Since the launch of the mainnet, Story has been paving the way for a grander goal. Today, we officially embark on a new chapter: building an infrastructure layer dedicated to unlocking the full value potential of IP, focusing on the currently most valuable yet often overlooked area—real-world data relied upon by AI.

The Starting Point

The launch of the mainnet marks the beginning of Story's first chapter. Over the past few months, we have been working hard to lay the groundwork for the next phase. This update will initiate a series of significant upgrades, and in the coming weeks, you will witness how this vision gradually comes to fruition.

Story was born to address a world where the pace of change far exceeds traditional contracts, laws, and intellectual property frameworks. We envision it as the intelligent layer of the internet, aimed at fundamentally revolutionizing the management, pricing, and circulation of IP.

In the first chapter, Story achieved several key milestones:

• Developed a Layer 1 blockchain specifically designed for intellectual property, equipped with a fully functional IP native protocol, supporting the on-chain confirmation of hundreds of thousands of IPs;

• Promoted the tokenization of globally recognized IP assets: IPs of music superstars like Justin Bieber, BLACKPINK, and BTS have been brought on-chain through Aria, and IPs of international brands like Crocs and Adidas have been realized through Ablo;

• Collaborated with Stability AI to develop AI applications, embedding contribution tracking mechanisms to ensure fair revenue distribution for all IP participants;

• Over $100 million in funds have been bridged across chains through the protocol;

• Attracted millions of creators to platforms like Magma, with the ecosystem continuing to thrive.

Today, Story has transformed from a vision into a true underlying infrastructure supporting scalable IP assets.

Unlocking Exclusive Value for AI

Recently, more and more leaders in the AI industry have approached us, stating that they need data assets with IP licensing, verifiable sources, clear permissions, and revenue distribution mechanisms, which can automatically update and remain effective as data is re-created, reused, or integrated into AI processes (especially robotic applications).

This is where Story's unique advantage lies: as the world's only blockchain designed for "programmable intellectual property," it enables real-time tracking, intelligent licensing, and global monetization of IP. Traditional blockchains can only represent static "ownership," while Story supports dynamic, programmable licensing terms.

Through Story, you can:

• Achieve programmatic licensing of data with on-chain executable logic;

• Complete data provenance and revenue splitting in complex AI workflows;

• Automatically distribute revenue to multiple parties within a complete data supply chain, including data collectors, annotators, and privacy-preserving synthetic data creators;

• Build a bridge between legal enforceability and on-chain primitives to achieve global IP compliance governance;

• Register and tokenize both traditional and non-traditional IP, including real-world data assets.

This means that Story unlocks unprecedented capabilities: transforming data into registered IP assets, tracking all derivative usage paths, and fairly distributing revenue to every participant—from the original data creator to the synthetic data developer.

This clarifies the core mission of Story's new chapter: to address the most critical bottleneck in AI development—the structured circulation and value capture of trustworthy data.

The Key to the Next Phase of AI: Confirmed Real-World Data

The new round of AI competition has shifted to the battle for "usable, legal, and safe" real-world data. This competition will determine the development landscape of the next generation of physical AI models (such as robotics, medical AI, etc.). As Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth stated, relying solely on online media content will never train an AI that understands intuitive judgments like "the friction and material deformation when picking up a coffee cup." NVIDIA has also pointed out that the collection of real-world data is the true bottleneck in AI development. In other words, data has become the new battleground and core resource in AI competition.

At the same time, computing power, energy, and AI models are gradually being commoditized, and the only remaining scarce asset is highly specialized, hard-to-scrape real-world data. This data—such as first-person videos of humans performing complex tasks—is the key raw material for training foundational models for robots, yet it has long been trapped in data silos due to outdated licensing models and lack of incentives, making it difficult to share and monetize.

Currently, traditional IP frameworks are unable to cope with a world producing billions of pieces of content daily. The result is that this $70 trillion-valued IP market is characterized by insufficient liquidity, undervalued assets, and a lack of modern infrastructure support.

Story's AI Native IP Infrastructure: Beyond Media, Serving Real-World Data

This is precisely the mission of Story: to unlock and scale this $70 trillion intellectual property market for AI, particularly in the fastest-growing yet most undervalued area—real-world data.

"Real-world data" refers to high-value content generated by various sensors (such as cameras, microphones, LiDAR, radar, etc.) that records the unique state of the physical world at specific times and locations.

For example:

• A driver's dashcam captures a cyclist suddenly appearing in dense fog—this becomes a valuable training sample for computer vision;

• Data annotators add high-quality labels (such as bounding boxes, metadata, etc.) to it;

• Contributors (even AI agents with crypto wallets) generate synthetic versions under different weather conditions based on that scenario. These three stages each constitute independent IP contributions that collectively support the training of new AI models.
  The contributions of these three are valuable intellectual property and an indispensable part of training AI models.

The question arises: how to define ownership? How to distribute revenue?

On Story, every contributor (whether human or AI agent) can:

• Register data assets;

• Embed custom licensing and revenue distribution logic;

• Automatically receive real-time revenue sharing as data is annotated, synthesized, or trained.

More importantly, Story is the only on-chain platform capable of fully tracking this entire process, ensuring real-time confirmation and legal monetization of data/IP assets in the AI era. In today's rapidly developing AI landscape and explosive content growth, Story has not "transformed," but steadfastly fulfills its established mission: to become the hub for licensing, exchanging, and monetizing high-value data and IP in an AI-native society.

New Chapter: Story Chapter 2

We have named this phase "Chapter 2," with the core mission of fully unlocking the value of IP and data in the AI era.

This phase focuses on three mutually supportive pillars:

• Physical AI Model Data Layer: Story will become the infrastructure for high-value real-world training data in the AI field that cannot be scraped, coordinating data supply and demand through the DePIN network and supporting systems to provide compliant and secure data flows for AI models.

From robots that organize rooms to smart cars that drive steadily in rain and fog, to voice assistants that understand multilingual accents, we have delivered critical task datasets to global enterprises and will comprehensively showcase this capability through upcoming projects.

• Global IP On-Chain: Story will expand the tokenization of IP beyond music and fashion to cover sports, DeSci (decentralized science), and other untapped trillion-dollar markets.

By activating liquidity in the global IP market, we will create a new paradigm for IP asset investment, trading, and ecosystem building through the IPRWA model.

• Innovating Traditional Licensing Models: In collaboration with partners who have served top brands like LVMH and Lucasfilm, Story will help global brands embrace rather than resist the cultural value of user-generated content (UGC).

For example: legally capturing viral memes and derivative content; monetizing unexpectedly popular UGC trends; transforming unpredictable cultural phenomena into licenseable IP assets.

Behind these three pillars is a unified and powerful mainline: Story is systematically unlocking those previously "unreachable" values—whether scarce data, global IP portfolios, or sudden cultural phenomena.

In every scenario, Story transforms these assets into real, tradable economic opportunities through scalable licensing mechanisms, on-chain enforcement, and monetization capabilities, as well as IP programmability.

The Next Generation of the IP Economy

We are moving towards a future where all intellectual property, from AI training data to viral cultural content, will achieve transparent licensing, clear ownership, and safe, controllable free circulation and value realization.

Story will become the infrastructure supporting this new IP economy. This vision will not only reshape the industry landscape but also empower creators, giving rise to new innovation and investment models.

Join Us in Reshaping the Future of Intellectual Property

The core strength of Story comes from our diverse community—builders, developers, enterprises, and investors collectively shaping the future of intellectual property. We adhere to the principle of value sharing, continuously listening to feedback, fostering open collaboration, and driving sustainable growth of the ecosystem.

This vision requires more companions. We sincerely invite creators, enterprises, and pioneers from around the world to join us in building the IP licensing infrastructure for the AI era.

In this era of explosive creativity and intelligence, let us work together to redefine intellectual property.

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