Digital Wonderments

Here is how you use it, without the tech jargon:

You sign in with a secure magic link and mandatory 2FA. (No passwords to hack or forget—just an email link and a required second factor to establish your identity on the network. I do not compromise on security).

You drop your text or your code into the app. Your content is sent to our server, hashed, and immediately discarded. Only the fingerprint, timestamp, and license are recorded — never the work itself. (And if you're truly paranoid? You can use Restricted Mode, where the fingerprint is generated locally in your browser and the file never leaves your machine at all).

You attach the license. Open-source, all rights reserved — you have the option. Or if you’re like me, you can attach the Liberation License. DAON documents the process to create machine-readable <meta> tags that you can embed directly into your site's HTML, as well as how to embed the license directly into the EXIF data or metadata of your photos and videos.

You mint your proof. DAON records that hash, the timestamp, and your license onto the public-good ledger (hosted on green-energy servers, used strictly for unalterable record-keeping).

Let's talk about what this is and what it isn't. Let's do the isn't first.

This ISN'T cryptocurrency for trading. This ISN'T a speculative market. This ISN'T an NFT auction system and this ISN'T a VC-funded grift. You can't mine this for profit. You can't use this to pay for an overpriced beer at a Knicks game. I despise that ecosystem, because it took the math of a very useful system of authenticity and corrupted it into a meme stock.

What this IS: proof.

We use the underlying math that runs every successful cryptocurrency to prove ownership of a digital work. Text, manuscripts, code, HTML—all of it. You register your asset and you get a cryptographic token that you attach to that work, and verification will prove when you registered it, who owns it, and how you chose to license it, immutably. That's it. The record attached to that token never changes, and if there's ever any dispute, you get to use that record to settle it.

(A technical note for radical transparency: Because SHA-256 hashing is perfectly deterministic, the verification engine is bulletproof. I am actively building the verification pipelines for binary files like images, video, and audio. I refuse to overpromise until the math is perfect, but you can register anything today and that verification will work seamlessly when it's ready.)

What does this mean for you? To be clear: I cannot build public internet DRM. No one can, not without breaking the open web itself. What DAON actually gives you is three things:

The Record: Cryptographic proof that your content existed, was owned by you, and was licensed a specific way at a specific time.

The Signal: Machine-readable <meta> tags a scraper could respect, same as robots.txt.

The Receipts: If a scraper ignores the signal and uses the content anyway, you have the undeniable evidence to prove it.

What DAON doesn't give you is enforcement. It can't magically stop a scraper that doesn't want to be stopped. The legal weight comes after the violation, not before it.

It draws a line in concrete. Whether a corporation chooses to step over that line anyway is on them — and now provably on them.

We all know that robots.txt isn't a hard block. But when AI companies actively ignore those signals to train models, it's a choice. And courts are finally starting to care about that choice. DAON makes your boundary legally legible and cryptographically timestamped for exactly that argument, and the servers running this are in Germany, where they don't fuck around with privacy or intellectual property rights.

I am not VC-funded. There are no corporate investors demanding I turn this into a subscription trap. I am an AuDHD engineer and novelist building bare-metal infrastructure and hacking health devices in my living room because my community needs it to survive.

The status quo expects us to just roll over and accept the extraction.

Fuck that. We build our own pyramids now.

Read the Manifesto: greenfieldoverride.com/manifesto Secure your work: app.daon.network Track the Roadmap: daon.network/roadmap