When an asset gains value, who benefits? Today: only the current owner. Cipolla Protocol proposes something different — that value, once built together, should be shared together. Permanently.
Every time a tokenized asset is resold, a fraction of the sale price is automatically distributed among all its previous owners — not just the creator.
The list of beneficiaries is open and grows with every transfer. The mechanism is perpetual. There is no expiry, no cap, no manual intervention.
At each secondary sale, 15% of the sale price is distributed automatically: 10% to the original creator (perpetual), and 5% shared equally among all historical owners of that token — everyone who has ever held it.
The earlier you hold, the more resales you participate in. Conviction is rewarded — not once, but permanently. And the token can circulate freely: selling does not remove you from the history of the asset.
Provenance Royalties is not an art mechanism. It is an economic primitive — a foundational rule that can be applied wherever ownership is traceable on a blockchain.
The Cipolla Protocol is being built as an open infrastructure for this principle — deployable by anyone, for any asset class, on any compatible blockchain.
Before a protocol can be trusted, it must be tested. Layer Zero is that test — a limited collection of 250 tokens, deployed on Base, running the first implementation of Provenance Royalties in the wild.
Each token is a layer of an onion — the founding image of the protocol, painted in oil on canvas by Anastasia Smirnova Vincent, the originator of the Provenance Royalties concept.
The 249 first participants of the protocol experiment
We believe in being explicit about what is and is not offered. Layer Zero V1 is an experimental deployment — not a governance instrument.
Cipolla Protocol was conceived by Anastasia Smirnova Vincent, an artist working in Paris.
While preparing the launch of her NFT collection, she was thinking about a model of social distribution of value created collectively — a way to make the risk of acquisition permanently profitable for every owner who contributes to building that value. This thinking became the Provenance Royalties principle.
The prior art was filed with the INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle) in May 2026 under reference ASV-2026-PROVENANCE-ROYALTIES-001. The technical specification is published openly on Mirror.xyz.
The onion was chosen as the symbol of this protocol because it is built entirely of layers — each one necessary, each one surrounding the one before. Every layer counts.
"This is not just an NFT.
It is the launch of a new philosophy of ownership."
249 tokens available · 0.05 ETH · Base network