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Trust Identity Protocol | Glossary

Verifiable Assets

A Verifiable Asset is any piece of digital content that carries a CTID (Content TIP ID): a permanent, signed public record of who made it, when, how it was made, and a fingerprint that shows whether it has changed since.

The name for everything the Trust Identity Protocol (TIP) produces: articles, images, audio, video, documents, datasets and code that anyone can check for themselves.

What a Verifiable Asset is

What is a Verifiable Asset?

A Verifiable Asset is any piece of digital content that carries a CTID (Content TIP ID): a permanent, signed public record of who made it, when, how it was made, and a fingerprint that shows whether it has changed since. The term comes from the Trust Identity Protocol (TIP), the open standard published by The AI Lab. Any article, image, audio file, video, document, dataset or piece of code becomes a Verifiable Asset the moment a verified person signs it and it receives a CTID.

What is a CTID?

A CTID, or Content TIP ID, is the record that turns content into a Verifiable Asset. It holds four things: the author's verified TIP-ID, the moment of publication, an origin label (Original Human, AI-Assisted, AI-Generated or Mixed), and a perceptual fingerprint that recognises copies, edits and near-duplicates. The record is signed with ML-DSA-65, the post-quantum signature standard published by NIST as FIPS 204.

What kinds of content can be Verifiable Assets?

Any unit of digital content: articles and posts, photographs and illustrations, audio and music, video, documents and reports, datasets, and source code. The content is normalised before it is fingerprinted, so ordinary platform changes such as re-encoding do not make it look like a different piece of work.

How is a Verifiable Asset different from a certified AI asset?

They answer different questions. A Verifiable Asset is content, and its CTID proves who made it and whether it changed. A certified AI asset is an AI system, such as a model, an agent or a dataset, that has passed an independent audit under the Global Seal of Trust. Content proves its origin through a CTID; AI systems earn trust through certification.

Making one

How do I turn my content into a Verifiable Asset?

Get a free TIP-ID at vp.theailab.org by verifying once with a government ID. Then sign your work: with the TIP browser extension on the platforms it supports, with the TIP WordPress plugin for your own site, or by registering a file directly on the Verification Portal. Each signed piece receives its own CTID and becomes a Verifiable Asset.

Does it cost anything?

Signing your own work is free for individual people, nonprofits, educators, governments and journalists, and checking a Verifiable Asset is free for everyone. Businesses above the free threshold use TIP under a commercial licence; the tiers are published at theailab.org/tip-license.

Does making a Verifiable Asset change my file?

No. The CTID record is kept on the TIP network, not written into the file. Your photo, song or document stays exactly as you made it. Because the record does not live in the file's metadata, stripping that metadata does not remove the record.

Checking one

How do I check a Verifiable Asset?

Open its CTID link, or paste the CTID, the creator's TIP-ID or a findtip.org link into vp.theailab.org/verify-record. The answer comes from the public registry: who signed it, how it was made, and whether it has changed. Where the record includes file fingerprints, you can drop in the original file and its bytes are checked on your own device; the file is not uploaded. No account is needed to check.

Who can check a Verifiable Asset?

Anyone: a reader, an editor, a platform, a court, a regulator or a journalist. Checking needs no account, no payment and no permission from the creator, which is the point. Proof that only its owner can show is not proof.

The hard questions

Does a Verifiable Asset prove the content is true?

No. It proves who made the content, when, how it was made and whether it has changed since. A verified person can still sign something mistaken. What changes is accountability: the claim now has a real, identified author standing behind it, and anyone can see exactly who that is.

Does it stop people copying my work or training AI on it?

No. Nothing published openly can be made impossible to copy. What a Verifiable Asset gives you is proof: a signed, timestamped record that you made the work first, and a fingerprint that recognises copies and near-duplicates wherever they appear. That is what you bring to a platform, a publisher, a licensee or a court.

Is a Verifiable Asset an NFT or a crypto token?

No. There is no token, no coin and nothing to buy, sell or trade. A Verifiable Asset is ordinary content with a public provenance record. The record is signed and kept on the TIP network so that no single company can alter or delete it.

Make your first Verifiable Asset

Verify once, then sign your work. Signing is free for individual people, nonprofits, educators, governments and journalists, and checking is free for everyone.

Read the standard: Trust Identity Protocol. Certifying AI systems rather than content? See the Global Seal of Trust.