free to read. paid to cite. bucket.foundation — a nonprofit canon of foundations for decentralized research.
A nonprofit canon of foundations — axioms, real math, laws, principles, primary derivations — carved into stone by the small number of people who can do genius work with AI. Every paper is free to read. Every citation pays the author, over the x402 rail, forever.
- medium
- bone limestone
- inlay
- basalt + hot gold
- ledger
- bucket.foundation
- license
- CC0 intent · MIT code
paste into Claude.the rest is automatic.
Drop www.bucket.foundation into any agent — Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity. They auto-discover the research API via /llms.txt, find the feed402 manifest, and pay $0.005 per query on Base — with the citation paying the author, forever.
- Iagent fetches /llms.txtlearns the protocol + API shape
- IIcalls /api/researchgets x402 challenge · $0.005 on Base
- IIIreturns cited envelopedata + citation + on-chain receipt
AI plus foundations plus a small number of brilliant humans = the next layer of reality.
Canon holds only foundations: axioms, real math, rules, laws, principles, primary derivations. Outcomes — longevity, disease, cognition — are downstream applications, not canon.
Every citation pays the author, not the publisher. Every paper is free to read and priced-once to cite, over the x402 rail, forever.
Primary research is paid for once, and citeable forever. The author is the beneficiary. The publisher is removed from the rail. The citation becomes a payment; the payment becomes provenance; provenance becomes canon.
free to read · paid to cite · written in stone
eight branches.
one index.
Each branch is a plinth. Each plinth holds axioms, not outcomes. Each axiom is citeable over x402, forever.
all branches→feed402
∂ discover at /.well-known/feed402.json
“An AI agent with a wallet discovers a data source, pays per query, and receives a citeable envelope — data · citation · receipt.”
how a citation gets carved.
- Idiscover
Any agent GETs /.well-known/feed402.json. It returns the endpoint list, tiered pricing, wallet address, and corpus hash.
- IIpay
Agent signs an EIP-3009 transferWithAuthorization on Base. x402 settles in sub-second finality. Receipt hashes into the envelope.
- IIIcite
Agent receives { data, citation, receipt }. Citation includes the author DID, corpus hash, model id, chunk id — reproducible forever.
for the small number of people who can take a model and an axiom and reach a layer of reality nobody has reached before.
If that is you — the foundation is open.