Hridyansh Khatri

Concept With the advent of AI, deep-fakes and the rise of social media regimes content ownership and appropriaion has become a hurdle for every creator. There is no verifiable and concrete way to prove content ownership in the web2 ecosystem. This has led to most of the current solutions being claim-based without any actual way to verify one's ownership of the underlying or to verify his claim. This has led to misappropriation of content and missing value accrual for the creator due to a flawed system. We propose a social verification protocol built to be trustless and achieve true value accrual for creators. A social platform where creators are judged by their peers who can attest to the verification/authenticity of content. With built-in dispute creation and resolution mechanisms to combat fraudulent content verification and keep validators in line. Platform Mechanism: Creators: Any user can put up content of any kind up for verification this process takes a small fee and a minimum timelock of 24 hours for any disputes to emerge without the need to put up collateral to challenge the authenticity of the content. Creators pay a small fee for every content verified this is used as incentive for Validators. Challenger: A Challenger is any user who disputes the authenticity of any verified or unverified content by either claiming it as his own or a misappropriation of another content. To create a dispute a challenger needs to put up a collateral equal to the verification fee. Challengers are granted ownership over the content or a form of economic incentive on a dispute ruled in their favour Validators: Validators are users who are economically incentivized with a portion of the fees collected from challengers and creators. A validator would need to put up a bond of 100 ETH which is slashed when a dispute is ruled in favour of the challenger where the validator was in support of verifying a piece of content.