Securely store your documents and files using the industry standard ZIP format while tokenizing them as NFTs on the blockchain to provide immutable proof of ownership and authenticity.
This is a beta version. On-chain features run on Base Sepolia testnet only — no real ETH or gas fees.
NeoZip Desktop is a Mac app for the archives you work with every day: bundle files into a ZIP or NeoZip, open what you get from others, and run a quick check when you want to be sure nothing has changed. A device-held Data Wallet keeps your identity keys on your Mac — not in a cloud vault — so you can sign archives and control what is cleared for sharing or AI pipelines. When you are ready for more, add timestamps or on-chain proof.
Make new archives and open ZIP or NeoZip files you receive
Data Wallet on your device — sign archives with wallet-encrypted identity keys before you share or verify them
Check that an archive still matches what you expect, and keep a simple record you can share
PKware introduced the ZIP file format in 1989 as file archiving software for DOS-based computers. It quickly became the standard for compression and archiving — yet the format has seen few fundamental updates in more than three decades. NeoZip expands that legacy for an era where data must be not only stored, but proven trustworthy before it reaches AI pipelines, compliance audits, or partner systems.
At the center of NeoZip is the device-held Data Wallet: a cryptographic vault on your desktop that holds identity keys locally — not in a centralized cloud database. Combined with modern compression (including Zstandard), wallet-encrypted identity keys, and optional blockchain verification, NeoZip turns every archive into a signed container you can package, verify, and track with mathematical certainty.
Your EVM Data Wallet lives on the device as the root of trust for signing archives, managing keys, and controlling what leaves your machine — keeping corporate IP under your sovereignty before deliberate AI ingestion.
Wallet-encrypted identity keys bind each archive to a distinct author. Automated pipelines can confirm training data came from an authorized source — reducing poisoning and shared-password risk.
Verify integrity, issue certificates, and optionally anchor hashes on-chain via blockchain attestation or NFT tokenization — an immutable trail of what was packaged, when, and who approved it.
NeoZip also leverages advancements in computing power for more efficient compression, and integrates blockchain technology where you need it: on-chain attestation for existence proofs, or NFT tokenization on supported EVM networks for ownership and chain of custody. Together with the Data Wallet, these layers improve trust and transparency, support regulatory expectations around AI data lineage, and move archiving beyond passive file storage.
Whether you use NeoZip Desktop, the CLI, or developer kits, the goal is the same: a next-generation archiving tool that builds on ZIP's familiarity while delivering the security, provenance, and Data Wallet capabilities modern enterprises need.
Benefits of Zip File Tokenization
Transform your ZIP files into blockchain-based NFTs and unlock powerful benefits that traditional file archiving simply cannot provide. NeoZip's tokenization technology delivers enhanced security, verifiable ownership, and immutable authenticity for your most important files. Each tokenized ZIP file includes built-in blockchain timestamping and uses Zstandard compression for superior data compression ratios.
What is Blockchain Timestamping
Blockchain timestamping creates an immutable record of when your files existed by anchoring their cryptographic fingerprint to a public blockchain. NeoZip supports this through the NeoZip Token Service on EVM networks, as well as hash-anchoring workflows that tie archive integrity to decentralized ledgers.
Here's how it works: NeoZip calculates a SHA-256 hash of your ZIP file's contents (or a Merkle root over multiple files) and submits it for on-chain attestation. The result is a permanent, tamper-proof record that proves your files existed at a specific point in time — verifiable by anyone without requiring trust in NeoZip or any central authority.
Planned Development
Planned capabilities across identity, the Data Wallet, and AI-focused archive workflows.
Benefit: A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes NeoZip archive operations — compress, inspect, verify, and sign — as tools for AI assistants and agent frameworks. Planned integration lets MCP-compatible environments such as Cursor and Claude Desktop invoke NeoZip CLI and Data Wallet workflows directly, without custom glue code between agents and your archives.
Benefit: Link signed NeoZip archives to on-chain smart contracts and payment rails so ownership transfers, licensing, and access can be enforced programmatically. Planned integrations connect the Data Wallet to escrow, royalty, and micropayment workflows — enabling verifiable archive commerce without relying on opaque centralized marketplaces.
Benefit: A blockchain-based digital ID to show ownership of files archived using Zip provides immutable proof of ownership, increased security, transparency, and traceability. It can also streamline the transfer of ownership and improve regulatory compliance.
Benefit: A device-held cryptographic vault — not a cloud account — that keeps identity and signing keys on your machine. Planned extensions include scoped archive packaging for AI context, verification gates for ingestion pipelines, recipient-side encryption workflows, and tighter integration across NeoZip Desktop, CLI, and developer kits.
Benefit: Accelerated data loading and reduced storage footprints for modern AI data formats (JSONL, Parquet, tensor embeddings, and Arrow). By researching semantic and column-oriented compression techniques native to the NeoZip structure, archives can vastly outperform generic compression algorithms when handling massive, repetitive AI training datasets.
Benefit: Drastically lower ingestion costs and context-window bloat for LLMs. This feature explores packaging text data in high-density, pre-tokenized, or heavily serialized formats optimized for popular LLM tokenizers (e.g., Tiktoken, Llama). Pipelines can ingest data directly from the archive without spending unnecessary compute on front-end parsing and token overhead.
Benefit: Mathematical guarantees of data provenance for machine learning compliance. By signing data subsets directly with the NeoZip local Data Wallet, AI engineering teams can verify that incoming training data or RAG knowledge bases originate from an authorized, untampered source. This limits data poisoning risks and provides a clean audit trail for copyright and regulatory compliance.
Benefit: Native, zero-overhead data streaming into PyTorch, Hugging Face, and LangChain. Instead of performing slow, disk-heavy extraction of massive multi-gigabyte archives, NeoZip plans to support streamable, multi-threaded decompression directly into memory, allowing distributed AI training clusters to ingest shards on the fly.
Benefit: A secure and optimized distribution standard for large model weights (e.g., Safetensors, GGUF). NeoZip will extend its framework to support delta-compression for iterative model checkpoints and bundle them with cryptographic signatures to ensure weights haven't been maliciously altered during distribution.
