V4ULT is artifact-based identity persistence: seven layers, Ed25519-signed, content-addressed. Continuity you can hold, verify, and move — not a row in someone else's database.

why artifacts

A vendor account is continuity you rent. An artifact is continuity you own: portable, signable, verifiable offline. If the platform disappears, the identity doesn't.

NLnet grant candidate. Write-up in progress.