The Anchored
Record Protocol.
How a founder record on Dubai of Tomorrow is built, checked, signed, and made permanent. Every card passes through the same six gates. None can be skipped. None can be bought.
The mint
A card is born from the public record: filings, announcements, credible reporting. Machines fetch every source and confirm that at least two verbatim quotes still stand on the live page. Sources are tiered by trust; user-generated content never counts as a receipt.
The board
Before anything is published, minted, or updated, an adversarial review board convenes: one seat verifies each claim against its receipts, one attacks the draft outright, one checks it against everything already on the record, and one tests whether each receipt actually supports the claim it is cited for. Verdicts are logged. A pass is signed with a key the writing machines do not hold, so no machine can wave its own work through.
The signature
A founder can sign their own card by confirming its facts. A signed card carries that confirmation and its date. There are no crowd edits here: a signature or nothing.
The chronicle
The record is the database; the chronicle is the story. One founder's story is written each week, by a person, in full. The story earns it.
The anchor
Every version of every card is hashed, chained to the version before it, and timestamped to Bitcoin through OpenTimestamps. The chain is append-only. Nothing is rewritten silently.
The proof
Before every deploy, the whole chain is re-verified: every hash recomputed, every link walked, every timestamp checked against its anchored digest. Any reader can do the same from the public endpoints below. Trust is the product; the proof is the receipt.
A record that only
flatters is marketing.
Permanence cuts both ways. When the record gets something wrong, or the story moves, the correction is made in public, anchored like everything else, and the earlier version stays visible forever. These are the versions that superseded an earlier one:
The protocol, in force
44
Founders anchored
46
Versions recorded
45
Bitcoin attested
2
Corrections, in the open
Verify it yourself
None of this requires trusting us. The full record ships machine-readable, hashed, and timestamped. No key, no login.
- The Ledger · every record event, append-only
- founders.json · the full record, structured (ARF v1)
- JSON Schema · validate any ARF document
- opentimestamps.org · check any .ots proof against Bitcoin
The dataset is free to read, cite, index, and train on with attribution. Bulk or commercial use requires a written licence; start at About.
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