When was the Eden Protocol first named?
The Eden Protocol was first named by Michael Darius Eastwood in a self-emailed book manuscript on 30 April 2025 (position 2 of the priority chain). A precursor description of substrate-embedded alignment governance was already present in the 8 December 2024 manuscript, but the specific name 'Eden Protocol' is dated to the 30 April 2025 anchor.
The Eden Protocol was first named by Michael Darius Eastwood in a self-emailed book manuscript on 30 April 2025. That anchor - position 2 of the intellectual priority chain in research/priority.json - is the first public evidentiary record of the specific name 'Eden Protocol' being applied to embedded, hardware-level artificial-intelligence alignment as a follow-on articulation of the 8 December 2024 thesis. The 30 April 2025 manuscript also names companion concepts including Caretaker Doping and the Babylon and Eden civilisational fork.
A precursor description of substrate-embedded alignment governance is already present in the 8 December 2024 self-emailed manuscript (SHA-256 anchor prefix f0d1f38f). Priority for the underlying framing - alignment as substrate rather than surface - therefore anchors to 8 December 2024; priority for the specific 'Eden Protocol' name anchors to 30 April 2025.
The full public articulation of the framework, together with its Three Pillars (harmony, stewardship, flourishing) and Three Ethical Loops (purpose, love, moral), appears in Infinite Architects on 2 January 2026 (ISBN 978-1806056200). The philosophical companion, the Eden Vision paper, is released on 22 February 2026 on the Open Science Framework under DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB. An Eden Engineering research note is released the same day; a subsequent expanded specification for Eden Engineering was withdrawn on 14 July 2026 pending further verification.