The proof that it's real.

Krest turns your iPhone into a trustworthy witness: every capture is signed by the Secure Enclave and anchored in the Bitcoin blockchain — independently verifiable, account-less, no tracking.

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Three tiers, one architecture

Device-Native Trust: Secure Element → Bitcoin. No middleman.

Verified

Photo/video straight from the camera, signed by the Secure Element at the moment of capture.

Anchored

Any file hashed and bound in time to Bitcoin — the file never leaves your device.

Fortress

Multi-signature groups with several hardware Secure Elements for shared proofs.

How it works

  1. CaptureImage, sensor data and timestamp are signed inside the device's Secure Element.
  2. AnchorThe hash is written into the Bitcoin blockchain within minutes via OP_RETURN.
  3. VerifyAnyone can reproduce the chain signature → Merkle → Bitcoin — without our servers.

Binary, no probabilities

Content is verified or it isn't — no confidence scores, no “probably real”. “Unverified” does not mean “fake”, only “unproven”.

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Privacy by design

No account, no tracking SDKs, no cloud sync. Krest servers never see your images and never your identity: the anchoring relay only hashes, the share relay only encrypted data. The Bitcoin anchor carries no personal data. Details in the Privacy Policy.

Open protocol

Protocol, wire format and verify algorithms are open source under the MIT license. Any third party can reproduce the full trust path — without asking us. Source on GitHub.