Gate.io AMA with Numbers Protocol-Ensure Provenance for All Digital Media Created by Humans & AI

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**<font size=4>Time: Nov 15th, 2021, 13:00 UTC
[Gate.io](https://www.gate.io "Gate.io") hosted an AMA (Ask-Me-Anything) session with Sofia Yan, Co-founder & CGO of Numbers Protocol in the [Gate.io Exchange Community](https://t.me/gateio "Gate.io Exchange Community").
Official Website: https://www.numbersprotocol.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/numbersprotocol
Follow Numbers Protocol on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/numbersprotocol "Twitter") and [Telegram](https://t.me/numbersprotocol "Telegram")
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**Sofia Yan — Co-founder & CGO of Numbers Protocol**
## Q&A from Gate.io
### Q1: So first let’s get to know you and your project a bit more! Can you start by introducing yourself and the team to our community?
**Sofia**: For sure!

We're a small but strong team.

I’m the Co-founder & Chief Growth Officer of Numbers, have 8+ experience in business development and marketing.

Before joining Numbers, I worked for an AI startup and an intellectual property valuation firm as a sales and the head of business development.

I love new challenges and embrace new technologies and firmly believe that technology should be used to bring good to society.

Tammy, our founder and Chief Product Officer, is a data scientist and a particle physics Ph.D. graduate from Manchester University.

Her thesis was about looking for the Higgs Boson from massive data generated from hadron collider. Before founding Numbers, she worked for Canonical, Viscovery, and DT42 as a software engineer, tech lead, AI developer, CEO, and founder. She is an animal lover and has strong faith in data freedom.

Bofu, our founder and  Chief Technology Officer,  is a software engineer and architect who has 15+ years of experience in data engineering, embedded systems, AI, and IoT.

He is an Arm innovator, the top-five open-source developer of Taiwan 2017, and the consultant and opinion leader of blockchain and data policy in Taiwan.

He is also the architect and developer of BerryNet and Mediant open-source projects. He has strong faith in FLOSS, internet freedom and is very active in the open-source community.

Ethan, our global developer community manager, does many things for us here at Numbers. Having received his Masters in Computer Science from Georgia Tech University, he is a member of our development team and has a good understanding of our technology and products.

He also has extensive experience growing communities having served as a social media for Jeremey Lin’s inaugural Dota2 esports team in 2016. He looks forward to interacting with our community and our project.

Beyond that, the rest of the team split between excellent backend, front-end engineers, and a bit of marketing.

### Q2: How about your project? Can you tell us about the Numbers Protocol and what are you trying to achieve?
**Sofia**: Numbers Protocol is a startup based in Taiwan, with the vision of creating a decentralized photo network for Web3.0.

Digital Media is a BIG part of our daily lives. We consume it constantly because of the entertainment it provides and the limitless ways it can inform us.

However, digital media as it is on the current internet has problems. Untraceable, unverifiable, easily copied, and manipulated, today’s digital content has no protection, no trust, and no freedom.

2.5M unlicensed images are stolen every day amounting to 600B in damages daily. Rampant misinformation makes it impossible to tell what is true or untrue. Big tech manipulates access to information.

These are BIG problems and they affect our society. That’s the main problem we’re aiming to solve.
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While the whole world has little trust in digital media at an all-time low, Numbers Protocol aims to bring integrity and authenticity to the digital content space by creating a decentralized photo network where assets are both traceable and verifiable through its innovative Capture, Seal, Trace process.

### Q3: Do you have a working product? What features does it have? What can we do with it?
**Sofia**:  Yes, we have a couple of products that have already launched for a while.

Our solution does not just stay on a protocol level. We have also created a suite of tools and services to allow users to register and retrieve assets in the network. These include Capture App, Seal API, and Trace Site.

Capture App is the world’s first blockchain camera built for Web3.0, the first NFT camera, and also the first wallet for photo assets.

With Capture App, users can establish ownership and context at the moment of creation. The information is sealed on the blockchain and users can access ecosystem applications from the App without the reliance of third-party platforms.

Taking a photo with a Capture App feels the same as taking a traditional photo, however, a lot is happening behind the scenes to secure the asset. When an image is captured, Capture App utilizes the device’s hardware to collect metadata, such as signatures and identifies, to establish creator and context.

Seal API is a developer tool that helps advanced users to use Numbers Protocol easily to create, register and retrieve assets in the network.

It has a rich API set with a friendly interface for developers to create ecosystem applications.

Trace is a website for reading photo injection and onchain history. It provides a basic chronicle view of photos so that readers can easily access the birth information of photos such as who and when it was created.

Protocols and tools are only effective if used, therefore, Numbers Protocol has built native applications to help establish the foundations of the ecosystem and allow users to experience the next-generation photo network.

In the future, this photo network can grow into areas such as news, social media, and gaming with contributions from the developer community leveraging our tools and applications!

### Q4: And how about the $NUM token? What can we do with it?
**Sofia**:  NUM is the native protocol token of NUMbers Protocol.

It is primarily a utility token designed to incentivize users to create, archive, and verify content with good integrity.

The vision of Numbers Protocol is to create an ecosystem where photos (encompassing both images and videos) matter by leveraging proofs, integrity records, and data provenance to increase the credibility and legitimacy of registered photos in the network.

Participants, such as verifiers and other network operators can get rewards by providing services to increase the credibility and legitimacy of registered photos.
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$NUM tokens can also be used to pay for services running in the decentralized photo network.
Or visit our Medium to learn more!

### Q5: What are the advantages of the Numbers Protocol compared to most projects currently on the market?
**Sofia**:  The ‘Right Click & Save’ phenomenon is a big issue in the current photo communities. Photos in the Numbers Protocol network cannot be acquired in this fashion.

As an example, CaptureClub is a native NFT marketplace for Numbers Protocol. Assets can only be downloaded following purchase or acquisition of license.

Additionally, all photos in the Numbers Protocol network have associated certificates of authenticity and C2PA metadata embedded into each asset. Metadata includes information such as creator, owner and other contextual information.

The embedded information makes it possible for the asset itself to be traced.

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<div>Author:** Rio Fu.**, Gate.io Community
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