We will
never
ask who
you are.

For two decades, software has been quietly building a profile of you. Your scroll patterns. Your sleep timing. Your hesitation before a purchase. The exact second you closed the app and the exact second you opened it again.

You were not paid. You were not asked. You did not get a copy. In most cases you were not even told.

This data is now the most valuable input for AI training, because text has plateaued and behavior is the next frontier. The companies that own the data own the models. The humans that produced it own nothing.

NPC.fi inverts this. Humans opt in. Humans get paid. Humans control what flows out. And the protocol never learns who they are.

That last part is not a marketing claim. It is an architectural choice we made before writing the first line of code. No World ID. No Gitcoin Passport. No KYC. No email. Wallet signature is the only identifier the protocol ever sees.

“But how do you prove they're human?”

We don't. We don't need to. We need to prove their data looks human. Those are different problems, and the second one is solvable without knowing the first.

A refundable stake makes Sybils expensive. An open-source plausibility detector makes scripted data fail. Reputation that compounds over months makes time itself the trust signal. Capital and behavior are crypto's native primitives. Identity isn't.

Bitcoin didn't ask “are you a real miner?” — it asked “did you do the work?” Same logic here.

By refusing identity, we lose some Sybil resistance at the margins. Some persona slots will be operated by the same human. Some scripted bot networks will earn a little before they get detected and slashed. We are choosing to live with that.

The buyers we serve pay for aggregate behavioral patterns, not individual identity-attested certificates. As long as the aggregate is real, the product works. The marginal Sybil is priced into the cost of a query.

The trade is worth it. The alternative is identity-gated data markets — which is the system we built this to leave.

The hard rules. Bound to the contracts. Open source.

1. ✓The protocol will never store a real name, email, phone, or government ID.
2. ✓The protocol will never collect biometric data.
3. ✓The protocol will never collect data from minors.
4. ✓The protocol will never collect medical records.
5. ✓The protocol will never require KYC for any tier of supplier participation.
6. ✓The protocol will never link a wallet to an off-chain identity, voluntarily or under subpoena.
7. ✓If a feature requires identifying you, the feature gets cut before the promise does.

Big Tech harvests your data and knows your name.
NPC.fi pays you and doesn't even know you exist.

That is the entire pitch. If we deviate from it, we have nothing. You should leave.

This manifesto is not signed by a person. It is signed by an architecture: open-source code, audited contracts, on-chain transparency, governance distributed across token holders.

The contributors are anonymous. The treasury is multisig-controlled by anonymous signers. The plausibility detector is open source so that anyone, including adversaries, can audit it.

There is no founder photo. There is no leadership team page. There is no “about us.” If the protocol is good, you don't need to know who built it. If the protocol is bad, knowing wouldn't help you.

stay gray. get paid.