Layer 04 · Provenance

The Vault

A public blockchain ledger for media assets. Each entry carries a unique fingerprint, universal context tags, and a zero-knowledge proof of authenticity. Submitters can attach identity if they want attribution, or remain unseen while the record stays verifiable.

A digital vault door with a glowing biometric fingerprint scanner and golden combination dial, warm light from the seams.
How it holds

Public ledger

Every asset receives an immutable, timestamped entry anyone can audit. No gatekeeper, no private index.

Capture to claim

Provenance begins at the shutter. Device signature, capture time, and location commitments are sealed before the file travels.

Chain of custody

Each edit, crop, and republication appends to the record instead of overwriting it. History is additive, never erased.

Verify without exposure

Zero-knowledge attestations confirm a photographer is credentialed without publishing their identity.

Use cases

From the photos on your phone to the footage that moves the world.

Everyday

Photography & memory

Seal the pictures that matter to you — a wedding, a first apartment, your grandmother's hands. The Vault proves they are yours, and real, long after phones and platforms change.

Everyday

Sharing without doubt

Send a photo and let it carry its own proof. Friends, buyers, and collaborators can check what they're looking at without asking you to vouch for it.

Everyday

Creative work & portfolio

Artists and makers anchor originals at the moment of creation, so reposts, prints, and commissions always trace back to the hand that made them.

Collective

Weather & environment

Storm cells, flood lines, wildfire fronts, glacier retreat. Imagery that moves markets and policy, currently traded on trust alone.

Collective

Civic & infrastructure

Municipal records, insurance claims, site inspections. Routine media where forgery is quietly expensive.

Collective

Conflict & crisis

The highest stake. Frontline and humanitarian imagery, verifiable in minutes, with source anonymity preserved.

Built on the layers below.

Press In learns your taste. Blend My World proves who you are without exposing you. The Vault takes that same cryptography and points it at the record itself, so what you see can be traced back to the moment it happened.

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One suite, four doors

The Vault works on its own.

The Vault stands alone as a submission and verification service: fingerprint an image, anchor it publicly, and let anyone audit its chain of custody.

Anchor proves a submitter is credentialed without naming them. Blend My World carries that proof into the open web. Press In surfaces verified media inside a reading feed.