The Starling Lab is an academic research lab innovating with the latest cryptographic methods and decentralized web protocols to meet the technical and ethical challenges of establishing trust in our most sensitive digital records.
Concept, strategy, fundraising, system architecture, design.
NGNM helped secure initial funding to kick-start the initiative. This early-phase funding consisted of a grant from Protocol Labs, which was secured against a proposal around the capture, storage, and verification of sensitive information — particularly around conflict zones, and in relation to maintaining accountability. The full grant application is online.
These tools were used in the first documented blockchain-backed war crime submission to the International Criminal Court, as documented in Rolling Stone Magazine.
