How it works
A screenshotnobody can edit.
A screenshot you take yourself is worth what the person looking at it thinks of you. One taken by this site has a fingerprint, a time, and a Solana transaction that anybody can check without trusting you or us. That is the whole product.
What happens to a link
A browser we run opens it
Not your browser: ours, on a server, with nobody logged in. It loads the address, waits for the page to settle, and takes a full-page picture of what it was served.
The picture gets a fingerprint
SHA-256 of the picture’s bytes: sixty-four characters that change if one pixel changes. The fingerprint, the address and the exact time are written down together.
It goes on Solana
A hash of those three facts is written into a Solana mainnet transaction. The network stamps it with its own block time, and from then on the date does not depend on this site existing.
How anyone checks it
- Download the picture from its page and hash it with SHA-256. It must match the fingerprint printed there.
- Rebuild the four-line statement the page shows (the format) and hash that. It must match the statement hash.
- Open the Solana transaction linked from the page in any block explorer. Its memo carries that hash, and the network’s block time says when it was written.
No step needs this site. If we vanished tomorrow, a copy of the picture and the transaction signature would still prove the same thing.
Free, or A$9
A free copy is public. The post or page goes on the record here for anyone to see, its words go into a Solana transaction, and it becomes a coin. This site photographs it and goes back every 6 hours to ask whether it is still up; after 2 refusals an hour or more apart it is listed as gone, with the copy. Good for something you want the world to remember.
A screenshot on the blockchain costs A$9 and is yours. It goes into your vault, private until you choose to share the link, and its fingerprint is written into a Solana mainnet transaction. Good for a dispute, a correction that is about to happen quietly, or anything where the other side controls the website. What you get, in full →
What a coin is
Every screenshot here can be a coin on Solana: a token named after the words, with the picture on its page. Anyone with a wallet can buy or sell it; the price rises as more is bought. When enough has been bought, or when one person buys the rest in one go, the pot moves to a Raydium pool and the coin trades there like any other Solana token. Whoever made the coin, and whoever wrote the post, each earn a share of every trade.
For now coins are on a Solana test network, which pays out in test SOL rather than money. The page of every coin says which network it is on. The curve, the fees and graduation, with the real numbers →
What it is not
A screenshot is evidence of what an address served, at that moment, to a browser we run. It is not proof that the page was telling the truth, not proof of who wrote it, and not a notarised document. Pages behind a login or a paywall serve our browser something different from what they serve you. If something turns on it, show it to a solicitor. The terms say the same thing at greater length.