Introduction

This topic gives the baseline mental model for PaperProof and defines the protocol in plain language before any deeper technical reading.

Important digital works increasingly live across unstable boundaries: storage links, repository releases, social posts, preprint pages, datasets, software packages, and application databases. These surfaces are useful, but none of them alone gives the work itself a durable protocol identity. PaperProof addresses this missing layer. A PaperProof artifact is not merely an uploaded file or a page in one application. It is a continuing protocol object with typed versions, Walrus content references, official comments, official likes, ownership, status, timestamps, and canonical events. Protocol, not just platform PaperProof should be understood as an artifact protocol, not merely as a content site. Walrus stores large content packages. Sui stores compact shared protocol state....