Research
Published standards, permanent identifiers, open code.
When we anchor your data room, certify a manuscript, or design a token structure, the method is a published standard with a DOI, an open reference implementation, and a conformance ladder a third party can test against.
Standard
LPS-1: Literary Publishing Standard, Deterministic Digital Provenance
Version 1.1, Informational. Specification under CC BY 4.0; reference implementation under MIT. The machine-readable record is served at xxxiii.io/.well-known/lps1.json; the specification and code are at github.com/FTHTrading/LPS-1-Reference-Implementation.
Conformance ladder
| Level | Requirement |
|---|---|
| L0 | Anchor only |
| L1 | Deterministic build |
| L2 | Merkle provenance |
| L3 | On-chain anchoring |
| L4 | Signed canonical root with on-chain author registry |
| L5 | Cross-chain timestamp plus client-side verification |
The reference deployment (7 contracts on Polygon mainnet) is self-assessed at L5; internal security review, no external audit as of 9 Sep 2026. Source: xxxiii.io/.well-known/lps1.json.
Publications
Published research
Our methods are published under permanent identifiers. Anyone can resolve the DOI, read the paper and run the code.
| Work | Identifier | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Deterministic Literary Publishing: A Multi-Layer Provenance Model for Verifiable Manuscripts (the LPS-1 paper). Working paper, Kevan Burns, February 2026, CC BY 4.0. | Concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18646885 (resolves to the latest version, 10.5281/zenodo.18647085); pinned version 10.5281/zenodo.18646886 | Measured Zenodo, 29 Sep 2026 |
| Genesis Protocol: Emergent Economic Ecology in Autonomous Computational Organisms. Preprint v1.0.0, February 2026, CC BY 4.0. A deterministic closed-economy simulation of autonomous agents under metabolic scarcity. | DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18729652; code at github.com/FTHTrading/Genesis | Measured Zenodo, 29 Sep 2026 |
| SSRN preprint of the provenance work | DOI 10.2139/ssrn.6241279 | Listed in our published LPS-1 record; resolve to confirm |
| Author record | ORCID 0009-0008-8425-939X (3 works listed by the ORCID public API on 9 Sep 2026) | Measured |
| UnyKorn Impact & Innovation Report, Edition 2026, with six companion reports and a machine-readable evidence ledger (275 rows, seven labels). | unykorn.ai/report and unykorn.ai/report/ledger.json | Measured served 29 Sep 2026 |
Provenance
How we put a document on chain
Under LPS-1, a document is never uploaded to prove it existed. Its fingerprint is.
The file is hashed with SHA-256, in the browser or on the desk. Only the 64-character fingerprint moves.
Fingerprints are combined into a Merkle tree so one root commits to many files, and any one file can be proven without revealing the others.
The root is written to the LPS-1 anchor contract on Polygon, bound to a block timestamp.
The same root is stamped into Bitcoin through OpenTimestamps calendars, giving a second, independent chain.
Anyone with the file, the proof and a public node can confirm the fingerprint, the path and the block, using the open verifier script, without our servers.
Engineering
Open-source repositories
Our public code lives under github.com/FTHTrading. The three repositories below are the ones a client is most likely to read. Crates are published as source in these repositories, not on a package registry. Counts are from the desk's records of test runs on the dates shown; they are not summed across repositories.
| Repository | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| LPS-1-Reference-Implementation | The provenance standard's specification (CC BY 4.0) and reference code (MIT): Merkle pipeline, seven Solidity contracts, verifier. 58 contract tests and 21 pipeline tests passing on 9 Sep 2026; the full suite is self-reported at 293. | Measured |
| Genesis | The deterministic economic-ecology simulation behind the Genesis Protocol preprint: 15 Rust crates, 403 tests, reproducible result hashes (a re-run on 10 Aug 2026 reproduced the committed hashes byte for byte). | Measured |
| Donkai---1977 (chain 1977) | A satirical Layer-1 wrapping real components: 6 Rust crates (LPS-1 Merkle with 58 enumerated audit checks, post-quantum signatures and key encapsulation, policy adjudication, consensus, IPFS), 28 tests, three compiled Solidity contracts. MIT or Apache-2.0. | Measured (research code) |
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