Civic Trust Layer for Synthetic Media

"Civic Trust Layer for Synthetic Media" is a live Research-to-Reality opportunity, an explicit bridge between work being done in research environments and the institutions that would have to adopt, fund, or implement it for the work to actually change anything in the world.

The challenge: An open provenance and attestation protocol adopted across major distribution platforms, built so legitimacy accrues to attestation, not detection. Futurecraft is convening the specific combination of stakeholders required, Civic technologist, Platform engineer, Journalism institution, Cryptographer, under conditions of trust, with MIRA maintaining continuity between sessions and surfacing adjacent work that strengthens the case.

Estimated funding sits at $2–3M · 18 months, on a 12 months to pilot; 18 months to multi-platform deployment arc. Policy implications: Provides regulators a market-compatible alternative to mandated content moderation, anchoring policy in identity and provenance rather than censorship. Progress is measured against concrete, falsifiable outcomes, not activity, so the institution underwriting the work can see whether it is on track.