Deepfakes, Avatars, and Digital Identity: How Antix Plans to Bring ‘Hollywood in Your Pocket’ to the Blockchain Age
Staff Writer • 2025-04-18
With content creation costs dropping from $400,000 to $2 per minute, Roman Cyganov’s Antix is redefining ownership, creativity, and authenticity in the AI era. From Game of Thrones to Web3: A Founder’s Journey Roman Cyganov isn’t your average startup founder. A self-taught developer and digital artist, Cyganov has built AAA gaming environments and cinematic effects for franchises like Game of Thrones, FIFA, and PUBG. He’s collaborated with heavyweights like Warner Bros., Tencent, and HBO, and led his first startup to a successful exit. Now, as the CEO and founder of Antix, he’s combining his entertainment pedigree with blockchain technology and generative AI to answer a question that’s becoming increasingly urgent in the digital age: Who owns your identity online? The Avatar Revolution: Verified, Tokenized, and Monetized Antix’s platform is at the center of a new frontier: hyper-realistic AI avatars powered by blockchain verification. In a world where deepfakes are proliferating and AI-generated media can be produced in seconds, Cyganov believes creators need a way to prove authorship, protect their likeness, and unlock new monetization models. “Right now, people are creating deepfakes without proof or verification,” Cyganov said on the Stonks Go Moon Podcast. “With Antix, you’ll be able to verify any content using your digital twin on-chain—proving it’s really you behind it.” That verification, he says, will serve as both a copyright layer and a trust signal for the digital economy. Slashing Costs, Scaling Creativity One of Antix’s most staggering claims? The cost of premium content creation has dropped from $400,000 to just $2 per minute thanks to Antix’s in-house generative pipeline. “We used to spend hundreds of thousands per minute creating cinematic-quality content,” Cyganov explained. “Now, with AI and the right creative inputs, we can do it for under $2—and it still looks studio-grade.” This cost collapse isn’t just a technical achievement—it’s a democratization moment. Creators, influencers, and small businesses can now produce branded, Hollywood-level content without massive budgets or studio deals. The Blockchain Identity Layer: Renting Your Face, On Your Terms Perhaps the most novel innovation is Antix’s "Digital Twin Leasing" feature. Influencers and public figures can tokenize their likeness, set usage permissions, and lease it out for brand campaigns—without being directly involved in production. Want to allow your avatar to promote a health brand, but not a gambling platform? No problem. Antix gives creators granular control over what industries and categories their digital twin can be used for. “You choose what to allow—crypto, health, education, yes. Alcohol, politics, maybe not,” says Cyganov. “You get paid rent, and you keep control.” From Web2 Reputation to Web3 Execution Cyganov credits much of Antix’s momentum to his Web2 reputation. With Antix already backed by a 250,000-strong community and 12 institutional investors, the company is preparing for a public platform launch in Q2, with wishlist signups already underway. Co-led by a former CEO of Disney CIS, the Antix team has positioned itself as a serious player in digital entertainment infrastructure, not just another avatar startup. “We trained our AI on real production expertise—camera angles, movement, cinematic tricks—so our outputs don’t look like low-value AI fluff,” says Cyganov. “They look like Netflix-level content.” The Battle for Digital Ownership Is Just Beginning In an era where identity is increasingly fluid and creativity can be copied in seconds, Antix is staking a bold claim: Digital identity belongs to individuals, not platforms. Whether it’s protecting voice actors from unauthorized AI clones or allowing creators to monetize their likeness with full transparency, Cyganov’s vision is clear: the future of media will be personal, portable, and provable. And if Antix succeeds, we may all soon have a little bit of Hollywood in our pocket—owned, controlled, and powered by us.
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