Accredited Work Protocol v1 - A Decentralized Creative Accreditation System

The distinguishing feature of the Accredited Work protocol lies in its attempt to merge creative accreditation with decentralized infrastructure. Existing systems typically separate intellectual property registration, publication, and identity verification into different institutional domains. Accredited Work instead treats authorship recognition as a unified protocol that can operate globally without centralized gatekeepers. By implementing accreditation as a blockchain-anchored record, the system ensures that authorship claims remain verifiable even if hosting platforms or institutional structures change over time. The protocol therefore represents an experimental infrastructure for recognizing human creative labor within distributed digital environments.