Technical Documentation

Integration,
Verification &
Trust Infrastructure

Everything your engineering team needs to integrate BlockContentSeal — and everything about how we keep certificates tamper-proof, independently verifiable, and permanent.

Integrations

Integrate with
any platform.

BlockContentSeal is available via a clean REST API. If your platform can make an HTTP request at publish time, it can have content provenance in production today.

REST API
Available
Seal an article — 3 lines in your publish handler
# POST /v1/seal
curl https://api.blockcontentseal.com/v1/seal \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url":       "https://yourpublication.com/article/slug",
    "author":    "author-id-or-byline",
    "content":   "full article text or canonical HTML",
    "published": "2025-06-16T09:31:00Z"
  }'

# Response
{
  "certificate_id": "BCS-2025-0047291",
  "content_hash":   "sha256:a7f3c91e4b2d8f…",
  "tx_hash":        "0x4a3f…c91b",
  "block":          19847203,
  "sealed_at":      "2025-06-16T09:31:02Z",
  "verify_url":     "https://blockcontentseal.com/verify/BCS-2025-0047291"
}
Live Verification

See it working. Right now.

Paste any URL from a BlockContentSeal-protected publisher. We'll return its authenticity status, original certificate, and full chain of proof in under a second.

Verified · Authentic
Publisher
The Tribune
Author
M. Hartmann
Sealed
2025-06-15 09:31:02 UTC
Content integrity
✓ Unchanged since sealing
Certificate Hash
sha256:a7f3c91e4b2d8f06e5b3c2a9d1f7e4b8c3d6a0f2e8b5c1d4a9f3e7b2c6d0a5e1f4
Article verification is always free and requires no account. Protect your own content →
Infrastructure-Grade Trust

Built to be trusted
by the institutions that matter.

Independently Verifiable

Certificates are anchored on public blockchains. Anyone can verify them without involving BlockContentSeal — including after we're gone. Not even we can alter a sealed record.

Read the architecture →
Cryptographically Sealed

SHA-256 content hashing means any alteration — even a single character — invalidates the certificate and flags the content immediately. Mathematical certainty, not policy.

View technical details →
Open Standards (C2PA)

BlockContentSeal is built on and compatible with C2PA — the non-profit Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity. No proprietary lock-in. The emerging industry standard.

C2PA compatibility →
Use Cases

Built for how real
newsrooms operate.

When seconds matter, proof matters more.

Breaking news is when content gets copied, misquoted, and replicated fastest. BlockContentSeal creates an unimpeachable timestamp at publish — giving you a permanent record of exactly what you reported, and when, before anyone else could have altered the narrative.

When a story goes viral and variants start circulating, your original is provably yours.

Protect your newsroom →
2.3s
Average time from publish to sealed certificate. Zero action required from your editorial team.

Your story, provably original — across every platform.

Wire content is republished dozens of times before end-of-day. BlockContentSeal gives the originating outlet a permanent proof-of-origin that travels with the content — making it unambiguous which publication created the story and when.

See integration →
400+
Average number of republications a major wire story receives. Each one traceable to your original.

Distinguish human journalism from synthetic replicas.

AI can generate articles that look like yours. It cannot generate a certificate that was anchored on-chain before the AI existed. BlockContentSeal's provenance timestamp is the one signal AI-generated impersonators can never fake.

Start protecting content →
Increase in AI-generated content impersonating real journalists detected in 2024 vs. 2023.

Give readers one-click confidence in what they're reading.

The embeddable BCS verified badge gives readers immediate confidence — without requiring any technical knowledge. One click shows the full provenance record: who wrote it, when, and that it hasn't changed.

Add the verified badge →
3.1×
Increase in article credibility rating when readers can access a verifiable provenance record.
Get Started

Three lines of code.
Permanent provenance.

Average integration time under two hours. No blockchain knowledge required.