XEAL

XEAL uses invisible watermarking to tie physical goods to on-chain assets. Images, audio or printed items carry a mark that the eye cannot see but which encodes a contract address and token number; a user scans with the mobile app to verify authenticity, the mark survives screenshots, compression and printing, and copies are recorded as duplicates under the same owner.

Watermarked assets mint as xNFTs, and divisible xTokens fractionalise a collection: holders share trading and licensing revenue by share, and creators can whitelist which contracts may resell. The stack combines steganography with image recognition, the watermarking technology comes from Digimarc, and deployment covers Story Protocol and ApeChain. A scan also returns the contract and the current holder.