PaperProof: Verifiable Knowledge Infrastructure for the Agentic Web

This article frames PaperProof as a protocol layer for durable, verifiable, versioned digital artifacts rather than a single publishing application.

It explains how PaperProof connects Sui state, Walrus storage, governance, and artifact-native interfaces into a public knowledge infrastructure stack.

Author: PaperProof Labs Category: Protocol Vision Digital knowledge is becoming more powerful, more automated, and more fragile at the same time. Research papers move through preprint servers, PDFs, datasets, repositories, social announcements, discussion threads, model-generated summaries, and application-specific databases. Software releases are published through source control, package registries, audit reports, changelogs, and community posts. AI agents increasingly read, summarize, remember, recommend, and act on these materials. Yet the internet still lacks a common evidence layer for answering basic questions: What exactly is this work? Which version am I looking at? Where is the content stored? Which discussion belongs to this artifact? Which metadata was committed on chain? Which prompt or memory configuration guided an agent? Can another application verify the same record without trusting this website? PaperProof is our answer to that missing layer....