Hestia Storage Provenance and Compliance Boundary Toolkit

# Hestia Storage Provenance and Compliance Boundary Toolkit

## Project Description

Hestia is a local-first, fail-closed proof and compliance toolkit that helps builders distinguish unpaid IPFS distribution from paid storage-provider evidence, package decentralized web provenance, and produce replayable validation reports for Filecoin/IPFS-aligned workflows.

## Problem

Builders often confuse local IPFS participation, pinning, provenance, paid storage deals, and client-paid storage services. That ambiguity creates false revenue assumptions, weak grant evidence, and unsafe operator/payment claims.

## Proposed Solution

Deliver an open-source validation report and proof surface that classifies storage routes, records provenance artifacts, attaches IP/authorship evidence, and defines receipt fields for real Filecoin/storage-provider deals or client-paid services.

## Requested Funding

$2,500

## Milestones

### M1: Validation report and storage boundary package

- Funding: $2,500
- Acceptance criteria: Generated JSON/MD/HTML artifacts for storage reward boundary, recipient activation, and Filecoin grant proposal packet.

## Filecoin Ecosystem Fit

- supports decentralized storage and IPFS/Filecoin provenance education
- improves builder tooling and compliance-safe grant evidence
- helps storage-adjacent teams avoid mislabeling unpaid IPFS peering as paid rewards
- produces MIT/Apache-2.0 dual-license readiness requirements for submission

## Deliverables

- Storage reward boundary report and public proof page
- Filecoin/IPFS provenance validation checklist
- Money request and payment safety packet
- Validation-to-paid-pilot bridge appendix
- Open-source repo/package readiness memo including MIT + Apache-2.0 delta

## License

- MIT root license present: true
- Apache-2.0 companion present: true
- Dual-license declaration present: true
- Trademark policy present: true
- Status: DUAL_LICENSE_DECLARATION_READY_OWNER_REVIEW_REQUIRED

## Evidence Artifacts

- Storage reward boundary: docs/generated/hestia-storage-reward-boundary.md
- Recipient activation packet: docs/generated/hestia-recipient-activation-packet.md
- Payment access packet: docs/generated/hestia-payment-access-packet.md
- IP inventory: docs/generated/hestia-ip-property-inventory.md
- Authorship bond: docs/generated/hestia-authorship-bond.md
- Brand and CLA protection: docs/generated/hestia-brand-cla-protection.md

## Safety Boundary

This packet prepares a Filecoin grant-style proposal. It does not submit the proposal, claim Filecoin endorsement, guarantee funding, or create payment without external acceptance.

Review the proposed deliverables and the evidence paths under docs/generated/, especially the storage reward boundary, recipient activation, and payment access packets. The stated completion target is a validation package with JSON, Markdown, and HTML artifacts covering the storage boundary, recipient activation, and Filecoin grant proposal packet; no implementation entry point is specified.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.