The Age of Extraction Is Over.

Peppy Protocol — February 2026

Manifesto. Visionary. Poetic.

5,000 Years

The first advertisement was carved in Egypt, around 3000 BCE. Five thousand years later, the deal hasn't changed: someone captures your attention, someone else profits, you get nothing.

Stone → papyrus → print → radio → TV → internet → algorithm. The extraction didn't.

Three Ages

AgeEraWhat They TookHow
Broadcast1920s–1990sYour timeInterrupt and repeat
Digital2000s–2010sYour dataSurveillance capitalism
AI2020s–Your predictionAlgorithms predict you
The extraction became autonomous. The people still get nothing.

The Scarcity Paradox

Average attention span: 47 seconds (down from 2.5 minutes in 2004).

Attention is scarcer. Demand is increasing. Price should go up for the supplier. But the supplier — you — has no seat at the table.

In the attention economy, the person producing the attention doesn't exist as an economic actor. Until now.

The Invention

Cost Per Presence (CPP)

  • Measurable (BLE + GPS double verification)
  • Verifiable (on-chain attestation)
  • Compensated (30% of ad revenue flows to the person)
CPP doesn't improve advertising. It makes attention a recognised input.

The System

[Person]  ←→  [BLE Beacon on Screen]  ←→  [Peppy Protocol]  ←→  [Advertiser]
   ↑                                            ↓
   └────────────── 30% of revenue ──────────────┘

Passive. Verified. Settled. Walk past screen. Earn.

The Working Prototype

Live demo — beacon → app → backend → dashboard.

This is real. Earnings credited in real-time.

The Market Waiting to Be Created

$42B of OOH advertising has no attribution. When CPC made clicks measurable, digital advertising grew from $2B to $700B.

CPP doesn't just measure the existing $42B. It creates a new category — physical-world performance marketing — that could be multiples larger.

From Earning to Owning

PeppyCoin — the protocol's native currency

  • Earn — presence → tokens (passive income)
  • Own — tokens → Billboard Gems (fractional screen ownership)
  • Compound — screen generates revenue → more tokens → more ownership
  • Identity — transaction history becomes your digital self
  • Agency — your AI transacts for you. On your terms.
The age of extraction replaced by the age of ownership — in five steps.

The Self-Sovereign Future

Today: Platform owns your profile → sells it → you get $0. Tomorrow: You own your profile → your agent sells access → you set the price.

Peppy builds this from the most basic, verifiable fact about you: You were here.

Why Now

  • AI is breaking the digital advertising model ($700B at risk)
  • IAB/MRC standardised attention measurement (Nov 2025)
  • Consumer crypto UX is solved (no wallets, no gas)

What We've Built

  • Working CPP prototype
  • 4,213+ billboards mapped (Melbourne), 10,000 by next week
  • 7 smart contracts on zkSync testnet
  • Team of 6 enterprise engineers
  • LEDPoint = warm screen operator relationships

The Team

Same team slide — enterprise engineers + protocol builders.

Join the Inversion

Attention → Measurement → Ownership (for you)

The age of extraction is over. The age of ownership begins.

Don't look for free.

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