Probant Protocol is the record layer for brand rights. Anchor evidence of use, publish license terms, settle royalties in dollars, and let any counterparty verify a chain of title in one query instead of one email thread.
Fixed. No mint function after genesis. Full allocation published before any sale.
Over eight years, and claimable only by addresses with capital at risk. An idle wallet earns nothing.
Attestations on Base cost cents. The free tier is how the registry gets dense.
Upstream rights, territory, class, term, and every sublicense beneath it.
Timestamp evidence that a mark was in use, and get a receipt any counterparty can verify without asking you for a copy.
Run the licensing program itself. Terms become structured records instead of attachments, and royalties settle against sourced revenue.
Counsel, auditors, and verifiers bond capital to sign a record. A false attestation gets challenged and slashed.
Sublicense A2 runs to 2031. Its parent License A ends in 2029. Two years of rights were granted that the licensor never held.
In a data room, during diligence, priced as an indemnity. Or in litigation, priced considerably higher.
Terms are structured, so the conflict is a constraint violation the system refuses rather than a clause somebody has to notice.
Brand owners and licensors pay for the licensing product, settlement, and audit exports.
Collects fees in USDC. Routes a share to attestor yield, a share to buyback and burn, the rest to operations. Holds no customer float.
Counsel, auditors, verifiers, and originators bond tokens to sign records and earn dollars.
The mechanism, yes. Bonded assertion with a challenge window and slashing runs at scale today in optimistic oracles and staked arbitration. The application to registered brand rights, no. Nobody has done it.
The closest attempt at the general shape was the token curated registry in 2017, and it largely failed. We lead with that rather than hoping nobody checks.
Slashing deters only if somebody catches you, and protocols normally have to invent a reason for anyone to go looking. It is the acknowledged soft spot in slashing design.
Brand rights arrive with that reason pre-paid. Acquirers in diligence, licensees in disputes, and licensors who suspect underpayment already spend real money hunting for defective records. The audit incentive is external and it already exists.
There is no token sale open and no token exists yet. The SEC proposed Regulation Crypto Assets on 18 August 2026 and the comment period is still running, so no US exemption is final. We publish the full design now, run a contribution points program in the meantime, and file the day the rules land. Points convert to tokens at that point. Nothing on this site is an offer to sell a security.
Engineering with AI in the loop from the first commit is not a talking point, it is the reason the economics work. Serving an anchor costs cents and building the system did not cost a seed round, so anchoring can stay free permanently and the company never has to promise a market it has not built.
Every free anchor is a record a competitor has to re-earn from scratch. Registries compound. There is no version of this where year four is easier to displace than year one.
Probant does not claim to create or replace a trademark right. It records evidence of use and administers licensing. That boundary is what keeps general counsel in the room.
Regulation Crypto Assets carries a US nexus test that most projects now fail because they offshored years ago. We are incorporated here and pass it by existing.
Licensing directors pay in dollars. The token lives on the supply side, where the people earning upside are the ones creating the value.
Built by a brand agency working since 2013 and onchain since 2020. This is built by the party that already sits between brand owners and the systems governing their use.
Every company that goes onchain finds the same wall. Not the minting, not the chain, not the wallet. Nobody could say with certainty who owned what before any of it started.
We build that proof.
Early access to the anchor tool, the contribution points program, and the technical updates. No token offer, no price, no sale date.
Probant Protocol is a shared onchain record layer for brand rights. It lets a rights holder timestamp evidence that a mark was in use, publish structured license terms, settle royalties in USDC, and let any counterparty verify a chain of title in a single query instead of an email thread.
It runs on Base, an Ethereum layer 2. Anchoring evidence is free permanently. Probant charges for the licensing administration product built on top: structured terms, sublicense trees, royalty settlement, and audit exports.
No. A trademark right comes from use in commerce and from registration with a government office such as the USPTO or EUIPO. Probant records timestamped evidence of use and administers licensing on top of whatever rights already exist. It does not create, replace, register, or adjudicate any registration.
The practical value is evidentiary. Priority disputes, licensing diligence, and royalty audits all turn on proving what existed when, and that proof is normally reconstructed from folders of PDFs after the dispute has already started.
Nothing. Anchoring evidence of use costs zero and is free permanently, not free during a trial period. An attestation written to Base costs a few cents in network fees, which Probant absorbs.
Revenue comes from the layer above: a SaaS fee per mark under active licensing administration, plus basis points on royalty settlement. The free tier exists because a registry is only useful once it is dense, and charging for entry is the fastest way to keep it thin.
No. Rights holders and licensees transact in dollars. Settlement runs in USDC behind the interface, and no counterparty is ever required to hold, buy, or even see the PRBT network token.
The token sits on the supply side of the network, where attestors bond collateral. A licensing director paying a quarterly royalty statement never opens a wallet.
No. Only a cryptographic digest, a SHA-256 hash, and an attestation are written onchain. Document contents never leave your systems.
That design is deliberate and non negotiable. A counterparty can verify that the document you show them is the document you anchored, without ever receiving a copy of it, and without the contents becoming permanently public on a ledger nobody can edit.
No. PRBT does not exist. No contract has been deployed, no sale is open, and no allocation is available. Any contract address, presale, whitelist, or airdrop presented to you as PRBT is fraudulent.
The SEC proposed Regulation Crypto Assets on August 18, 2026 and the comment period is still running, so no United States exemption is final. Probant publishes the full token design now, runs a non transferable contribution points program in the meantime, and files when the rules land.
Base is an Ethereum layer 2 where an attestation costs cents rather than dollars, which is what makes a permanently free anchoring tier possible at all. On mainnet the same free tier would cost more per record than the product earns.
Base also inherits Ethereum security and settles there, so the record does not depend on a separate validator set. Sui and Solana are on the roadmap for later expansion and are not shipped.