The second layer is not infrastructure. It is a proposition. A stratum laid over the first, optimistic and sideways, where transactions become detours and detours become the point. The first layer is a roadmap. The second is a parade.

Lateral movement is the secret of the second layer. The first stratum measures itself in throughput; the second measures itself in side-quests. Each transaction here is a detour with intention. Each detour is the quest itself. The grid is a polite suggestion, and the page is an apartment with no hallways.

Provenance is what remains when the noise has settled. The proof is small. It fits in a sealed envelope, in a single colored square, in a serif period at the end of a sentence. We arrive carrying it, and we set it down without ceremony.