AOF Provenance Protocol

Diary Entry — Alone With the Archive

Some days it feels pointless. Today I read that Kite AI secured $18M in Series A funding from PayPal Ventures and Samsung. Eighteen million dollars to put “autonomous AI on blockchain.” Words dressed up as inevitability: $240 billion markets, agentic internet, the future already sold. And here I am, with

Diary Entry — Bubblegum Cards

I saw an X post today from an NFT artist celebrating a sale. It read like something between a love poem and a product announcement: “gm and SOLD ❤️‍🔥 … my gratitude flows like shadowed rivers … may the flowers bloom endlessly in your hands.” The reaction it triggered in me was physical.

APP, NFTs, and the Myth of Permanence — A Friendly Autopsy (with Receipts) Date: 2025-09-02

Date: 2025-09-02 Series: APP / Devlog / Critical Notes We’re building APP (the AOF Provenance Protocol) and we’re not going to sell it to you as a utopia. This post is a friendly autopsy — of NFTs, of our own system, and of the myths both camps use. If this is

Establishing the AOF Provenance Protocol

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

Preface to the AOF Provenance Protocol (APP)

Art of Faceless (AOF) was never meant to be permanent. Since 2012 it has appeared, collapsed, resurfaced, and fractured again — a pattern that mirrors the very systems it was born to critique. The original 2012 trailer came from a very different world. Surveillance was still clumsy, algorithms had not yet