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What is Monolith?

Monolith is how artists protect themselves by making it impossible for their work to be used without attribution. By attaching a digital Mark to every file — a Mark that can’t be stripped, cropped, or ignored by AI — creators have the proof they need to take credit for everything they make.

The problem

The internet made it hard for artists to protect their work. AI has made it nearly impossible. Creative work is being scraped, copied, and consumed at unprecedented scale, with no record of who made what. The people behind creative work are disappearing from it entirely.

Credit is what connects a creator to their work. Without credit, there is no discovery, no compensation, no reason to share anything at all.

The Monolith approach

Every file ever created has a unique fingerprint — a SHA-256 hash of its bytes. On Monolith every artist sets up a Mark: a creative identity that carries their custom details (name, license, AI training preference, links).

When you upload a file, Monolith captures only the fingerprint and binds it to your Mark. The result is an Artifact — a permanent record that includes:

  • A C2PA manifest (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity ) that travels with the file and is recognized by Adobe, Google, Microsoft, Sony, and OpenAI
  • Anchored on-chain so attribution can’t be erased
  • Optional public discovery on the Monolith gallery

Anywhere that content is shared, the information in your Mark is preserved and verifiable by anyone in the world.

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