Crono Tag: Blockchain-sealed proof of innovation, ensuring tech fairness and building public IP infrastructure
Dapp Link: https://cronotag.vercel.app/
Imagine a brilliant scientist—Dr. Aarya Sen—working late into the night on a cancer-curing compound. She’s made a breakthrough that could save millions. But in the chaos of academia and the noise of social platforms, her research risks being lost, stolen, or miscredited. Months later, a pharma company publishes similar findings. Dr. Sen had the idea first—but how can she prove it?
Enter Crono Tag.
Crono Tag is a decentralized intellectual property (IP) timestamping and licensing platform built for researchers, creators, and innovators. It transforms how IP is protected, offering undeniable proof of originality and ownership using blockchain technology. By decentralizing IP attribution, Crono Tag directly addresses the urgent need for technological fairness in an increasingly digital and AI-driven world. It serves as vital public infrastructure for the creator economy, ensuring credit where credit is due.
At its core, Crono Tag:
Generates a 12-digit unique ID—a “CronoTag”—for every research document, calculated using the timestamp of upload and ASCII values of the researcher's name and designation.
Secures the document on-chain (or IPFS linked), with access only available to the original wallet used during registration, upholding data sovereignty for creators.
Allows public metadata access (research details, title, tags), ensuring visibility without compromising sensitive IP content. This transparent yet private approach fosters fair access to information without IP leakage.
Acts as an immutable proof-of-work, even beyond the life of the creator—ensuring legacy validation and preserving historical accuracy of innovation.
For Technological Fairness:
Protects Early-Stage Research: Even before publishing, researchers can establish provable authorship and priority, combating plagiarism and misattribution in competitive fields.
Decentralized Attribution: Crono Tag provides a fair, transparent, and censorship-resistant mechanism for IP ownership that is not beholden to any single institution or platform.
Empowers Individual Innovators: It levels the playing field, giving individual creators the tools to assert their rights against larger entities or widespread misinformation.
For Public Infrastructure:
Foundational IP Layer: Crono Tag provides a critical, open-source layer for verifiable IP, essential for building future decentralized creator economies and research collaborations.
Reduces Legal Friction: By offering indisputable proof of creation, it streamlines future licensing, disputes, and collaborations.
Trustless Verification: The blockchain-backed nature means verification is trustless and globally accessible, making it a robust piece of public digital infrastructure.
User uploads their IP file (e.g., PDF, DOCX, datasets).
A unique CronoTag ID is generated.
File gets timestamped and hashed, stored on IPFS or an encrypted chain link.
Metadata is made publicly searchable by CronoTag, Name, or Tags.
Only the original wallet can unlock and download the actual IP content.
Proof of authorship can be generated anytime—even posthumously.
Our future upgrades will further enhance Crono Tag’s role in decentralized fairness and public infrastructure:
Zero-Knowledge Proof for File Verification: Allowing verification without revealing sensitive IP content.
Tokenized Licensing Marketplace: Enabling fair and transparent monetization of IP.
Posthumous Claim System: Ensuring creators' legacies are preserved and managed by heirs, furthering fairness across generations.
KYC Integration for Institutions: Verifying academic and research entities to enhance trust within the ecosystem.
Multi-sig Vaults for Research Teams: Facilitating fair, collaborative IP management.
AI-Assisted IP Summarization: Making research more accessible and discoverable.
We see a strong future synergy with initiatives like Modular Identity & Reputation with CARV ID (ERC-7231). Integrating Crono Tag with a universal, verifiable identity standard like CARV ID could create a robust, on-chain reputation system built directly on an individual's provable intellectual contributions. This would further solidify the link between a creator's identity and their authenticated work, enhancing both fairness and trust in decentralized ecosystems.
Crono Tag isn’t just a product—it’s a movement to preserve truth and credit in innovation. In a world where information moves fast and attribution is messy, Crono Tag plants a flag—a timestamped beacon that says: "I was here first."
Let’s give creators eternal proof. Let’s give the world transparent innovation. Let’s tag time itself.
This is Crono Tag.
Frontend Made, smart contract deployment and demo videos.
Crono Tag is currently in its early-stage development and actively seeking seed funding and grants to build a secure, scalable MVP and onboard our first cohort of researchers and academic institutions. We’re open to ecosystem grants. The funding will be directed toward smart contract audits, frontend development, storage costs, user acquisition, and research community partnerships.