MATCH failed; the ones requiring
+/// no match passed, which is the signature of an equality that is always false rather than of
+/// a broken lookup. Recovered from the closed PR #7650, which had this right.
+///
+/// DISSOLVE-ON: REST service dispatch is evaluated by the emitted transport handler and this
+/// host-side `RestBoundOperationInvocation` construction is deleted.
+fn rest_structural_content_hash_value(digest: String, ctx: &InterpContext) -> Value {
+    let structural = Value::Record {
+        type_name: ctx.sym("Fnv1a64Structural"),
+        fields: Rc::new(sorted_fields(vec![(ctx.sym("digest"), Value::Str(digest))])),
+    };
+    Value::Variant {
+        type_name: ctx.sym("ContentHash"),
+        variant_name: ctx.sym("Fnv1a64"),
+        fields: Rc::new(vec![(ctx.sym("0"), structural)]),
+    }
+}
+
 fn rest_bound_invocation_value(
     service_node: &Rc<Node>,
     op_node: &Rc<Node>,
@@ -7924,7 +7949,10 @@ fn rest_bound_invocation_value(
             (ctx.sym("at"), at),
             (ctx.sym("method"), rest_variant(ctx, "HttpMethod", method)),
             (ctx.sym("target"), rest_uri_value(url, ctx)?),
-            (ctx.sym("input_digest"), Value::Str(input_digest)),
+            (
+                ctx.sym("input_digest"),
+                rest_structural_content_hash_value(input_digest, ctx),
+            ),
             (
                 ctx.sym("auth_identity"),
                 rest_auth_identity_value(auth, basic_header, ctx),