The Protocol Lexicon

The Series

The Protocol Lexicon is a series of 115 paintings documenting the naming layer of agentic commerce, the vocabulary through which AI agents will conduct transactions on behalf of humanity.

Each painting renders a domain name from the Universal Commerce Protocol namespace in oil on linen. These are not speculative investments or digital assets. They are linguistic artifacts, the vocabulary through which a new commercial reality is being named into existence.

A domain is not "internet real estate." It is a language unit, a protocol unit, a pathway unit. It is a verb made into world-building. By painting them, Tan Mu transforms functional naming conventions into cultural documents, archives of a civilizational transition.

From Signal to Protocol

For years, Tan Mu has painted the invisible architectures that connect us. The Signal series traces submarine fiber-optic cables across ocean floors, the physical infrastructure through which 99% of intercontinental data flows.

If submarine cables are the physical layer of connection, protocol is its commercial logic. If Signal documents how data moves, The Protocol Lexicon documents how value will move in the age of artificial intelligence.

Signal documents perception. The Protocol Lexicon documents grammar. Together they form institution.

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Signal: Submarine Networks 04, 2025
Oil and acrylic on linen
152.5 x 183 cm ( 60 x 72 in)

The Lexicon

115 Domains Across the UCP Namespace

The 115 domains are organized around the Universal Commerce Protocol, future commerce rails, AI agent execution, language layer, system layer, institution layer. Each domain represents a painting; each painting documents a node in the infrastructure of agentic commerce.

I. Protocol Layer

universal-commerce-protocol.com
universal-commerce-protocol.org
ucp-protocol.com
ucp-api.com
ucp-gateway.com
ucp-network.com

II. Agent Layer

ucp-agent.com
ucp-agents.com
ucp-connect.com
ucp-hub.com
ucp-grid.com
ucp-layer.com

III. Commerce Layer

ucp-store.com
ucp-merchant.com
ucp-order.com
ucp-market.com
ucp-exchange.com
ucp-rewards.com

IV. Settlement Layer

ucp-pay.com
ucp-finance.com
ucp.cash
ucp.money
ucp.capital
ucp.exchange

Complete Lexicon (Selected)

ucp.asia · ucp.baby · ucp.beauty · ucp.best · ucp.blog · ucp.boutique · ucp.broker · ucp.build · ucp.builders · ucp.business · ucp.capital · ucp.cash · ucp.center · ucp.claims · ucp.coach · ucp.codes · ucp.college · ucp.company · ucp.computer · ucp.coupons · ucp.credit · ucp.deals · ucp.delivery · ucp.design · ucp.direct · ucp.discount · ucp.earth · ucp.eco · ucp.energy · ucp.engineer · ucp.engineering · ucp.enterprises · ucp.exchange · ucp.expert · ucp.finance · ucp.financial · ucp.foundation · ucp.homes · ucp.institute · ucp.investments · ucp.loans · ucp.market · ucp.marketing · ucp.markets · ucp.money · ucp.news · ucp.partners · ucp.report · ucp.sale · ucp.software · ucp.store · ucp.support · ucp.systems · ucp.tech · ucp.tips · ucp.ventures · ucp.works

Tan Mu

b. 1991 · Lives and works in the United States

Tan Mu is a contemporary artist whose research-driven practice examines the hidden infrastructures of technology, data, and signal shaping contemporary life. Working primarily through painting and visual systems, her work investigates how global structures intersect with human perception and collective memory.

Combining traditional oil painting with expanded visual tools, including microscopes, satellite imagery, and scientific visualization, she approaches technology as both an extension of the body and an externalization of memory.

The act of painting is an act of witnessing. In an era of instantaneous digital recording, Tan Mu chooses to devote tens to hundreds of hours to capturing a single image. Each stroke comes from a confrontation between brush and canvas, an accumulation of time, a form of mark-making that insists on presence and attention.

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