Chapter 2: AI-Native Infrastructure Empowers the $70 Trillion IP Economy

Since its independent online launch, 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, with a focus on the most valuable yet easily overlooked area - the real-world data relied upon by AI.

The Starting Point of Everything

The launch of the mainnet marks the beginning of Chapter One for Story. Over the past few months, we have been working hard to pave the way for the next phase. This update will initiate a series of significant upgrades, and over the coming weeks, you will witness how this vision gradually comes to fruition.

Story was born to cope with a world where the speed 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 has achieved several key milestones:

• Created a Layer 1 blockchain specifically designed for intellectual property, equipped with a fully functional IP native protocol, and has supported hundreds of thousands of IPs for on-chain rights confirmation;
• Promoting the tokenization of globally renowned IP assets: IPs of music superstars such as Justin Bieber, BLACKPINK, and BTS have been put on the blockchain through Aria, and the IPs of international brands like Crocs and Adidas have been realized on the blockchain through Ablo;
• Collaborate with Stability AI to develop AI applications, embedding a contribution tracking mechanism to achieve fair profit distribution for all IP participants;
• Over $100 million in funds have been bridged across chains via the protocol;
• Attract millions of creators to join platforms like Magma, ensuring the ecosystem continues to thrive.

The current Story has transformed from a vision into a true underlying infrastructure that supports scalable IP assets.

Story Unlock Exclusive Value for AI

Recently, an increasing number of leaders in the AI industry have expressed to us that they need data assets with IP authorization, verifiable sources, clear permissions, and profit distribution mechanisms. At the same time, these mechanisms must automatically update and remain effective when the data is reused, repurposed, or integrated into AI processes (especially robotic applications).

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

With Story, you can:

• Achieve data programmatic authorization through on-chain executable logic;
• Complete data traceability and profit distribution in complex AI workflows;
• Automatically distribute benefits to multiple parties in 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 traditional and non-traditional IP, including real-world data assets.

This means that Story has unlocked unprecedented capabilities: transforming data into registered IP assets, tracking all derivative usage paths, and fairly distributing the profits to each participant—from the original data creators to the synthetic data developers.

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

The Key to Winning in the Next Stage of AI: Authorized Real-World Data

A new round of AI competition has shifted toward the competition for "usable, legal, and safe" real-world data. This competition will determine the development pattern of the next generation of physical AI models, such as robots and medical AI. As Meta's Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth said, 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 made it clear: the real bottleneck in AI development is the collection of real-world data. In other words, data has become the new battlefield and core resource in the AI competition.

At the same time, computing power, energy, and AI models are gradually becoming commoditized, and the only assets that remain scarce are those 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 of 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, the traditional IP framework is unable to cope with a world that produces billions of pieces of content daily. The result is that this $70 trillion IP market is instead facing 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 the $700 billion intellectual property market for AI, particularly in the fastest-growing yet most underestimated area - real-world data.

The so-called "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 points in time and space.

For example in real life:

• A driver's dashcam captured a cyclist suddenly appearing in thick fog - this became a valuable computer vision training sample;
• Data annotators add high-quality labels to it (such as bounding boxes, metadata, etc.);
• Contributors (including AI agents with crypto wallets) generate synthetic versions under different weather conditions based on the scenario. These three stages each constitute independent IP contributions, collectively supporting the training of a new AI model. The contributions of these three are valuable intellectual property - an indispensable part of training AI models.

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

On Story, each contributor (whether human or AI agent) can do the following:

• Register data assets;
• Embed custom licensing and revenue distribution logic;
• Automatically earn real-time revenue sharing when data is labeled, synthesized, or trained.

More importantly, Story is the only on-chain platform that can fully track this entire process, ensuring real-time confirmation of data/IP assets and their legitimate monetization in the AI era. In today's rapidly developing AI landscape and explosive growth of content, Story has not "transformed," but rather 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 named this stage "Chapter 2", and its core mission is: to fully unleash the value of IP and data in the AI era.

This stage focuses on three mutually supportive pillars:

• Physical AI Model Data Layer: Story will become the infrastructure for high-value, non-scrapable real-world training data in the AI field, coordinating data supply and demand through the DePIN network and supporting systems, providing compliant and secure data flows for AI models.

From room-organizing robots to intelligent cars that drive steadily in rain and fog, and to voice assistants that understand multilingual accents, we have delivered critical task datasets for global enterprises and will fully showcase this capability through upcoming projects.

• Global IP On-Chain: Story will tokenize IPs to extend far beyond music and fashion, covering undeveloped trillion-dollar markets such as sports, DeSci (Decentralized Science), and pan-entertainment.

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

• Innovating traditional licensing models: In collaboration with partners who have served top brands such as LVMH and Lucasfilm, Story will help global brands actively 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 hotspots; transforming unpredictable cultural phenomena into licensed IP assets.

Behind these three pillars, there is a unified and powerful main line: Story is systematically releasing those once "unreachable" values—whether it is scarce data, global IP combinations, or sudden cultural phenomena.

In each scenario, Story transforms these assets into real tradable economic opportunities through a scalable permission mechanism, on-chain enforcement and monetization capabilities, as well as IP programmability.

New Generation IP Economy

We are heading towards a future where all intellectual property, from AI training data to popular cultural content, will achieve transparent authorization, clear ownership, secure control, and free circulation and monetization of value.

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

Reshaping the Future of Intellectual Property with Us

The core strength of Story comes from our diverse community - builders, developers, businesses, and investors are collectively shaping the future of intellectual property. We always adhere to the principle of value sharing, continuously listening to feedback, collaborating openly, and promoting the sustainable growth of the ecosystem.

This vision requires more companions. We sincerely invite global creators, businesses, and pioneers to work together to build the IP licensing infrastructure of the AI era.

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