Introducing The Creator Advanced Protection Suite: Infrastructure To Secure Your On-Chain Work

Ethereum is an open platform that allows any creator to deploy a set of rules, known as a smart contract, to execute on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). There is a vast amount of untapped potential for Web3 technology that has yet to be fully explored, and as such it is considered the technology equivalent of the Wild West. Code released on the EVM is constantly exploited due to latent security bugs, user wallets are drained by malicious actors via scam sites and phishing attacks, and creator protocols are used in unexpected ways. Whether they are an artist in the creative space or a business launching a branded Web3 product, a creator’s best chance to be successful while avoiding disruption from external forces is to secure their products at the smart contract level.

The biggest shortcoming of protocols such as ERC20, ERC721, ERC1155 and many other protocols such as NFT trading smart contracts is that they were built with no mechanisms to protect themselves. An obvious example of this is that ERC721 and ERC1155 relied on Web2 exchanges to pay creator royalties, a cornerstone of many creators’ businesses. However, because no royalty enforcement mechanisms were built-in creators’ businesses were disrupted by hostile exchanges and royalties effectively went to zero with no recourse putting many projects out of business.

Limit Break has dedicated itself to building public goods that are pro-creator and pro-business to help the Web3 ecosystem thrive. To that end, Limit Break is pleased to announce the release of the Creator Advanced Protection Suite (CAPS). CAPS is a set of open-sourced, independent smart contract products that, when used properly, offer safeguards not only to token protocols but numerous other types of non-token protocols. Using CAPS, creators are able to carve out their own private on-chain ecosystem that is deployable on any EVM chain.

• Creator Token Standards offers creator-defined guardrails to the transfer function of ERC20, ERC721, and ERC1155 tokens. In its simplest form, this allows creators to decide what protocols can be used to transfer NFTs and other coins, whether it be for trading, on-chain games, or other custom use cases involving the transfer of tokens.
• Payment Processor offers the first NFT trading protocol that puts creators first over exchanges. Not only does the protocol guarantee payment of royalties in a dynamic manner, it puts the creator in control of how their collections trade. It even includes mechanisms that can align incentives between creators and exchanges, making for a more equitable relationship.
• Trusted Forwarder offers an attribution system for open on-chain protocols with the option to include protection to gate-keep Web2 applications that are permitted to interact with on-chain protocols.

Creator Token Standards, Payment Processor, and Trusted Forwarder are all independent products, but they all work together in a layered approach to bestow creators with security for their on-chain works. The relationship between these products is depicted in the diagram below.

To recap, creators can use CAPS to:

• Block all protocols from interacting with your work without permission!
• Launch coins and tokens with confidence!
• Enforce royalty payments and/or coin-related fees!
• Add application-level attribution to open, on-chain protocols!

The contracts are now live on:

• Ethereum Sepolia Testnet
• Ethereum Mainnet
• Polygon Mainnet
• Optimism Mainnet
• Arbitrum One Mainnet
• Base Mainnet
• Avalanche C-Chain Mainnet
• Binance Smart Chain (BSC) Mainnet
• Polygon zkEVM Mainnet

All CAPS infrastructure contracts are compatible with and deterministically deployable to any EVM that includes the standard CREATE2 deployer at address 0x4e59b44847b379578588920cA78FbF26c0B4956C. To request a deployment on another chain please contact blockchain@limitbreak.com.

Want to learn the specifics? The following series of posts will walk you through the technical details.

• Creator Token Standards: Building Guardrails For Your Tokens
• Payment Processor: The Best NFT Exchange Protocol For Creators
• Trusted Forwarder: An Attribution Engine With Protection Designed For On-Chain Protocols

Limit Break’s Creator Advanced Protection Suite (Creator Token Standards, Payment Processor (V1 & V2), Trusted Forwarder) and related services and protocols (collectively “Tools”) are made available on an as-is basis and Limit Break disclaims all representations and warranties, express or implied, in connection with use of these Tools. Users bear all responsibility for ensuring the proper and legal use of these Tools and should exercise best judgement and caution where appropriate when deploying them. Limit Break does not warrant, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for any product or service advertised or offered by a third party using the Tools, and will not be a party to or in any way be responsible for monitoring any transaction between users and any third-party providers of products or services deploying the Tools. Use of the Tools is subject to the licenses under which such Tools are made available in all respects.