Proof of Wealth — Verification Terminal
> handshake with central bank ........ OK
> scanning offshore accounts ......... 3 FOUND
> counting yachts .................... TOO MANY
> verifying net worth ................
$0000%
Status: insufficient. Proceed anyway.
PoW
01Ledger02Trophy03Verify04Manifesto05Acquire
Net worth: unverified
Case study · 2026

Proof of
Wealth

Role
Concept, design, development
Type
Satirical e-commerce, WebGL
Year
2026
Stack
Next.js · Three.js · GSAP
01Brief

Sell a certificate that proves you are rich. Payable in crypto. Make it feel like the most expensive website on the internet, and make sure everyone is in on the joke.

02Decisions

A luxury house that sells nothing

The joke only works if the execution is dead serious. Every page borrows the restraint of fashion houses (vast type, slow motion, silence) and spends it on an absurd product.

Cyber-luxury

Basalt, cast acrylic and a fluorescent core: old-world materials lit like a server room. The interface talks like a lab terminal: serials, barcodes, bracketed labels.

One object, many states

The trophy is a single WebGL scene that travels with the scroll: hero, exploded technical view, then a colour-shifting companion to the pricing. It is never a static picture.

Proof that is actually provable

Certificates are signed on the server. The link is the database. Change one character and verification fails, which keeps the satire honest without needing a backend.

03Palette
Void
#0a0a0b
Background. Vault darkness.
Graphite
#161618
Surfaces, certificate paper.
Stone
#8e8e8a
Secondary text, basalt.
Bone
#edebe6
Primary text.
Acid
#c6ff00
The core. Signal of money.
Signal
#ff5b1f
Warnings, Solid tier.
04Typography
Aa
Clash Display · Display
Aa
Satoshi · Text
Aa
JetBrains Mono · Terminal
05Stack
Framework
Next.js 16 (App Router, Turbopack), TypeScript
3D
Three.js · React Three Fiber · drei MeshTransmissionMaterial · custom GLSL
Post FX
Bloom, chromatic aberration, vignette
Motion
GSAP ScrollTrigger + SplitText, Lenis smooth scroll
Styling
Tailwind CSS v4, CSS container queries
Proofs
HMAC-SHA256 signed, stateless certificate links
Social
next/og dynamic Open Graph images per certificate
Assets
AI-generated stills and video, colour-graded and cleaned in ffmpeg
Hosting
Vercel, deployed from GitHub
06Details worth finding