Aria Protocol's native token $ARIAIP, is LIVE! Today marks a major milestone inviting the Aria community to participate in the next phase of Protocol growth. Eligible participants for the $ARIAIP Community Airdrop can now claim: app.ariaprotocol.xyz/airdrop Details ↓

Our Technical Roadmap is Live! Story is committed to driving continuous improvements to L1 performance, reliability, and decentralization. And built on top of our L1 infrastructure is a unique stack of IP-focused product features and applications. Dive in ↴

Engineering is at the core of @StoryProtocol, so we welcome engineers, developers, builders... degens. For you all, today we launch Iliad, our first public testnet. Come and build the future of IP with us. Welcome!

Story's first public testnet, Iliad, is live. Join thousands of builders and creators solving real problems on the World's IP Blockchain.

Today we’re announcing that @a16zcrypto is leading an $80M Series B financing of PIP Labs, developer of @storyprotocol. We want to help Story become the infrastructure for AI systems and creative people to happily co-exist. For decades, the internet has operated on an implicit economic covenant between creators and platforms: creators provide supply, and platforms provide demand. Writers allow search engines to index their articles in the hope of driving traffic to their sites. Artists upload images and videos to social networks to build audiences. The system worked because it benefited both parties. Advances in generative AI are likely to break this covenant. A new wave of AI-powered search engines give comprehensive answers instead of guiding users to websites. Social networks are increasingly populated by AI-generated images and videos. These AI systems were likely trained on original, human-created content but often don’t credit or cite their sources. If there’s no attribution or compensation, what incentive will there be to publish original creations on the open internet? Story is a blockchain protocol that allows creators to register their intellectual property so they can track and monitor use, ensuring their legal and economic rights are protected. This means that creators of original content are rewarded, no matter how their content gets used and distributed. Meanwhile, licensing IP becomes low friction and standardized, encouraging widespread sharing and collaboration. The goal is to create foundational infrastructure that can underpin a new economic covenant between creators and platforms. Some examples of projects that are building on top of Story include @magma_com, @joinsekai, and Ablo by @spacerunnersnft. Magma is a collaborative art platform enabling artists to register their IP, set the rules of engagement (commercial, remixing, AI usage), and open up assets to contributions from collaborators. Sekai is an AI storytelling platform that helps storytellers, artists, and fans co-create immersive interactive stories via simple prompts. Ablo allows anyone to use generative AI to customize and remix the latest fashions, using Story to handle IP registration and creator attribution, and share revenue between designers and brands. The team behind Story brings deep expertise from both the tech and creative worlds. We first met CEO/cofounder @storysylee three years ago, after he sold his company, Radish Fiction, to Kakao. He has consistently impressed us with his combination of big-picture vision and world-class tactical execution. His cofounder @jasonzhao studied CS at Stanford, dove deeper into AI at DeepMind, and now leads technical development on the Story Protocol. For AI systems and creative people to both thrive, creators need a modern way to ensure they get compensated for their work. Story takes a proven approach — intellectual property law — and updates it for the age of AI. We are excited to support the Story team on this important mission.

It’s an incredible honor to be part of this journey, and I’m beyond excited to tackle real challenges in IP. We’re building something that will last! 🚀

1/ Announcing $140M in total fundraising to build Story, the World’s IP Blockchain.

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Introducing Story Network, the World's IP Blockchain. Story L1 enshrines the Proof of Creativity protocol, tokenizing a multi-trillion dollar asset class into Programmable IP legos In the era of AI-powered creativity, Story is powering an IP legoland👇

Story is tokenizing the world's creativity by registering NFTs as IP Assets. An IP Asset is composed of two things: an ERC-721 NFT and an associated Token Bound Account that unlocks various modules. But what does this actually do for an NFT? 🧵 ⤵️

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Take a trip to Caridea Island and meet The Neighbours, the newest destination in the Programmable IP universe brought to life by @mycelium_io in collaboration with @Mindblowon_io studios. Powered by Story

I’m going to @OurTinTinLand’s upcoming Space. Will you join too? nitter.net/i/spaces/1jMJgmEPdkAKL

I’m going to @StoryProtocol’s upcoming Space. Will you join too? nitter.net/i/spaces/1BdxYrgvLqyKX

Announcing our partnership with @myshell_ai Story Protocol will empower over 1M AI creators on MyShell via Programmable IP MyShell model & app creators can: 📑 Register their AI models as IP on-chain 💰 Set usage/monetization terms for model licensing 🗃️ Track model outputs

Permissionless or not permissionless, That is a question. At StoryProtocol, we believe in the power of permissionless. Our answer: Permissionless IP registration! Dive into the future of programmable IP with us. #StoryProtocol

Announcing our partnership with @ritualnet We are bringing crypto and AI together. AI models on Ritual can be registered seamlessly as IP Assets on Story Protocol Programmable IP 🤝 AI Learn more below 🧵

(1/n) The biggest problem in AI is the attribution, provenance, and compensation to creators. Its' the intellectual property! Today I shared Story's Programmable IP Layer in the age of generative AI at Convergence AI Summit by @1kxnetwork. Wanted to share for wider public. 🧵

Congrats to the Sekai team for winning the ETHDenver general hackathon among 200+ teams #BuiltOnStory