Founding artefact · ships autumn 2026
Stela 001. Niger Delta mangrove vigil.
The first artefact issued under the cultural settlement protocol. Bioacoustic recording, cipher seal, on-chain settlement to the source community.
The cipher seal
Seven cipher slots around a scannable mark. The seal carries the canonical lookup key for the Stela's on-chain settlement contract, the consent record, and the provenance chain.
seal_id be17c646bfed6864
Settlement
Source community first, by code. Basis-point split enforced by an immutable Solidity contract on Base mainnet. Every payment to the Stela's settlement contract distributes automatically.
contract 0x611165b45a7493697eAb2dE26563cD22C65c62ce
Verify on basescan →Lineage
Bonny and Opobo, the MacPepple-Jaja royal lineage. Recording, cartouche, and signed manifest filed in the Bonny / Opobo cultural register.
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