From a village to forever
Five steps turn one afternoon’s recording into permanent, community-owned memory.
Pack your kit
Claim a Field Pass — your identity on the archive. No gatekeeping: a student, a traveller, or a community elder all carry the same key.
Visit & record
Sit with a community. Record a song, a dance, a craft, a dialect, a story — phone footage is enough. Consent of the keepers is logged with every upload.
AI authenticates
The assistant transcribes and translates, identifies the language and region, checks for duplicates, and weaves your recording into the cultural knowledge graph.
Mint a Heritage Tablet
Your contribution becomes a Heritage Tablet — a digital artifact with permanent provenance. The originating community is named as origin and co-owner.
Earn & sustain
Contributors earn $LORE. Whenever a Tablet is collected or referenced, royalties flow to the community fund — heritage that pays the people who keep it alive.
Built for the keepers
A clay tablet for the digital age
Each verified recording is sealed on the Lineage ledger as a Heritage Tablet — permanent provenance, the community named as origin, and royalties routed home. Collect one and you fund the people who keep the tradition alive.
The source comes first
Extraction is the old story of heritage. FirstCiv is built the other way around: consent is required, ownership stays with the community, and the money flows back to the people whose memory it is.
Consent first
Nothing is recorded or minted without the documented consent of the community keepers. Consent is itself stored on-chain.
Community-owned
The originating community is named as origin and primary beneficiary of every Heritage Tablet — and can veto or withdraw a record.
Royalties home
70% of every collection and reference royalty flows to the community fund. Contributors earn, but the source earns more.
Permanent & open
Provenance is public and immutable; the media is mirrored across open storage so no single institution can lock it away.
Somewhere, an elder is the last who remembers
A song, a story, a way of weaving. You don’t need to be a scholar — only present, and respectful. Record it before it is gone, and let it belong to the people it came from.