China Times photographers register images at the moment of capture, before any editorial process begins. Shoot, upload through the Capture SDK, receive a NID. The C2PA manifest is embedded in the asset. The record lands on Numbers Mainnet. At any point after publication, the provenance chain is independently verifiable. No reliance on the publication platform. No reliance on internal records that can be edited. The record was made at origin. That is what makes it auditable. EU AI Act enforcement begins in August. Newsrooms have eight weeks. This is what a compliant pipeline looks like for a newsroom that built the receipt into the workflow, not bolted it on after. x402-chinatimes.numbersproto… Receipts before deadline.

the EU spent 7 months and hundreds of experts writing the rulebook for AI content labels. their own conclusion: no single watermarking technique is reliable enough. you need layers. final code published this week. Article 50 applies 2 August, 52 days to go. a label slapped on at publish can be stripped, cropped, or screenshot away. a record made at capture survives all three. ProofSnap does the capture part. the part the watermark can't.

the EU spent 7 months and hundreds of experts writing the rulebook for AI content labels. their own conclusion: no single watermarking technique is reliable enough. you need layers. final code published this week. Article 50 applies 2 August, 52 days to go. a label slapped on at publish can be stripped, cropped, or screenshot away. a record made at capture survives all three. ProofSnap does the capture part. the part the watermark can't.