Take independent musician Xiaoya, who is still struggling with demo copyright issues, while those Wall Street traders have already coded a direct disruption to the industry. Today, when Heritage Distilling (NASDAQ: $CASK) officially announced this, it felt like two seemingly unrelated worlds collided.

This award-winning craft distillery suddenly threw out a cross-industry bomb—establishing a $360 million treasury reserve linked entirely to @StoryProtocol's IP tokens. Even more impressive is the backing of a $220 million financing team: $100 million in cash + $120 million in IP tokens (which are directly from the issuer's hands)!

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

@a16zcrypto has entered with the first strategic reserve investment from a listed company in history.

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

This is not financing; it is clearly issuing a Wall Street pass for programmable IP.

Let me mention something from three months ago.

Los Angeles animator Mark had his original characters taken by an AI company to train models, and during the rights protection process, he couldn't even untangle the copyright chain. But now, with fluctuations in $CASK stock on NASDAQ, every shareholder is indirectly supporting a new possibility: in the future, Mark's creativity can be precisely tracked like Bitcoin, and for every training session the AI conducts, royalties can be automatically credited.

The trick of this operation lies in the details.

Heritage put out $82 million, buying IP tokens from the Story Foundation at a lock-in price of $3.40. The foundation immediately threw this money back into the market, publicly repurchasing IP tokens within 90 days.

It's like giving the IP economy a perpetual motion machine—liquidity is up, creators are empowered, and investors have a new track to pursue.

Story Protocol is not just here to ride the blockchain hype. If Xiaoya's new song goes on-chain through its system, it can not only automatically identify cover versions, but the revenue from TikTok short videos can also be credited to the account in real-time. This logic of 'rights established upon creation, payment upon use' is transforming the $80 trillion IP market from a previously blurred gray area into programmable digital gold.

Now open your stock software and take a look.

What you are buying may not only be shares in a distillery company but also betting on a new rule: in the future, not only big companies can play with IP; an independent creator's emoji or a programmer's open-source code can also become a continuously generating asset through this system.

When blockchain starts giving AI-era creativity a 'digital ID card', we might witness something like this happening:

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

How do you think this story will develop next?

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