About ProofChain
Infrastructure for creative ownership
The Story
I grew up in Thanjavur, a small city in Tamil Nadu. If you grow up there, cinema feels distant. You watch it, admire it, but rarely imagine yourself being part of it. Still, since childhood, I quietly carried a dream of being part of that world.
Like most people, I followed the safe path. Finished my degree, worked in India, moved to the United States to study at Northeastern University. Career, financial security, everything society expects you to build. But something always felt incomplete.
Eventually I made a decision most people avoid. I left that path and moved back to India to pursue cinema seriously.
Along the way, I met writers who had spent years on scripts but were afraid to share them. Creators who believed their ideas had been copied. Talented people who didn't know how to protect their work or prove it was theirs first.
Everywhere I went, I heard the same question:
“What if someone steals my story?”
People often say ideas are cheap. I strongly disagree.
Ideas take time. Obsession. Years of thinking. A single idea can become someone's life's work. Losing it is not trivial.
Later, while back in the United States, I became deeply interested in Bitcoin. Not just as currency, but the idea behind it. That trust can be replaced with mathematical proof. That you don't need to rely on institutions to protect what's yours.
One thought kept coming back to me:
If billions of dollars can be protected by mathematics, why can't a writer's script?
That question became ProofChain. A platform that gives creators cryptographic proof that their work existed on a specific date, anchored permanently on the Bitcoin blockchain. Not a promise. Not a certificate from a company. Mathematical proof that no one can alter or deny.
We're building this from India, for creators everywhere.
What We Stand For
Three foundational principles inspired by cypherpunk ideology.
Self-Sovereignty
Your creative work belongs to you. ProofChain does not store your script or manuscript. We generate and store only its cryptographic hash — a mathematical fingerprint that proves existence at a specific time. Your work stays with you. Always. Ownership without surrender.
Privacy
Access is permission-based. If someone wants to read your script, they must send a request. You decide whether to grant access. There is no silent visibility. Writers control distribution.
Control
Nothing is forced public. Profiles, achievements, visibility settings, identity exposure — all of it is controlled by you. You decide what is visible and what remains private. Control is not a marketing feature. It is structural.
What We're Building
The creative industry lacks structure. Ownership is informal. Discovery is inefficient. Evaluation is subjective. Writers operate in fear. Producers operate in uncertainty.
ProofChain is building infrastructure to reduce that friction. A standard layer between talent and opportunity.
Less fear. Less noise. Less guesswork. More structure. More control. More signal.
My goal is that no creator — anywhere — ever has to choose between sharing their work and protecting it.
One Platform, Every Format
Our Technology
SHA-256 Hashing
Your file is hashed locally using SHA-256 — the same algorithm that secures Bitcoin. The hash is a unique fingerprint: change one character in your file and the entire hash changes. Your file never leaves your device.
OpenTimestamps Protocol
The hash is submitted to the Bitcoin blockchain via OpenTimestamps, an open-source protocol. Multiple hashes are aggregated into a Merkle tree for efficiency, with the root anchored in a Bitcoin transaction.
Bitcoin Blockchain
The world's most secure and decentralized blockchain anchors your timestamp. With over 15 years of unbroken operation and no central authority, your timestamp is immutable and permanent.
Certified TSA (RFC 3161)
Simultaneously, your hash is submitted to a certified Time Stamping Authority following the RFC 3161 standard. The TSA returns a cryptographically signed token — institutionally recognized, independently verifiable, and generated within seconds.
Certificate Generation
A tamper-proof certificate is generated containing the SHA-256 hash, Bitcoin block confirmation, TSA token, and certificate ID. Designed to comply with Sections 63 and 86 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (BSA).