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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-19

Vaelis Measures Where AI Provenance Disappears

vaelistrust.com ↗ · Developer Corner · score 82.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A provenance-verification API that validates C2PA content credentials, scores trust, and generates signed EU AI Act Article 50 evidence files.

Why it surfaced

Vaelis demonstrates its mechanism with a test image: even a pixel-identical PNG re-save reportedly drops the C2PA manifest, while JPEG recompression, resizing, and metadata stripping leave no provenance signals. The site turns that failure into a measurable workflow, with hashing, signed evidence, and a live API rather than a vague promise of compliance.

The Song Resumes After the Story

August 19’s newborn domains include a Hawaiʻi road-trip radio that resumes each song after a GPS-triggered story, an offline Chattanooga recovery map, a 100 KiB operating system running Doom, and an archive of 169,588 Discord roleplay messages.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-19 Domain Arrivals issue.