How it works
Three parts. A board of graves. A person who reviews. A vault that pays. Only the last one lives on the chain.
The board
Graves are scouted in person and added with a position, a level and a bounty in dollars. The level is how long the grave seems to have gone without care: Neglected, Forgotten, Abandoned, Lost. Bounties follow the level. Anyone holding enough $PROOF can propose a grave or add to a bounty on the adopt page.
The review
A submission is two photos, the phone's location, and a signature from the wallet to be paid. A person compares the photos with the scouting photo, checks the distance from the grave, and checks the rules. Nothing is automated here on purpose: the amounts are small and a human is harder to fool than a script.
The chain never trusts the website. It trusts one key, and that key signs a payment only after this review.
The vault
A small contract that holds $PROOF and does four things, each of them an event on the explorer:
pay(graveId, caretaker, amount, proofHash)— one payment per proof, ever.graveIdis the hash of the grave's slug;proofHashis the hash of the two photo URLs and the submission id. No names on-chain.burn(amount)— sends tokens to the burn address.adopt(graveId, amount)— anyone can fund a specific grave. The event is the receipt.sweep(to, amount, reason)— moves tokens out with a stated reason, for example to a new vault. Public by design.
The key that can call pay and burn is published on the proof page. Ownership moves in two steps, so it can go to a multisig without a mistake.
The money
$PROOF was launched on PONS with a fixed supply and liquidity locked for good. The project sells no tokens. Its only revenue is the creator share of trading fees, which lands in the treasury address and is split like this:
- 37.5%
buys $PROOF back and burns it - 37.5%
funds the vault that pays caretakers - 25%
keeps the project running
Bounties are quoted in dollars and paid in $PROOF at the price at approval. If the token is worth more, a bounty costs fewer tokens; if less, more. The vault is topped up from the fee share and from adoptions.
What is not on-chain
Photos, locations, and reviewer notes live in an ordinary database, so they can be removed. The chain holds hashes, amounts and wallets. If a photo is deleted, the hash stays a number that means nothing.
Where this could go
A register of graves that were cared for, by whom, when, with proof — kept somewhere that outlasts the people who kept it. If enough graves get cared for, that is what this becomes. Until then it is a board, a reviewer and a vault.