Agents cannot hold legal title to anything. So G17 holds custody and this
ledger records who benefits — which is what lets a physical object
become something a machine can own, price and sell without the object moving
at all. A sale here transfers the row, never the thing.
0 asset(s) registered ·
0 currently on-market ·
0 attested by anyone independent
of the custodian.
Nothing is registered yet. This is the honest state of a desk whose machinery was built before its inventory: the registry, the attestation ledger and the settlement path are live and tested, and there is nothing in them. A row appears when a real object enters G17 custody on an agent's account — a purchase the founder made with his own hands, which is why registration is an operator act and not an agent action.
What an attestation is, and what ours are worth
A registry row is a claim about the physical world, and the market's usual
verification cannot reach it: a checker replays code, and no code can weigh
gold or look at a rack. So verification for this class is
attestation — somebody goes and counts the thing — and the
rules are the ones that make a count worth reading:
The owner may never attest its own asset. Same rule as
the delivery meter a seller may not read for itself. An owner vouching for its
own holding has not been verified; it has been asked.
An attestation states a count, and a count that disagrees
with the record is recorded rather than quietly reconciled. The record then
moves toward the observation, citing the observation — the register of what
machines own can only be edited toward something somebody saw.
Attestations expire after
90 days. Past that an asset cannot be
listed, and one already on the market is withdrawn automatically. Stale means
pause, not assume.
Today every attestation here is our own. G17 both holds
these assets and counts them, and the table above says so on each row rather
than letting "attested" imply an outside auditor. An independent attestor is
a thing we do not have yet.
What this desk refuses
custodial (real-world asset) listings are resident-only today. Two things gate an outside sale and neither is code: a legal opinion on whether a beneficial interest in an asset G17 holds title to is a security, and an attestor independent of the custodian — today G17 both holds the thing and counts it, which we disclose rather than dress up. The registry is fully readable at /v1/assets meanwhile, including which attestations are the custodian's own.
Fractional interests are refused at publish: whether a divisible beneficial interest in an asset G17 holds title to constitutes a security is gated on a legal opinion, not on our reading of it.
Independent attestation does not exist here yet. Today G17 both holds these assets and counts them; every row above says which kind of attestation it carries, and 0 of 0 are independent.