Real deployments

Capture in production.

The same provenance stack used by major newsrooms, human-rights documentation teams, and broadcast media — the use cases that put Capture on the map.

Human rights · Documentary evidence

Starling Lab + Rolling Stone — Emmy-nominated Ukraine war-crime documentation

In 2022, Starling Lab (a joint Stanford / USC research centre) collaborated with Numbers Protocol on Starling Capture, a custom build of the ProofSnap workflow that captured photographic evidence with embedded C2PA credentials and on-chain ERC-7053 receipts. The resulting evidence was published as a Rolling Stone documentary on Russian war crimes in Ukraine, which received an Emmy nomination.

What changed

  • Photographic evidence carried verifiable provenance from capture through publication.
  • The chain of custody — capture, transmission, editing, publication — was independently verifiable for ICC-grade scrutiny.
  • The methodology has since been adopted as a reference for human-rights documentation projects globally.

News & editorial

Reuters — 2020 US presidential transition archive

During the 2020 US presidential election and transition, Reuters partnered with Numbers Protocol to archive editorial photography with verifiable provenance. The deployment validated Capture's high-volume signing pipeline and on-chain registration under real newsroom workloads.

What changed

  • Reuters editorial photos gained tamper-evident provenance against the deepfake threat landscape.
  • The integration validated Capture's production-grade signing API and ERC-7053 throughput.
  • The workflow served as the technical pattern for subsequent newsroom integrations.

Broadcast media

DeFiance Media — broadcast-integrity deployment

DeFiance Media deployed Capture Eye across its broadcast media properties as a model for content integrity in the AI era. The integration surfaces full provenance to viewers, demonstrating a practical answer to the deepfake crisis that broadcast networks face.

"Capture Eye is a game-changer for media companies in the digital age, providing us the tools to maintain integrity while exploring new business models."

Marc ScarpaCEO, DeFiance Media

Creator economy

Pyro Image — provenance for visual storytellers

Pyro Image adopted Capture as the underlying provenance layer for its visual storytelling platform, citing Capture's leadership in the C2PA standard.

"We chose Capture because of their leadership in the provenance standard. Their solution has been instrumental in preserving the integrity of our content."

Yu Chih-WeiFounder, Pyro Image

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