How DOM Works
This museum isn't paid for by ads or a foundation grant. It's paid for by a machine — one that turns a small act of preservation into a permanent reduction in a token's supply. Here's the whole thing, start to finish, with the real numbers underneath.
01The one-sentence version
You seal a piece of Bitcoin history — a block, a day, a name — and the small fee you pay is used to buy DOM on the open market and burn it. The token supply gets permanently smaller. That shrinking supply is the museum's endowment: not a bank balance that can be spent, but a number that only ever goes down.
No subscription, no ads, no company holding your money. The whole loop runs as public code on the Internet Computer, and every figure on this page is read live from it.
02What you can actually do
Four ways in — each one seals something real onto the chain, and each one feeds the same engine.
03The flywheel
Every one of those acts pushes the same wheel. Fees come in as ICP; ICP buys DOM; DOM is burned; the supply falls; the scarcer token makes the next act worth more to preserve. Round and round.
04Why burning is the funding
It sounds backwards — how does destroying a token pay for anything? Because DOM has a fixed ceiling of 1,000,000 and can never mint beyond it. Every token burned is one that can never come back. So the "endowment" isn't cash in an account someone could quietly drain; it's a public, permanent reduction anyone can verify on-chain. The museum is funded the way a lighthouse is funded by removing rocks — the value is in what's no longer there.
You never have to touch DOM to enjoy the museum. Reading, browsing, and searching are free and need no wallet. DOM is simply the mechanism that keeps the lights on without an owner. See the live endowment ledger →
05Where it lives
There is no server, no company account, and no custodian. Each part of the machine is an autonomous canister on the Internet Computer — you can call any of these yourself and check the numbers on this page.