We built compliance-first from launch.
In a category where the median operator does almost nothing and the leader had to be forced into compliance by a near-death event, Chatalystar shipped a cryptographic identity chain, per-upload chain-of-custody, and 24-hour responsive infrastructure on day one.
The landscape
Adult content is hosted everywhere from anonymous Telegram channels to verified mainstream subscription platforms. Here is where every meaningful tier sits — and where Chatalystar emerges. Theoretical maximum (hardware-rooted C2PA provenance) is shown as a dashed ghost above us; not yet practical at commercial scale.
How every upload is anchored
Each layer is live in production and labeled with what it does and what it prevents. Scroll to reveal the chain in build order — identity binding → cryptographic binding → upload-time moderation → responsive infrastructure.
- Identity binding✓ Live
Veriff identity verification (21+)
Every Star completes third-party government-ID verification with biometric liveness before publishing.
Prevents: Anonymous accounts, underage creators, stolen identities.
- Identity binding✓ Live
Wallet binding (EIP-712)
Veriff session hash, wallet address, and Creator Agreement version are signed into a typed-data attestation.
Prevents: Identity-spoofed accounts, wallet hijacks producing content under another creator's identity.
- Identity binding✓ Live
Vault PIN (out-of-band)
An additional second factor required to enter the upload vault, separate from wallet keys.
Prevents: Stolen-device uploads, key compromise leading to direct vault access.
- Cryptographic binding✓ Live
Per-session signed attestation
Each vault session emits a fresh EIP-712 attestation binding wallet → identity → agreement version → session ID.
Prevents: Replay attacks, session hijacking, post-hoc claims that 'someone else uploaded that.'
- Cryptographic binding✓ Live
Per-upload binding
Every uploaded asset embeds a signed reference to the active session attestation at the moment of upload.
Prevents: Bulk uploads with no per-asset accountability; orphaned content with no identity trail.
- Cryptographic binding✓ Live
HMAC chain of custody
Each upload row is HMAC-linked to the previous row in the creator's history; tampering breaks the chain.
Prevents: Silent edits to history; selective deletion of incriminating uploads while keeping the rest intact.
- Upload-time moderation✓ Live
Container & EXIF inspection
Image and video metadata is extracted, normalized, and inspected. Suspicious tooling, missing capture timestamps, or embedded GPS soft-flag.
Prevents: Re-uploaded scraped content, undisclosed AI-generated material.
- Upload-time moderation✓ Live
Sightengine NSFW & minor screening
Two-tier automated scanning of every upload; minor-likelihood matches are hard-blocked and queued for human review.
Prevents: CSAM, even at upload-time before any view occurs.
- Upload-time moderation✓ Live
Public mission, banned-niches, 2257
Plain-English public policy pages stating creator/member age floors, banned content, and 2257 records custodian.
Prevents: Plausible-deniability defenses; the platform's standards are public, dated, and auditable.
- Responsive infrastructure✓ Live
Triage queue + 24-hour SLA
Reports route to a moderation queue with severity-based routing; acknowledgement under 24 hours, action target under 24 hours for severity-1 cases.
Prevents: Stale reports, content lingering for days while a person tries to get it removed.
- Responsive infrastructure✓ Live
NCMEC + IWF + StopNCII integration
Hash-matching against industry CSAM and NCII hash lists; confirmed matches are reported to NCMEC under 18 USC § 2258A.
Prevents: Re-circulation of known harm material; failure to report under federal mandate.
- Responsive infrastructure✓ Live
Quarterly transparency reports
Anonymized quarterly stats on removal requests received, response times, action rates, appeal outcomes, NCMEC reports filed.
Prevents: Opaque moderation; regulators / press / partners cannot independently audit posture.
- Responsive infrastructure✓ Live
Law enforcement liaison
Dedicated le@chatalystar.com inbox for valid legal process; preservation requests honored; subpoena response under SLA.
Prevents: Investigators stuck behind a contact form; preservation requests dropping on the floor.
How we compare
Composite percentile scores across identity binding, per-upload accountability, response SLA, NCMEC integration, and transparency. Methodology is documented in the white paper.
Where every platform sits
Composite score: identity binding · per-upload accountability · response SLA · NCMEC integration · transparency
Scores are Chatalystar's own composite assessment based on each platform's published policies and observable behavior at content-upload, takedown, and reporting moments. Methodology in the white paper.
Standards we meet — every row live at launch
Tech Coalition principles, NCMEC operational requirements, EU DSA articles (including Article 34 risk assessment), UK Online Safety Act duties, US state age-verification laws, and 18 USC § 2257 / § 2257A.
| Standard / framework | Requirement | Live Chatalystar implementation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Tech Coalition (Voluntary Principles) /banned-content · /trust/whitepaper | Adopt safety-by-design and transparency for child sexual exploitation | Sightengine minor screening hard-blocks at upload; quarterly transparency reports; public banned-content policy | Live |
NCMEC (18 USC § 2258A) /trust#contact · le@chatalystar.com | Mandatory reporting of apparent CSAM to NCMEC CyberTipline | Automated CyberTipline submission for confirmed matches; preservation per § 2258A(h); LE liaison inbox | Live |
EU DSA Article 14 /trust/report | Notice-and-action mechanism with statement of reasons | Public /trust/report form; tracking reference; SOR returned to reporter and content owner | Live |
EU DSA Article 16-17 /community-guidelines | Trusted-flagger priority + restriction reasoning | Trusted-flagger lane in triage queue; restrictions accompanied by published policy citation | Live |
EU DSA Article 24 (transparency) /trust#transparency | Annual transparency report with quantitative moderation data | Quarterly cadence (exceeds annual minimum); per-category counts; appeal outcomes; mean response time | Live |
EU DSA Article 34 (risk assessment) /trust/whitepaper | Annual systemic-risk assessment for VLOPs (and voluntary for smaller platforms) | Risk register published with /trust whitepaper Annex C; reviewed and re-published quarterly | Live |
UK Online Safety Act (Illegal Content Duty) /trust/report | Proactive measures to prevent illegal content; risk assessment; reporting routes | Pre-publication minor screening; banned-content public list; trust@/report@ inboxes; 24h SLA | Live |
UK Online Safety Act (Children's Safety Duty) /why-21 · /community-guidelines | Highly effective age assurance for adult content | Veriff government-ID + biometric liveness for creators; age-confirmed gate at member NSFW unlock | Live |
California AB 1394 / SB 1381 (NCII) /trust#contact | Reasonable steps to remove non-consensual intimate imagery within 48 hours of report | Stop NCII hash integration; severity-1 routing; 24-hour action target (exceeds 48h floor) | Live |
18 USC § 2257 / § 2257A /2257 | Records-keeping for performers in sexually explicit content | Veriff verification records retained; per-upload performer-binding via session attestation; named custodian | Live |
Texas SB 12 / Utah SB 287 / Louisiana HB 142 (state age-verification) /age-verification | Reasonable age-verification before adult content access in regulated states | State-aware geolocation gate routes to commercial age verification flow before NSFW exposure | Live |
Stop NCII (operational integration) /trust/whitepaper Annex B | Hash-match against industry NCII database before publication | Hash-check on upload; matches hard-blocked and routed to dedicated NCII queue | Live |
IWF hash list (CSAM) /trust/whitepaper Annex B | Operational use of IWF hash list for known-CSAM blocking | IWF list integrated alongside Sightengine; matches hard-blocked + NCMEC report | Live |
Live transparency data
Anonymized aggregates pulled from the responsive-infrastructure pipeline. Most-recent complete quarter, refreshed automatically at quarter close.
Direct lines
Each inbox routes to the appropriate ops queue with the SLA shown. If you are not sure where to send something, use trust@chatalystar.com — we will route it. To submit a removal report through a structured form, use /trust/report.
report@chatalystar.comurgenttrust@chatalystar.comstandardle@chatalystar.comurgentdmca@chatalystar.comstandard2257@chatalystar.cominfosupport@chatalystar.comstandardlegal@chatalystar.cominfoThe white paper
v1.0 · April 2026Eight-page technical document covering problem framing, the full deployed architecture (Phase 1 + Phase 2), threat model, mapping to standards, verification approach, risk register, and the future roadmap.
- · Problem framing & scope
- · Identity binding chain (Phase 1)
- · Responsive infrastructure (Phase 2)
- · Threat model & abuse cases
- · Standards mapping (DSA · OSA · § 2257)
- · Verification approach & methodology
- · Annex A — cryptographic primitives
- · Annex B — hash-list integrations
- · Annex C — Article 34 risk register
- · Annex D — methodology for comparison scores
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