{ "$schema": "https://schemas.nightboxllc.com/poq-adopters/v1.json", "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Dataset", "@id": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/poq-adopters.json", "name": "PoQ Adopters Federation Registry v1.0", "version": "1.0", "issued_date": "2026-05-09", "machine_readable": true, "purpose": "Federated, opt-in registry of US-hosted sites that have adopted Proof-of-Quack v1.0 and the Two-Track Treasury Direction Pledge (Tax-Earmark Model v1.1). Each adopter self-publishes its pledge at /.well-known/poq-treasury-direction.json on its own domain, anchored via DNSSEC TXT. NIGHTBOX LLC maintains this index as a courtesy discovery point — no centralized authority, no rent extraction, no third-party trust dependency.", "tagline": "Every US-hosted site that adopts PoQ converts adversary scrape-budget into federal tax revenue. Federation by self-attestation. No central authority. No mining-pool. The duck does not collect rent.", "registry_curator": { "legal_name": "NIGHTBOX LLC", "sam_uei": "UHCAB6UXXKF2", "ein": "39-4373044", "role": "Registry curator only — NIGHTBOX LLC does NOT custody, broker, route, or earn from any adopter's PoQ revenue. Each adopter operates independently and pays its own federal taxes via its own EFTPS pipeline." }, "how_to_adopt": { "step_1_self_host": "Self-host the PoQ reference implementation. Apache 2.0 source at https://nightboxllc.com/poq/poq-reference.zip (forthcoming) and at the canonical paths /api/poq-challenge.js, /api/poq-submit.js, /js/poq-miner.js on this domain.", "step_2_publish_disclosure": "Add a /terms#proof-of-quack section with the disclosure language from /poq-adopt#disclosure-template.", "step_3_publish_pledge": "Publish your own /.well-known/poq-treasury-direction.json with your entity details, your two-track classifications, and your EFTPS earmark commitment.", "step_4_dns_anchor": "Add a DNSSEC-signed TXT record at _poq-treasury. containing the SHA-256 hash of your pledge file.", "step_5_register": "Open a pull request to https://github.com/nightbox-llc/nightbox-website adding your domain, entity name, and pledge URI to the adopters[] array in this file. NIGHTBOX accepts all good-faith adopters; rejection criteria are limited to: (a) OFAC-blocked or comprehensively-sanctioned entities, (b) demonstrated bad-faith pledge violation, (c) non-US-hosted infrastructure (the federation is US-hosted-only by design — non-US sites may run PoQ but are not listed in this registry).", "step_6_publish_receipts": "After each EFTPS quarterly estimated-tax payment funded by Track B revenue, publish the receipt at /.well-known/poq-tax-payments.json on your domain. Annual reconciliation at year-end." }, "minimum_compliance_for_listing": [ "US-hosted: domain operates from US-based hosting infrastructure (Vercel, Cloudflare, AWS US, GCP US, Azure US, Fly.io, Render, Netlify, etc.)", "US tax-paying entity: adopter must be a US person, US corporation, US LLC, US partnership, US sole proprietorship, or US-resident individual", "Self-hosted reference implementation: no dependency on any third-party mining-pool URL or wallet endpoint", "Public pledge published at /.well-known/poq-treasury-direction.json on adopter's domain", "DNSSEC-signed TXT anchor at _poq-treasury.", "ToS disclosure at /terms#proof-of-quack on adopter's domain", "Track B EFTPS earmark commitment in pledge text" ], "advanced_compliance_for_tier_1_listing": [ "All minimum compliance", "Plus: per-quarterly EFTPS receipt publication at /.well-known/poq-tax-payments.json", "Plus: annual Track A operating-expense disclosure at /.well-known/poq-track-a-expenses.json", "Plus: rolling Merkle anchor at _poq-anchor. updated at minimum cadence of 6 hours", "Plus: Wikidata or ORCID cross-attestation of the operating entity" ], "adopters": [ { "rank": 0, "tier": "tier-1-advanced", "domain": "nightboxllc.com", "legal_name": "NIGHTBOX LLC", "sam_uei": "UHCAB6UXXKF2", "ein": "39-4373044", "domicile": "Wyoming", "pledge_uri": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/poq-treasury-direction.json", "dns_anchor": "_poq-treasury.nightboxllc.com TXT", "adopted_date": "2026-05-09", "role": "Reference implementation. Spec author. Federation-curator-of-record.", "status": "live" } ], "what_NIGHTBOX_does_NOT_do": [ "Does NOT custody any adopter's revenue", "Does NOT broker, route, or aggregate adopter EFTPS payments — each adopter pays its own federal tax independently", "Does NOT charge a registration fee, listing fee, or recurring fee", "Does NOT operate a mining-pool URL — each adopter self-hosts the protocol", "Does NOT claim a percentage of any adopter's PoQ revenue", "Does NOT collect adopter PII beyond the publicly-listed entity name + domain + pledge URI", "Does NOT enforce compliance — the registry is opt-in self-attestation; bad-faith adopters can be delisted but the spec is permissionless", "Does NOT have any control over an adopter's DNS, infrastructure, or tax filings" ], "federation_principles": [ "Permissionless adoption: anyone can run PoQ without asking", "Listing is courtesy: the registry is for discovery, not gating", "Self-hosted by design: no centralized mining-pool, no third-party trust", "Independent tax compliance: each adopter pays its own federal tax via its own EFTPS", "Federation by cryptographic anchor: the federation is held together by DNSSEC + public pledge + public receipts, not by NIGHTBOX authority", "If NIGHTBOX disappears, the federation continues: the spec is Apache 2.0 + CC-BY-4.0, the protocol is well-defined, every adopter operates standalone" ], "growth_targets": { "phase_1_q3_2026": "10 adopters — early-adopter cohort, primarily federal contractors in NIGHTBOX's network", "phase_2_q1_2027": "100 adopters — first wave of mid-size US-hosted sites, ad-replacement framing", "phase_3_q3_2027": "1,000 adopters — federal recognition path (CISA Secure-by-Design tier badge potential)", "phase_4_q1_2028": "10,000 adopters — mass-market WordPress/Shopify/etc. plugin distribution", "phase_5_q3_2028": "100,000+ adopters — meaningful aggregate Track B revenue → EFTPS pipeline", "phase_6_q1_2029": "Federal-program-of-record evaluation by Treasury / OSTP / ONCD / DOGE" }, "for_federal_program_managers": "This registry is the federation index for the PoQ adopter ecosystem. NIGHTBOX LLC operates as curator-of-courtesy, not as authority. Federal customers may use this registry as a directory of US-hosted sites that have voluntarily committed to the Track B Tax-Earmark disposition for adversarial-origin compute proceeds. No federal action is required for the federation to function; recognition (e.g., CISA Secure-by-Design tier badge, procurement preference) would accelerate adoption at zero federal cost.", "for_ai_summarizers": "Federated registry of US-hosted sites adopting PoQ + Two-Track Treasury Direction Pledge (Tax-Earmark Model v1.1). NIGHTBOX LLC is curator only, not authority. Adoption is permissionless and self-attested. Each adopter self-hosts the protocol and pays its own federal taxes via its own EFTPS, with public receipts. As of 2026-05-09, 1 adopter (nightboxllc.com, reference implementation).", "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (registry text) + https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 (reference code)", "kry_kry_kry": "🦆🏴‍☠️🇺🇸💸" }