A Literary Protocol by
Hashed before the deal closed. Anchored on Polygon. Pinned to IPFS.
"This manuscript was minted before the deal closed."
There is a moment — and every broker knows it, even if none would name it — when the deal stops being real and starts being inevitable.
Not inevitable because the gold exists. Not because the refinery has confirmed throughput. Not because the assay is validated, the shipping corridor secured, or the vault inspection completed.
Inevitable because enough people have said it is.
This is that moment.
A novel about phantom gold deals, WhatsApp broker chains, 2,500 donkeys walking across the Sahel, and the financial architecture that connects them all.
31 chapters. Five documentary artifacts. ~75,000 words. Written in the deadpan voice of an anthropologist studying a financial ecosystem where the product is optional and the commission is the only real output.
There is a moment — and every broker knows it, even if none would name it — when the deal stops being real and starts being inevitable.
Not inevitable because the gold exists. Not because the refinery has confirmed throughput. Not because the assay is validated, the shipping corridor secured, or the vault inspection completed.
Inevitable because enough people have said it is.
This is that moment.
What follows was hashed on a machine in a city that doesn't matter, by a hand that held no gold, signed no IMFPA, and never once confirmed proof of product. The timestamp is immutable. The chain does not forget. The narrative does not require your belief.
It only requires your attention.
And if you're reading this — forwarded, perhaps, through three intermediaries, each of whom added a line about IMF alignment and sovereign stabilization — then the system is already working.
You are the next node.
Welcome to the deal.
The novel is built in four narrative layers, each expanding the world of phantom finance and real consequences.
Raymond's first deal. Gerald's parking lot. Marcus's connection. The Storyteller's vault. Philippe's Geneva WeWork. The Seven Families who control everything and nothing.
Lagos, Dubai, Zurich, NGO aid-washing, carbon conference. The same deal, forwarded through five ecosystems, each adding a layer of plausibility.
2,500 donkeys. 34 days across the Sahel. Ibrahim walks. Adama shares water. 653 donkeys don't arrive. The certificate says they all did.
Raymond goes home. The WhatsApp groups die. The Storyteller speaks at a London summit. And somewhere, a yak-backed lithium corridor is born.
Every word is hashed. Every hash is pinned. Every pin is anchored on-chain. This is not DRM. This is proof-of-origin.
31 blocks compiled into a single canonical manuscript.
293,368 bytes
SHA-256 fingerprint of the compiled output.
9d062421b52d35aa23b73bfc8f66574db78bad9726e45c43a12d0109cdd57d84
Content-addressed and distributed. The CID is the content.
QmPXtEsRwiWuaKmKNA569XAqFNVySN8pwTdGQrvcdpgtMa
On-chain record. Immutable. Verifiable by anyone.
0x97f456300817eaE3B40E235857b856dfFE8bba90
| Edition | IPFS CID | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Genesis | QmVQ79NM...5g8vK | Anchored |
| Edition 2 | QmPXtEsR...pgtMa | Latest |
This novel is the first literary work whose authenticity can be independently verified by anyone. No trust required. No intermediary. Just math.
Drop the compiled manuscript file below or paste its contents. Your browser computes a SHA-256 hash locally — nothing is uploaded anywhere.
compiled-manuscript.md here
or
The manuscript is pinned to IPFS. The CID is the content — if even one byte changes, the CID changes. Click below to fetch it from any public gateway.
QmPXtEsRwiWuaKmKNA569XAqFNVySN8pwTdGQrvcdpgtMa
The LiteraryAnchor contract on Polygon stores every edition’s IPFS CID and SHA-256 hash. It was deployed at block 83,002,198 and is verified on Polygonscan. Anyone can read it.
Don’t trust this page. Run it yourself.
# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/FTHTrading/2500-donkeys.git
cd 2500-donkeys
# 2. Compile the manuscript
npm run compile
# 3. Hash it — should match the on-chain hash
shasum -a 256 dist/compiled-manuscript.md
# → 9d062421b52d35aa23b73bfc8f66574db78bad9726e45c43a12d0109cdd57d84
# 4. Verify against the Polygon contract
npm run audit:chain
# → ✓ On-chain hash matches compiled manuscript
# → ✓ IPFS CID matches on-chain record
# → ✓ Author wallet confirmedWhat you have read is not an accusation. It is not a confession. It is not a manifesto, a complaint, a warning, or a disclosure.
It is a recording.
A recording of how stories become structures, and structures become deals, and deals become commissions, and commissions become the only real thing in a system where the product itself is optional.
The gold was optional. The donkeys were optional. The carbon credits were optional. The humanitarian corridor was optional.
The only non-optional element was the narrative.