When I was a child, there was an old video hall near my home, with walls covered in posters of pirated Hong Kong films.
The owner would put one pirated disc after another into the DVD player, playing them over and over, while neighbors could watch all night for just two yuan.
The directors, actors, and screenwriters of those films may never know that their works were transmitted to our small town, nor would they receive even a cent from those few yuan.
At that time, I didn't understand what copyright meant.
I only knew that good works would spread, but the process of spreading never respected the value of the creators.
More than twenty years have passed, and this issue has become more serious in the digital age.
Today's creators, whether writing articles, illustrating, recording music, or creating recipes, are easily copied by platforms, crawlers, and AI tools, resulting in meager income.
What Camp aims to do is to fundamentally reconstruct this chain of value loss—ensuring that every creation, use, and re-creation of creators is recorded, profit-shared, and attributed.
For example, a food blogger uploads their original recipe to Camp and sets usage rules: free for personal cooking reference, profit-sharing for commercial use.
A few months later, this recipe is purchased by a restaurant for commercial authorization, becoming a signature dish.
A food magazine re-created the recipe, turning it into a holiday special.
The AI kitchen assistant has also included it in the recipe library for smart cooking machines to use.
Camp will fully record these call paths, allowing every commercial use to trace back to the original author, and distribute profits according to the contract.
Food bloggers can see their recipes move from the kitchen to restaurants, magazines, and AI platforms, and every time they are 'used', it becomes a visible source of income.
This mechanism is being continuously verified and expanded in the third phase of Camp's recent test network.
This time they have directly brought projects from four fields: gaming, music, IP tokenization, and digital markets, allowing creators to 'play' directly on the blockchain.
From on-chain poker, flying birds, to 'earn while listening' music applications, and localized sneaker digital markets, every task and interaction will accumulate as on-chain assets for creators.
At the same time, they have lowered the participation threshold for new users, allowing more people to quickly engage in 'on-chain creation + profit' gameplay.
Once this on-chain path network is rich enough, it will be like a 'coral reef' of the digital age, allowing various creations, collaborations, and commercial activities to naturally thrive within it, forming a self-driven ecosystem.
And when that day comes, the meaning of creation will be more than just expression and documentation.
It will become an asset chain that continuously creates economic value, allowing every inspiration, every collaboration, and every recreation to bring visible returns.
In that world, talent will no longer rely on the charity of platforms, but will be in the hands of the creators themselves.
This is the environment Camp aims to build, and it is the soil that every generation of creators truly longs for.