NFT IP Anchoring

For DAOs whose work produces intellectual property — a recipe collection, a piece of creative work, a documented method — the framework can anchor that IP on-chain, so authorship is recorded and verifiable.

It works from an IP Declaration: a structured description of the work, written as a canonical manifest (a JSON document). The framework takes a cryptographic fingerprint of that manifest (a keccak256 hash) and anchors it on-chain. The declaration itself stays with the DAO; what goes on-chain is the fingerprint — enough to prove, later, that a given declaration existed and hasn't been altered.

This matters most for the creative and knowledge-producing DAOs, where recording who made something — including a source community as well as the members who amplified it — is part of doing right by the work. DAOs whose work doesn't produce IP simply don't use this part of the framework.

[Image] Diagram: IP Declaration (JSON manifest) → keccak256 hash → on-chain anchor.