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Establishing the AOF Provenance Protocol
AOF Provenance Protocol

Establishing the AOF Provenance Protocol

In 2025 we initiated the first formal record of the Art of Faceless Provenance Protocol (APP).

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In 2025 we initiated the first formal record of the Art of Faceless Provenance Protocol (APP).

The APP is an ISO-style system designed to preserve the genesis of creative work — analogue, digital, film, or AI — through a reproducible protocol of documentation, hashing, and ledgering. It rejects platform-dependency and blockchain speculation, while maintaining credibility through auditable, versioned documents.

The Manifesto & Preamble v1.0 has been published as a public record on this site. A downloadable PDF with embedded SHA-256 hash is available on request.

👉 Read the Manifesto & Preamble v1.0 here

This page marks the first entry in an open archive. Future amendments and implementation notes will be published in the same format, with all versions retained for audit and citation.

Document: AOF Provenance Protocol (APP)
Version: v1.1 (2025)
Date of Issue: 01 September 2025
Publisher: Art of Faceless (AOF)
Hash (SHA-256): 0002d6a2669980ba8b1500aa2b06eb48c932a2f52ec136aa9e7087022e55c22c

Licence: © Art of Faceless 2025. Personal use permitted. Commercial use requires written licence.

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