Press & Media — XXXIII Publishing

At a Glance

The Numbers

3Books Published

60+Stories & Chapters

75k+Words Anchored

7Smart Contracts

293Tests Passing

FreeTo Read & Listen

XXXIII Publishing is the only literary operation with an open, formally documented, cryptographically verifiable provenance standard for prose fiction. Every word published under XXXIII has been hashed, Merkle-treed, and anchored immutably on Polygon Mainnet with no admin keys, no upgrade paths, and no ability for anyone — including the author — to alter the anchored record.

Key Claims

What Makes This Different

First full-length literary work anchored on-chain under a formal provenance standard. The 2,500 Donkeys (75,000 words, 31 chapters) was anchored on Polygon Mainnet in February 2026 under LPS-1, the first open standard for on-chain literary provenance.
The LPS-1 standard is open, MIT-licensed, and independently replicable. Any author can anchor their work on-chain by following the published specification at github.com/FTHTrading/LPS-1-Reference-Implementation.
All three books are free to read and listen to online. No paywall, no registration, no subscription. Audio narration powered by OpenAI TTS.
Cross-chain provenance by design. Polygon for anchoring, Bitcoin for cross-chain timestamps via OpenTimestamps, IPFS for content addressing. Multi-layer, multi-network.
DOI-registered scholarly paper on the protocol. "Deterministic Literary Publishing: A Multi-Layer Provenance Model for Verifiable Manuscripts" — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18646886.
The books document what they prove against. The 2,500 Donkeys is a literary investigation into financial fraud and unverifiable documents — written to be verifiable itself.

The Works

Published Titles

Title	Genre	Length	Published	Chain
The 2,500 Donkeys	Literary fiction	31 chapters · ~75,000 words	Feb 2026	Polygon (LPS-1 L5)
Private Placement Programs	Literary fiction	14 stories · ~35,000 words	Feb 2026	Polygon (LPS-1)
Crypto War Room	Literary fiction	15 stories · ~30,000 words	Feb 2026	Polygon (LPS-1)

"The goal was to write books about the ecosystem of unverifiable documents — and then make those books the most verifiable documents in that ecosystem. The irony is intentional."

— Kidd James (Kevan Burns), author

The Author

About Kidd James

Kidd James is the pen name of Kevan Burns, a writer and technologist based in Norcross, Georgia. Burns is the author of three literary works investigating financial belief systems — Private Placement Programs, cryptocurrency scam architectures, and the chain-letter economics of global financial fraud.

Burns designed and implemented the LPS-1 (Literary Provenance Standard version 1) protocol, the first formally documented, openly licensed specification for cryptographic provenance in literary publishing. The protocol has been registered with a DOI, cited in academic contexts, and is available for use by any author under the MIT license.

Burns holds an ORCID identifier (0009-0008-8425-939X) and is identifiably associated with all works published under the XXXIII imprint.

Based in: Norcross, Georgia (Atlanta metro area)
ORCID: 0009-0008-8425-939X
GitHub: github.com/FTHTrading
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18646886

Media Assets

Downloads & Links

All assets may be used freely in editorial coverage of XXXIII Publishing and Kidd James. Please credit: "XXXIII Publishing / Kidd James."

Cover Image (PNG)

The 2,500 Donkeys front cover

LPS-1 White Paper (PDF)

Deterministic Literary Publishing — full protocol paper

LPS-1 Reference Repo

Full implementation on GitHub (MIT license)

Zenodo DOI Record

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18646886 — citeable

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