PaperProof Whitepaper: A Protocol for Durable Digital Artifacts on Sui and Walrus

This whitepaper is published for review, discussion, education, ecosystem coordination, and integration with the official PaperProof Protocol deployments. Readers may download, print, cite, and quote limited portions of this document for those purposes. This document does not grant rights to use the PaperProof name, PaperProof Labs name, logos, trademarks, official deployment identity, or official manifests in a confusing or misleading manner. It does not relicense the PaperProof smart contracts, SDKs, website, marks, or other project materials, which remain governed by their own license notices. This whitepaper is not an investment prospectus, financial promotion, promise of returns, legal opinion, or guarantee of protocol adoption. It describes a protocol direction, current implementation posture, and intended ecosystem path. Future governance, fees, incentives, and roadmap items are directional and may change through development, security review, community feedback, and applicable governance processes.