MUMBAI, India, June 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621051639 A) filed by Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute Of Technology, Pimpri, Pune - on April 23, 2026, for Decentral News: Blockchain-Based Credible Journalism Platform.
Inventors include Shraddha Shingne; Shubham Kushwaha; Apurva Borhade; and Swami Dongare.
The application for the patent was published on June 19, 2026, under issue no. 25/2026.
Abstract: The invention in the present disclosure relates to a decentralized news platform to offer true, open, and tamper-proof news transmission. Centralized traditional news platforms usually lead to biased reporting, censorship, and the free flow of fake news. Existing digital platforms fail to properly enable authenticity proof, author accountability, and long-term content storage. The system presented here in overcomes these limitations through the integration of blockchain technology with decentralized data storage mechanisms such as IPFS or Filecoin. User-uploaded news articles are stored on a distributed network, with a content-related hash stored on a blockchain via smart contracts to offer immutability and traceability. A reputation and verification mechanism allows other users to verify the truthfulness of the news by using either community-voting or AI-based fact-checking, thereby offering reputation scores to the contributors according to the credibility and accuracy of the submissions. The system further comprises categorization, tagging, and searching for efficient news content retrieval. Incentivization plans essentially reward those who provide confirmed news thus ensuring that reliable information of high quality is produced. By means of decentralizing the storage of content, having blockchain-based verification and incentivizing the contributors, the invention is a scalable, transparent, and secure publishing and a consumption platform for news. The resolution is an account of the most basic problems of bias, disinformation, and centralization in the current systems that have been solved, giving a safe and collaborative model for modern digital journalism.
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