The library does not have to burn.
AfriX is a heritage platform built for African and indigenous families. Family trees in original-language names. Oral history in the elder's own voice. Verified by community elders, not by an algorithm. Anchored on the Bantu blockchain as a Vault NFT — yours, forever. Only a cryptographic hash goes on chain. The content stays with the family.
Every day in Africa, an elder dies and a library burns. The proverb is old. The truth it names is older. Three generations of knowledge can vanish in a single afternoon.
AfriX is the first platform where your heritage can be preserved on your terms, in your language, with your elders' permission, and owned by your family — not by a corporation that may one day disappear.
What is lost when no one remembers?
The generation that holds oral genealogy in their heads is in its final decades. Without intentional capture, what they know goes with them.
Global descendants carrying fragments — names, songs, half-remembered villages — without the infrastructure to reweave them into a verifiable lineage.
Yorùbá, Amharic, Geʽez, Hausa, isiZulu, Yemba, Wolof, Akan — preserved byte-for-byte in original script. Latin alphabet is an option, not the default.
Four stages from spoken word to permanent record.
Built with honor for how families actually exist.
Names in their original script. Multiple parents rendered with equal visual weight. Clan structures preserved exactly as they are. No Western assumptions. No "first name, last name." Just your family, as your family knows itself.
- Three-zoom canvas — dot, chip, card with smooth crossfades
- Multi-parent partnership bars (no hierarchy)
- Original-script names preserved byte-for-byte
- Offline-first; sync when reconnected
Oral history captured in the elder's own voice.
Record audio and video in original language. No automated transcription that flattens nuance. No machine translation that erases register. The recording is the record. The original voice is the original truth.
- Audio + video + written stories per family member
- Multi-script transcription supported, but optional
- Original recording preserved byte-for-byte
- Hours of testimony per person, no limit
Truth verified by your community — not by an algorithm.
Stories are reviewed and confirmed by elders and peers who were there. Disputes are resolved through transparent mediation. The community is the source of truth because the community always was.
- Elders and peers verify or dispute claims
- Time-bound dispute mediation protocol
- Earn XBN tokens for verification work
- Verifications signed cryptographically
Minted as a permanent on-chain record. Yours forever.
Verified stories become Vault NFTs on the Bantu blockchain — cryptographic proof that the story existed and was verified by your community on a specific date. AfriX covers the on-chain minting on your behalf.
- Minting handled by AfriX — you don't pay the on-chain fee
- SHA-256 hash anchored; no personal data on chain
- Held in your custodial AfriX wallet
- Giftable to descendants; never sellable on exchanges
A hash, not your story.
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Hash the snapshot
AfriX builds a canonical snapshot of the record and computes its SHA-256 — a deterministic, one-way 32-byte fingerprint.
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Open a trustline
The AfriX Distribution account opens a transient trustline to a Bantu classic asset issued by the AfriX Issuer (asset code = your public anchor code).
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Mint, burn, close
Issuer mints exactly 1 unit to Distribution. Distribution burns it back to the Issuer and closes the trustline (limit = 0). Net change to chain state: zero.
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Hash in MEMO_HASH
The SHA-256 is written into the transaction's MEMO_HASH field — exactly 32 bytes, no encoding overhead. The transaction is signed and submitted to Public Bantu.
Two hashes end up on chain for every anchor: the memo hash (your record's fingerprint) and the transaction hash (Bantu's permanent identifier). Both are public. Neither reveals anything about your content.
Tree anchor
A snapshot of a tree's structure — members, relationships, edits, contributors. The first family tree ever anchored on Bantu is AFRIX-T-3DZZ4Z, on ledger 32,694,339.
Vault NFT
A verified story with its media fingerprints, contribution, and the Ed25519 signatures of every elder who verified it.
Member card
A single binary artefact — a portrait, an audio recording, a PDF — hashed directly. The atom of the archive.
What people are saying about the way their families finally fit.
“For the first time I have seen my grandmother's three co-wives shown at the same height as each other on a screen. I cried. I had no idea I needed that until I saw it.”
“My father recorded twelve hours of stories in Amharic before he passed. AfriX preserved every word in his own voice. No transcript could have held what he held.”
“As an elder in our village, I was asked to verify a young woman's lineage. The platform asked me — not a machine. That respect changed how I trust technology.”
“I am a fourth-generation descendant of people who left West Africa long ago. AfriX did not promise me a magic answer. It gave me a place to begin a real conversation.”
We are the last generation who can still hear the original voice saying the original word.
We refuse to be the generation who let it go silent. Six principles, condensed from the full text.
We name the loss.
When an elder dies in Africa, a library burns to the ground. We have counted enough fires. We are done watching.
We name the window.
The bridge between the generations is one or two seasons thick and the river is rising. We do not get this window back.
We name the wrong tools.
Platforms built for Western genealogy were not designed for polygamous households, matrilineal succession, or naming systems that carry season, ancestor, vow, clan, or song.
Verification over volume.
In the marketplace of attention, the loudest voice wins. In our archive, the witnessed voice wins. Trust is not a feature. Trust is the product.
We build on rails we own.
A continental archive cannot be a tenant on someone else's land. Bantu is African-built infrastructure. We do not move our memory through someone else's pipes. We laid our own.
We protect the original voice.
We will not translate over the elder. The audio is the canon. The translation serves. The original language is the truth.
What never touches the chain.
- Names, biographies, birth dates, photos — all stay with the family
- Audio and video recordings — stored encrypted off-chain; the hash is what's anchored
- Genealogical relationships — visible only inside AfriX, not from the chain
- Elder identities and signatures — Ed25519 public keys, never personal info
- Languages, scripts, dialects — preserved byte-for-byte in the snapshot, never on chain
Care work is paid for, not extracted from.
The work of recording an aunt before she passes, of verifying a cousin's lineage, of sitting with a Fon for an afternoon to capture a clan history — that is care work.
The Bantu (XBN) that flows between kin in the AfriX archive is a deliberate inversion: the platform does not extract from preservers. Preservers earn from the platform. The elder who sings is recognised. The cousin who verifies is recognised. The griot who corrects the record is recognised — in respect, in reputation, and where it is right, in value.
- Earned for verification, story capture, and curation.
- Gifted to family members on AfriX who do the work.
- Not bought or sold inside AfriX. This is recognition, not speculation.
- AfriX covers every on-chain fee for minting Vault NFTs. Users pay nothing to anchor.
The questions people ask.
What gets stored on the blockchain?
Only a cryptographic SHA-256 hash of your verified record. No personal data, no names, no biographies, no photos. The blockchain stores proof — not your content. Given the hash, no one can reconstruct anything. Anyone can later recompute the SHA-256 from the original snapshot and compare it to what's on chain to verify the record hasn't changed.
What happens to my Vault NFTs if AfriX shuts down?
They remain. The Bantu blockchain is public infrastructure independent of AfriX. The cryptographic proof that your story was verified by your community on a specific date will exist for as long as the Bantu network exists — which is, by design, indefinite.
What are XBN tokens used for?
XBN is the recognition token earned by verifying stories, recording oral history, and contributing to your community's archive. Within AfriX, XBN cannot be bought or sold — they are gifted. You can gift XBN to family members who do preservation work.
How much does it cost to mint a Vault NFT?
Nothing for the user. AfriX covers the on-chain transaction fee on your behalf. The platform handles every blockchain interaction so you can focus on your family's heritage rather than blockchain mechanics.
Can I sell my Vault NFTs?
No — Vault NFTs are designed for preservation, not speculation. You can transfer them to family members on AfriX or gift them to descendants, but they are not listable on public exchanges.
The library is still standing. Run, and carry the buckets.
Start with a single name and one story. Ask an elder. Open a notebook. Press record on a phone you already own. The first family tree ever anchored on Bantu started with a single name. The next one starts with yours.