Sometimes when we publish works on the Internet, we often face several dilemmas. Valuable content may be used by platforms, spread secondarily, or even taken by AI companies for model training, but the original authors either know very little or find it difficult to receive fair compensation.
The transaction threshold is particularly high. If one wants to authorize or sell IP, it often requires negotiating through intermediaries or platform parties and signing cumbersome contracts, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Modern creation often requires a large amount of external resources and multi-party collaboration. The existing system's transaction process is inefficient and lacks flexible management of multi-party rights.
In the previously written 'Track Stars Born from the Times,' this time the updated white paper from @StoryProtocol mentions: placing all forms of intellectual property onto a 'programmable ledger' to achieve multi-party consensus, transactions, and automatic revenue distribution through smart contracts. This way, not only can individuals, enterprises, and AI models equally obtain or provide IP, but also significantly reduce protocol costs, allowing valuable ideas or research results to truly achieve efficient circulation.
'Multi-core' blockchain: Story Protocol proposes a blockchain architecture with a multi-core execution environment tailored for intellectual property:
The main core is compatible with Ethereum EVM, allowing existing smart contracts and DApps to be quickly ported while handling general transaction logic.
In the initial version, Story has three important dedicated cores built-in. The IP Core is specifically designed to efficiently manage IP-related data structures and business logic. It not only supports the registration of IP on-chain but also maintains a map containing all IPs and their derivative relationships, facilitating tracing, authorization, and profit-sharing;
Offchain Synchronization Core: Responsible for interfacing with the off-chain world, such as identity verification, social credit endorsement, and synchronizing off-chain payments or legal contracts with on-chain contracts;
Cross-Chain Communication Core: Cross-chain communication support allows IP assets on Story to be brought into other blockchain applications or, conversely, to integrate external assets or information into the Story ecosystem.
The benefit of this multi-core design is: providing a customized blockchain underlying environment for different types of businesses, ensuring efficient core functionality while maintaining overall network security and scalability.
PoC provides a registration and tracking framework, similar to how Git tracks code versions, which can record the complete context of IP from creation, derivation to secondary authorization.
As long as creators register IP in Story, the system will automatically generate a series of combinable rules and interfaces, allowing others to purchase, rent, or create secondarily, and automatically allocate profits based on the contract.
In case of an IP dispute, arbitration can be conducted through a combination of on-chain and off-chain methods, with various decentralized validators or agencies participating; legal services off-chain can also be relied upon to address infringement issues.
From a certain perspective, Story enables the 'intellectual property graph' to become an on-chain infrastructure, significantly reducing IP transaction costs and minimizing intermediary roles, allowing for smooth reuse of resources and ideas.
A natural connection to the AI world. Nowadays, everyone's enthusiasm for artificial intelligence is unprecedented. Data and models are the two main pillars of AI success. However, the better the training data and the more advanced the models, the more a good revenue-sharing and rights confirmation mechanism is needed to incentivize more people to provide data, algorithms, and computing power.
Story specifically introduces the concept of 'Chain of Intelligence' in the white paper:
Datasets, models, and fine-tuning packages can be registered as IP assets on Story, allowing AI developers to fine-tune or conduct deep learning based on the models and data. Once new models generate revenue, they can automatically distribute shares to relevant contributors.
This white paper also mentions 'Agent TCP/IP,' allowing AI agents to autonomously access and pay for the required data or models, thereby achieving autonomous collaboration between machines.
In other words, if in the future AI agents need a specific training dataset, Story's IP map can help them quickly find data sources, automatically negotiate authorization, and complete payments, this process requires almost no human intervention, greatly expanding the possibilities of the AI economy.
From token design, from PoS to IP circulation. Story plans to issue a native token IP, which serves as the staking token for its PoS consensus mechanism to maintain network security and is also used as a circulating currency in the IP ecosystem. It mainly undertakes the following functions: transaction fee payment: all registrations, authorizations, and transactions related to IP require the consumption of IP tokens.
In terms of revenue distribution, when a certain IP generates economic returns (such as paid AI model training or film copyright sales), the revenue can be automatically converted or distributed to all rights holders according to an agreed ratio.
Value flow between cross-chain and agents: If AI agents 'purchase' others' models or data on Story, they also need IP tokens for settlement.
The benefit of this approach is to form a unified economic closed loop: new creators and new IP will attract more users and AI agents to obtain or trade IP, thus driving the use and consumption of tokens, creating a positive supply and demand cycle for the network.
Core values and challenges. From the overall idea of the white paper, Story hopes to become a 'decentralized operating system for intellectual property,' allowing creators, enterprises, and AI developers to more conveniently confirm rights and trade their intellectual achievements.
Cross-chain and ecological construction, to allow more content, data, and models to flow into Story, it is necessary to connect with other public chains, industry alliances, traditional platforms, and even internal enterprise systems. For ordinary users, blockchain and smart contracts are still relatively unfamiliar; Story simplifies the registration and transaction process for IP to be as easy as logging into a website, which is key to its popularity.
The Story Protocol white paper depicts a future where both 'content creators' and 'AI agents' can freely exchange, combine, and monetize IP on the same network. It seems idealistic, yet it offers a feasible technical path addressing real pain points: on one hand, using multi-core blockchain to solve scalability and specialization issues; on the other hand, bringing traditional intellectual property processes on-chain through PoC protocols and IP Graph, closely integrating with the needs of artificial intelligence.
This new ecosystem that spans creative economy, decentralized finance, and artificial intelligence training will undoubtedly face varying degrees of challenges, but its core concept is already enlightening: the future of intellectual property management may no longer be dictated by a few large platforms, but rather, with the help of open-source networks and smart contracts, everyone can enjoy the benefits of creation and trade under transparent and efficient rules.
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