Living Shield™ · Bitcoin-Anchored IP Protection · Evidence Chain Included
Anchor your work to Bitcoin. Issue licenses with automated compliance tracking. Arrive at any dispute with a block-by-block record that cannot be altered.
Living Shield creates a cryptographically verifiable revocation record. Enforceability in any specific jurisdiction depends on applicable law and has not been reviewed by IP counsel in all jurisdictions.
"Every other system arrives at a dispute with a filing date. We arrive with a block-by-block record of compliance status — timestamped and unalterable."
What anchoring proves
A Bitcoin anchor might prove that a particular fingerprint existed no later than a certain time. It does not, by itself, prove authorship, accuracy, lawful possession, contractual assent, or the truth of the underlying document.
The Mechanism
Four steps. Permanent anchoring. Automated compliance. Discovery-ready before any dispute begins.
Your IP is hashed and anchored to Bitcoin mainnet. The block height becomes your timestamped registration — immutable, permanent, not owned by any registrar. It exists before any dispute begins.
The Living Shield™ SDK begins pulsing every 10 minutes. Each pulse writes a new heartbeat record anchored to the current BTC block — a continuous, dated proof-of-life chain for the protected work.
Anyone using your work under ICPO X™ protocol embeds the SDK and calls verifyComplianceStatus() on initialization. Compliance verification runs at startup — with local cache and oracle fallback, it continues through transient network gaps up to 144 blocks (~24h).
Revoke the license. The heartbeat chain records exactly when. If the licensee removes the SDK, the gap is permanent on Bitcoin — timestamped at the block it occurred. You arrive at any dispute with a compliance-status record that cannot be altered. What the gap means is for the parties to determine; that it exists, and when, is verifiable on Bitcoin.
The SDK
Cooperative licensees stay compliant automatically. Non-compliance creates a permanent, timestamped gap in the Bitcoin record.
The Comparison
We arrive with a block-by-block compliance-status chain — when it was active, when it changed, and who was covered.
| Method | Cost | Evidence Chain | BTC Timestamp | Real-Time Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USPTO Patent | $15K–$50K to file | Filing date only | ||
| WIPO Registration | $20K–$80K/yr | Filing date only | ||
| Copyright registration | $500–$5K | Creation date only | ||
| NDA/Contract | $5K–$20K | Signed date only | ||
| Living Shield™ | From $2,500/yr |
Pricing
One payment. Bitcoin-anchored from day one. Evidence chain active and accumulating.
Discovery in a single IP dispute — even a straightforward one — starts at $5,000 and climbs fast. The evidence chain costs less than one day of that process and runs for a year.
Creator
Your documentation starts before the dispute does.
Enterprise
For IP portfolios that can't reconstruct their evidence after the fact.
Protocol
For entities building IP infrastructure into their operating model.