OpenOrigins’ Content Provenance Framework Is Now a Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust Lab
Jul 9, 2025
OpenOrigins, the only company with a decentralized infrastructure for definitively proving images and videos are real and human-created in the age of AI, today announced its Human-Oriented Proof System (HOPrS) has been accepted as a Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LF Decentralized Trust) lab. The open source framework for identifying tampering and edits to digital media will now be part of the premier open source foundation for decentralized technology and accessible to hundreds of thousands of developers.
HOPrS creates a perceptual fingerprint for images and pinpoints exactly where digital media has been edited compared to the original file. The framework for digital media content authenticity and provenance optimizes established academic work in Quad-trees, Zauner pHash, and Merkleization for media scale.
“We see strong potential in the LF Decentralized Trust community to benefit from HOPrS and continue to develop the framework, making it even more robust for future applications,” said Dr. Manny Ahmed, co-founder and CEO of OpenOrigins. “Contributing to open source initiatives builds on our mission to create a global trust infrastructure for user-owned, verifiable data provenance that is free from centralized control.”
HOPrS works with any blockchain and enables users to verify media authenticity without needing the original file. HOPrS breaks an image into smaller quadrants to identify if any edits have been made in each segment and delivers a final similarity or difference score compared to the original. With HOPrS, raw files do not need to be exposed to achieve privacy-preserving proofs.
“The addition of HOPrS to the LF Decentralized Trust labs enables our community to access and collaborate on crucial tools for verifying content in the age of generative AI,” said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust. “By contributing HOPrS to our labs, OpenOrigins is tapping into a global network of developers, creating an accessible entry point for incubation, experimentation, and community building.”
The HOPrS LF Decentralized Trust lab is the latest in a series of developments that OpenOrigins has made to advance its content provenance solution, including an iOS photo and gallery app and SDK to record provenance from the point of capture, as well as new anchoring APIs for customers to secure and verify their media and text files.
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About OpenOrigins
OpenOrigins proves images and videos are real and human-created from the moment of capture through consumption. As increasingly sophisticated AI deepfakes make detection mechanisms obsolete, the company’s proprietary content-provenance technologies deliver immutable proof that digital media is original and unedited from the start. Built on a highly scalable, custom blockchain, OpenOrigins’ trust infrastructure is protected against manipulation and tampering. OpenOrigins enables people, companies, and governments to distinguish real content from fake with a variety of solutions, including Secure Sourcing, Archive Anchoring, and an AI Marketplace. To learn more, visit www.openorigins.com.
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