ERA 01 The age of creative financial freedom

The wave of
the future is human.

Welcome to the era of financial freedom, where human ingenuity is rewarded forever.

Probitect seals every song, story, image, style and discovery the moment it's made, with a hidden, blockchain-backed mark of origin. Fakes lose their power. And every use, remix, adaptation, and AI that learns from your work pays you back, for as long as it's used.

Rewarded forever→yoursongs
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enter the era
01 · A new word for a new layer

Not an NFT.
It's Probitect.

"NFT" came to mean a speculative token that anyone could mint for anything, usually after the fact. ByteRun flips that. A Probitect seal is created at the source, by an authorized device, on behalf of a verified human or organization. It carries ownership, license terms and royalty routing with the work for its whole life.

NFT 2021 ERA

  • Minted after the fact, by anyone, for anything
  • Points to a file but doesn't prove who made it
  • Value came from speculation and resale
  • Separate from the work and easy to strip away
  • No standard for licensing or ongoing use

Probitect BYTERUN

  • Sealed at the moment of capture, on a trusted device
  • Bound to a verified identity: person, studio, or lab
  • Value comes from use: licensing, citation, and AI training
  • Hidden in the signal itself (pixels, audio, text) and recorded on a public ledger
  • Machine-readable terms and automatic micro-royalties
probitect
verb · noun

To seal a work at creation with its maker's verified origin and terms. Also the seal itself.

unprobitected
adjective

Has no proof of origin. Treat it like an unsigned check: maybe real, never trusted.

runline
noun

The unbroken chain from creation to every reuse, remix, license and training run.

bytes-back
noun

The micro-royalty paid to an originator each time their work is used.

02 · How it works

Capture. Seal. Anchor. Earn.

ByteRun runs quietly on your computer, camera and phone. Nothing about how you create changes. Everything you make just leaves with proof attached.

01 / CAPTURE

On-device agent

A lightweight agent on your terminal, camera or DAW notices each new work as it's made: an image, a track, a manuscript, a dataset.

02 / SEAL

Signed at the source

Your device's secure key signs a fingerprint of the content and your identity. An invisible watermark goes into the signal itself.

03 / ANCHOR

Blockchain anchor

Only the fingerprint, ownership and license terms are written to a public blockchain as a smart contract, never the file itself, never the file. That gives the work a permanent, timestamped birth record anyone can check.

04 / EARN

Royalties that run

Licenses, citations, remixes and AI-training uses all trigger payment automatically. Even fractions of a cent add up when they're paid out at scale.

03 · Lives in your terminal

One command. Everything you make is covered.

Point ByteRun at your studio folder, camera roll or repo. It watches, probitects and registers in the background. No marketplace, no minting fees, no crypto wallet to manage.

  • ✓
    Survives edits and re-uploadsThe watermark holds up through compression, cropping, re-encoding and screenshots.
  • ✓
    Private by designYour files never leave your machine. Only fingerprints and terms are published.
  • ✓
    Hardware-rootedKeys stay in your device's secure enclave. A stolen file can't be re-probitected as someone else's.
~/studio — byterun
04 · The deepfake firewall

If it isn't probitected,
it isn't them.

Today, a convincing fake clip of a CEO, politician or artist can move markets and reputations in minutes. With Probitect seals the question flips: you don't have to prove a clip is fake, because the real one comes with proof. Try the verifier below.

SELECT
A FILE
statusPick any sample above to run a Probitect check.
05 · Paying the humans behind the models

AI learns from you.
Now it pays you.

Every model is trained on human work. Probitect seals make that work countable. Each time a probitected work goes into a training set, gets retrieved, or is cited in an answer, a micro-royalty flows back to the person who made it. It's a new, global source of income from human creativity.

your probitected work→training set→usage receipt→bytes-back
ESTIMATED BYTES-BACK / YEAR
$0

Illustrative only. Real rates will be set by the market and by licensing agreements.

06 · Publishing & adaptation rights

One book.
Every format. Every payout.

We're signing publishing houses and children's bookstores to the Probitect network. Each title's rights are probitected once and written into a smart contract on the blockchain. After that, the book can be licensed as an audiobook, an animated series, an app or an AI-narrated story, and the author, illustrator and publisher get paid automatically wherever it plays.

TITLE · "The Lantern Fox" · picture book · probitect pbt:0x4be2…
ROYALTY SPLIT · enforced by smart contract
  • 01
    Sign once, license everywherePublishers bring their backlist into the network under a single royalty agreement. No new negotiation for every format or territory.
  • 02
    Adapters license instantlyStudios, audio producers and app makers license a probitected title on standard terms and start production the same day.
  • 03
    Paid wherever it's shownStreaming, classrooms, apps, smart speakers, AI storytellers: every play is metered against the hidden watermark and settled on-chain.
  • 04
    Kids' catalogs firstChildren's titles get adapted more than any other category, into read-alongs, cartoons, toys and games. That makes them the fastest place to prove the model.
07 · Style is IP

When AI borrows a style,
the artist gets paid.

A visual signature, a director's camera language or a composer's sound takes a lifetime to build. Artists can register their style in the Probitect Style Registry. When someone prompts an AI with "in the style of…" a registered artist, a tiny payment is triggered on that project, routed through the same blockchain-backed watermark that marks the finished output.

Artists choose their terms: allow and get paid, require approval, or opt out entirely.

TRY A PROMPT · registered styles are fictional demo artists
STYLE MATCHES
PROJECT STYLE + SOURCE ROYALTIES
$0
08 · Two platforms, one standard

We're launching where originality matters most.

Both platforms run on the same Probitect protocol. One is built for individual creators. The other is built for the most expensive intellectual property on Earth: medicine.

Platform 01
ByteRun Create

For photographers, musicians, writers, filmmakers, designers and public figures. Everything you make is protected, provable and earning, without changing how you work.

  • Auto-probitect from your desktop, camera, phone and creative apps
  • Verified-identity badge for public figures that defeats impersonation
  • One-click license terms: personal, commercial, remix, or AI-training
  • Live dashboard of where your work appears and what it earned
  • Publisher & bookstore program: one royalty agreement covers audiobook, animation and app adaptations
  • Style Registry: get paid when AI is prompted with your style
  • Takedown evidence with a court-ready chain of origin
FOR · creators · artists · journalists · executives · studios · publishers · kids' bookstores
Platform 02
ByteRun Bio

For biotech and pharma. Research, compounds, protocols and data are probitected as licensable assets, so the investment keeps paying back long after the patent clock runs out.

  • Probitect lab notebooks, assays, sequences and trial data at creation
  • Open licensing: any qualified manufacturer can produce the therapy
  • Royalties route automatically to originators, investors and patient foundations
  • A longer payback window that makes rare-disease programs fundable
  • Audit-grade provenance for regulators and partners
FOR · biotech · pharma · academic labs · CDMOs · rare-disease funds
09 · ByteRun Bio

Cures shouldn't depend on
market size.

A new drug can take $1B or more and over a decade to develop. Patents last about 20 years from filing, but much of that time is spent in trials, so the window for selling the drug exclusively is often only around 10 years. If a disease affects too few people, the math never works, and the research doesn't get funded. ByteRun Bio changes the math: probitect the IP, license it openly to any qualified producer worldwide, and collect a royalty from every dose for far longer.

Patent-only payback
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Probitect payback
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30-yr return · patent
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30-yr return · Probitect
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Patent-only (exclusive, then generic cliff) Probitect (licensed + extended royalty) R&D cost to recover

Illustrative model, cumulative net return to originators and investors in $M by year after launch. Assumes about 10 years of exclusivity followed by a generic cliff, compared with open licensing from year 3 and royalties continuing to year 30. It's a concept, not a forecast.

// 01

Longer payback

Royalties keep flowing from licensed production well past the exclusivity cliff, so the investment has decades to pay back instead of a few years.

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Small diseases become fundable

When payback can stretch over a longer period and reach more countries, a patient population once seen as "too small" can still attract capital.

// 03

More access, more makers

Any qualified manufacturer can license the probitected IP and produce the therapy. More supply reaches more patients, and every dose sends a royalty back to the people who funded the research.

10 · The global standard

Every work, born with a birth certificate.

The goal goes beyond an app: an open standard where every photo, recording, text, dataset and discovery carries its origin by default, from cameras and phones to labs and AI models. It builds on emerging content-provenance work such as C2PA Content Credentials, and adds what's been missing: ownership, licensing and payment.

Open protocolAn open spec and reference implementation that any device maker, platform or lab can adopt.
Human firstIdentity is verified once, and privacy is preserved after that. You choose what's public.
Paid by useValue comes from works being used, not traded. Micro-royalties are settled automatically.
NOW · 2026

Prototype

Terminal agent, Probitect spec draft, verifier, and concept platforms.

2027

Pilots

Creator cohort on Create. First biotech and rare-disease partners on Bio.

2028

Device & AI partners

Probitecting built into cameras and phones, plus usage receipts from AI labs.

2029+

Open standard

Governed by a consortium. Probitect becomes the default for human-made work.

Early access

The future belongs to the originators.

Join the first creators, labs and investors building the Probitect standard.