Just saying, independent musician Xiao Ya is still struggling with copyright protection for her demo, while those traders on Wall Street have already coded a direct disruption for the industry. Today, with Heritage Distilling (NASDAQ: $CASK) officially announcing this, two seemingly unrelated worlds just collided.

This award-winning craft distillery suddenly throws out a cross-industry bomb — establishing a $360 million treasury reserve, all tied to @StoryProtocol's IP tokens. What's even more impressive is that there's a supporting financing team behind it with $220 million: $100 million in cash + $120 million in IP tokens (still hard assets taken directly from the issuer)!

Looking at the list of investors, it's quite luxurious:

@a16zcrypto has made its first-ever strategic reserve investment in a publicly listed company.

@arrington_cap and @polychain, these top players in the crypto circle have also come to support.

This isn't financing; it's clearly giving programmable IP a Wall Street passport.

Let me mention something that happened three months ago.

Mark, an animator from Los Angeles, had his original character used by an AI company to train models, and when it came to rights protection, he couldn't even clarify the copyright chain. But now, every time the $CASK stock moves on NASDAQ, every shareholder is indirectly supporting a new possibility: in the future, Mark's ideas can be tracked as precisely as Bitcoin, and every time the AI trains, royalties can be automatically credited.

The tricks of this operation are hidden in the details:

Heritage has put out $82 million, purchasing IP tokens from the Story Foundation at a locked price of $3.40. The foundation immediately reinvested all this money back into the market, publicly repurchasing IP tokens within 90 days.

It's like equipping the IP economy with a perpetual motion machine — liquidity is coming in, creators are gaining strength, and investors have a new track to explore.

Story Protocol is not just here to ride the blockchain trend. If Xiao Ya's new song is uploaded to its system, it can not only automatically identify cover versions, but the revenue from Douyin short videos can also be credited to the account in real-time. This logic of 'creating means securing rights, using means paying' is transforming the $80 trillion IP market from a previously vague gray area into programmable digital gold.

Now, open your stock software and take a look.

What you might be buying is not just shares in a distillery company, but a bet on a new rule: in the future, not only big companies can play with IP, but an independent creator's emoji or a programmer's piece of open-source code can also become a continuously profitable asset through this system.

When blockchain begins to equip the creative ideas of the AI era with 'digital IDs', we might be witnessing something like this happen:

Those small individuals who were previously suppressed by capital can finally share in the capital market thanks to their own inspiration.

How do you think this story will develop next? 📈💡

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