Archived version of record: DOI: [Accredited Work, Zenodo] Author: Christine DjerfORCID: 0009-0001-7175-9378Publisher: Akademía NyhetsekoLicense: CC BY 4.0 Abstract The Accredited Work Protocol introduces a decentralized framework for verifying and accrediting creative and intellectual work outside traditional institutional structures. In the modern digital environment, ideas and creative output circulate rapidly across networks, yet systems for establishing