Mr. Karl Kottmeier reports

HYDAWAY DIGITAL'S REALITYCHECK LAUNCHES LIVENESS DETECTION FEATURE FOR REAL-TIME IDENTITY VERIFICATION

Hydaway Digital Corp. has launched a new liveness detection feature within the RealityChek platform, now available to enterprise clients through the company's detection suite. The liveness checker enables real-time verification of whether a person present in a video stream or submission is a live, authentic human being -- or an AI-generated (artificial intelligence) deepfake, synthetic avatar or prerecorded replay attack.

The launch of liveness detection marks RealityChek's expansion beyond static content verification and into real-time identity security -- one of the fastest-growing challenges in digital fraud prevention. As AI-generated faces, voice clones and synthetic video become increasingly indistinguishable from genuine human interactions, liveness verification has become a critical requirement across regulated industries including financial services, health care, legal and government.

The RealityChek liveness checker analyzes multiple behavioural, biometric and forensic signals simultaneously to determine whether a submitted video or real-time stream represents a live person. The system is designed to detect a wide range of presentation attacks, including deepfake video injections, prerecorded replay attacks, synthetic avatar impersonation and AI face-swap manipulations -- all of which are increasingly being used to bypass traditional identity verification systems.

The feature is immediately available to enterprise clients with a RealityChek enterprise account, and is accessible through the platform's existing API and detection interface. Integration is designed to be lightweight and composable, allowing enterprises to embed liveness verification directly into onboarding, authentication and compliance workflows without significant infrastructure changes.

Karl Kottmeier, chief executive officer of Hydaway, stated: "Identity fraud is evolving faster than traditional verification systems can keep up with. Deepfakes that could fool human reviewers a year ago can now be generated in seconds by anyone with a laptop. Our liveness checker is built to stay ahead of that curve -- it's not just checking for a heartbeat, it's performing a deep forensic analysis of what it means to be genuinely, verifiably human in a digital interaction. We're proud to bring this capability to our enterprise clients today."

The RealityChek technical team commented: "Building a liveness detection system that performs reliably against modern attack vectors is one of the hardest problems in the identity verification space. We've designed our liveness checker to operate on a multisignal approach -- no single indicator can be fooled without triggering others. The result is a system that is robust against the most sophisticated presentation attacks we've seen in testing and that we're confident will hold up in real-world enterprise environments."

About Hydaway Digital Corp.

The company is a North Vancouver-based AI infrastructure and compute services company. The company operates a GPU (graphics processing unit) rental platform providing bare-metal compute capacity for AI training, inference and high performance workloads. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, 100098940 Ontario Inc. (RealityChek), Hydaway also offers a multimodal AI detection and content verification platform powered by blockchain-anchored authentication. Hydaway is focused on expanding access to scalable, cost-effective compute power and building the infrastructure to support the next generation of AI applications.

About RealityChek

RealityChek is an enterprise-grade AI detection and content verification platform operated through 100098940 Ontario, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hydaway Digital. The platform offers multimodal detection across image, video, audio and text content, along with identity verification and liveness detection capabilities. RealityChek's reality engine aggregates dozens of tuned AI models to deliver superior detection accuracy across all content modalities.

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