Use Cases
ALX Protocol represents a digital artifact as a Block with a deterministic identity and an explicit set of declared parents. The pages below work through what that means in four domains. Each page answers a different practical question.
Every page states its scope as plainly as its capability. ALX verifies deterministic identity, declared lineage, and graph structure. Applications remain responsible for content semantics, permissions, trust decisions, ownership, governance, and storage.
Where ALX Applies
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AI & Agent Workflows — An agent answer is useless to the next system if the sources and tool results that produced it live only in the orchestrator's private logs.
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Software Provenance — A reviewer who receives only the artifact and the build system's own metadata has no independent way to re-derive which inputs that release declared.
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Research & Data — A methods section can read the same after a dataset is re-exported; the files themselves do not say which cleaned table produced a figure.
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Compliance & Audit Records — Two organizations that exchange approvals and evidence need a common identifier for the same record, not a row number that resolves in only one system.
Start Building
The Quick Start creates and validates a Block in a few minutes. Compose Blocks into a Graph covers declaring parent relationships once the first Block exists.