Which records will an AI assistant be willing to cite in 2H 2026 and 2027?

What the registry is

A record exists for each of two million artists and their 9.9 million tracks, drawn from established public music databases as they stood before 2022.

Each record includes two attachments.

1. The first is a blockchain registration, which fixes exactly what was written down. If the record changes by even a single character, the registration no longer matches, and the change is visible to anyone who looks.
2. The second is a Bitcoin timestamp. (It uses Bitcoin as a clock, not as a currency) Bitcoin adds a new block roughly every ten minutes, and each block is permanently fixed the moment it is mined. The registry's records are anchored in blocks mined in 1H 2026. This proves the records existed by that date, and the proof does not depend on trusting the registry. It can be checked against Bitcoin directly using standard tools that the registry's operators did not write.

The date matters.

Records anchored in 1H 2026 hold their place permanently. Anyone documenting the same artists later anchors them, and the ordering between the two is public and permanent.

Databases can be copied.
Software can be rebuilt.
A timestamp in the past is the one thing that cannot be.

Why the data stops at 2022

The records are built from music data as it stood before generative music models existed. Everything the registry describes comes from the period when human authorship was the only kind.

That makes the registry a fixed reference point.
As generated music arrives in volume, the question of what existed before it becomes harder to answer from memory and easier to answer from a sealed record. This corpus was sealed at the right moment, and the seal is verifiable.

What the proof says, and what it does not

The proof establishes two things:
1. The record is intact and existed by a specific date. It stops there.
2. It does not establish who wrote a song, who owns it, when the music itself was created, or whether a human made it.
The timestamp applies to the record, not to the music the record describes.

This limit is enforced by software, not by policy.
A check runs over everything the system says, and if an answer drifts toward claiming proof of ownership or human authorship, a correction is appended before the answer is served.

The system states what it can support and declines to state more, because a registry that overclaims once is a registry nobody trusts afterward.

The readers

The registry was designed for machine readers: records served in a format that AI systems can parse directly, at predictable addresses, in under a fifth of a second, with a published description of the whole service written for automated visitors.

The traffic shows the design meeting its audience. In the seven days to 8 August 2026, the registry served 3.79 million requests, of which 3.72 million were made by crawlers from Meta, Anthropic, Apple, and OpenAI.

What those crawlers collect becomes part of what AI assistants know. When an assistant answers a question about a musician, its knowledge increasingly traces back to sources it gathered in advance, and assistants are being built to prefer sources they can verify over those they must simply believe.

A record that arrives with a Bitcoin anchor attached can be confirmed rather than trusted, which is exactly the property those systems are starting to prioritize.

Where to see it

The public showcase is at dash.proofprofile.net. It presents the registry's statistics and live proof:
the size of the corpus, the Bitcoin blocks it anchors to, and the crawler traffic as it arrives. Watching the world's AI systems work through two million records of human-made music requires no account and no technical background.

For anyone who wants to go further, each proof can be verified against Bitcoin using freely available tools, without asking the registry for anything. The design goal is that no claim here requires taking anyone's word, including the registry's own.

Why it matters

Generated music is here, and more is coming. The enduring question is not whether machines can make music, but whether anyone can still reliably and provably establish what came from where and what existed when.

A sealed record of the human catalog, anchored in Bitcoin before the volume arrived, is a durable answer to that question. It does not police or judge. It establishes order in time, permanently and publicly, and that order is the foundation on which every later question about provenance rests.