I co-created Tantamount Labs with intention of building solutions that make what we have today that much better. It was inspired by the on chain era and giving artists, creators, and technologists more tools to do what they do best on chain.
I also have a patent on this that you can read more about here.
Tantamount Labs is a community created for Web3 artists, brands, and creatives. Project Origin is Tantamount Lab's first open source project and enables NFT artists to digitally and cryptographically sign their art work on-chain. It leverages cryptography and steganography to securely sign and preserve the artwork. Project Origin can also be adapted to further link physical and digital goods.
Tantamount labs projects are DAO governed and the future will be determined by those that use the projects.
steganography (stego) is composed of the greek words <covered> and <writing>. different than encryption it allows you to encrypt a message that makes it unreadable if you do not have the proper key to decipher it, hiding a message of value.
today, and in our implementation, we use digital stego across transparent layers such as images and protocols to store secrets about the origin of nfts without modifying with the original artwork visually.
stego origins trace back to ancient greece and originated in a book disguised to be about magic :). this original book was never printed but drafts of the text circulated and were eventually published in 1606.
since then, this has been a way used by many throughout history to deliver messages safely.
we chose stego to create nfts that can deliver their own message about their origin and their creator. they can tell the truth. they can tell their story. everything we put on chain is making history, and our history should be what is true. origins matter as does where we are going, now and in the future.