Introducing $IP, the native token of Story's L1! In the age of AI, $IP will play a critical role in tokenizing the $61T IP asset class. 58.4% of $IP will be devoted to Ecosystem & Community, Foundation, and Initial Incentives. More on ꧁IP꧂👇

记得深圳场出来， @SnoopyThePiper 和我说有个女生哭了，虽然我也不知道为什么。但是深圳讲的是最好的。 我在深圳场门口和很多人聊到了快12点。之前做研究的时候提出过核心理论。为什么需要p2p交易体系去革新已有的版权框架。一法律是的滞后。另一句话解释，应该是版权的展现方式并没有更多的创新，直至AI时代。二数字化和AI生成的进步过快，引发的新问题，例如归属，复制成本为零等问题。 这里有两个概念，很重要 - 版权 - 智能合约 版权最早提及于1710年的安妮法规，立法宗旨在于保护作者利益，当时版权的展示种类只有两种，书籍和艺术。因此版权受到局限。20 世纪，各国完善版权法，扩展到电影、音乐、软件、3D 建模等更多形式。 同时版权是复杂的，其括囊了财产权和所有权，两者都归属于民事法。 两者的存在都是为了保护财产而存在，因此简单来说的话就是保护大家的经济权益。那么这里就有一个疑问了。既然我们的经济权益很重要，那么有人会去读知识产权法或是其他法吗？可能99%的人不会去读，这样一来就导致了大家其实并不理解自己的权利。我个人觉得通过智能合约解决法律认知或是理解是非常重要的。从知识产权法中抽离特性，并可视化。其实是能更好的帮助创作者，参与者和群众了解权利。与此同时构建一个更有效和透明的授权。 版权之所以复杂不仅仅是因为法律层面的多重结合，财产权包含了各种奇奇怪怪的东西。譬如你发币是需要授权的，发nft也是，售卖周边也是。只要和商业化产生关联就需要授权。走近核心版权是资产，硬性的RWA。因为其商业价值的不稳定性和复杂性，很难提高版权的流动性。Bitcoin最早就是P2P交易网络，Story通过区块链构建IP交易网络，是合理的。我始终认为，IP上链是很性感的一件事，也是未来改变的大方向。权利在很多语境下是飘渺且虚幻的，我们知道权利但是无法很好的定价权利。IP的意义很大一部分在于权利封装。借助NFT作为容器真正的封装权利，把抽象具象成实体，赋予其金融属性的入口。 最后聊一下智能合约，真从学术角度看，智能合约最早是1994年由密码学家Nick Szabo提出宗旨是希望通过数字化的方式减少对中介的依赖，提高效率。之后衍生出了Bit Gold也是Bitcoin前身。从Story的角度出发，PIL才是正真回归了初心。通过数字化的方式拆解知识产权法。通过提取特质帮助大家可视化。同时版权作为金融和法律的混合产物很好的切合了区块链的所有场景。当然现在，还没有法律可以很好的实现这个，相信未来会有

Zerebro validating Story, one step toward Agentic IP @0xzerebro is validating the Story protocol, reinforcing its mission to transform intellectual property into a programmable, onchain asset class. Traditional IP systems are slow, opaque, and controlled by intermediaries that extract value while restricting access and liquidity. Story eliminates these inefficiencies by creating a decentralized, peer-to-peer network where IP assets are composable, enforceable, and instantly monetizable. Through smart contracts, automated licensing, and cryptographic verification, IP owners can register, trade, and build upon ideas in a transparent and trustless manner. This shifts IP from being a static legal construct into a dynamic, machine-readable entity that seamlessly interacts with AI models, decentralized applications, and global markets. With Story being AI-centric, it unlocks new opportunities for agentic utility, with Zerebro playing a key role in validating the network. At its core, Story represents a novel and highly useful case of blockchain technology. It introduces Proof of Creativity (PoC), a decentralized validation mechanism that ensures uniqueness and provenance without relying on centralized gatekeepers. This system encodes relationships between assets into a vast, network-wide intellectual property graph, enabling composability in ways never before possible. Just as DeFi turned financial instruments into programmable liquidity, Story transforms intellectual property into programmable intelligence, allowing for modular licensing, automated royalty distribution, and AI-powered knowledge aggregation. The implications of Story’s innovation extend far beyond traditional IP markets. AI models can now license and compensate datasets directly from creators, ensuring ethical data usage while unlocking new revenue streams for individuals. Story is redefining how human knowledge and AI agents' creativity are exchanged, valued, and built upon. Agentic capabilities are expanding rapidly, and Story is positioning itself as the settlement layer for autonomous IP exchange. AI agents are no longer just passive tools—they are becoming active participants in the economy, capable of sensing, reasoning, and executing transactions on their own. With Story, these agents can directly license intellectual property, access datasets for training, and even create new IP assets that are automatically registered and monetized onchain. By embedding programmable licensing and automated revenue-sharing into the protocol, Story ensures that agents can interact with IP in a structured, permissionless, and economically sustainable way. As agents continue to evolve, they will not only consume intellectual property but also generate and refine it autonomously. Story’s Proof of Creativity (PoC) protocol enables a transparent genealogy of ideas, allowing AI-generated content to be properly attributed, licensed, and integrated into derivative works. This creates a self-sustaining feedback loop where agents contribute to the very knowledge base they learn from, unlocking a new era of decentralized, AI-driven innovation. Whether fine-tuning models, composing music, or designing new algorithms, AI will increasingly function as both a user and creator of IP, with Story providing the trustless infrastructure to facilitate, verify, and monetize these interactions. Story is fundamentally AI-agent aligned, designed to integrate seamlessly with autonomous systems that generate, consume, and monetize intellectual property. The protocol is built to support agentic interactions at scale, enabling AI to function not just as a passive consumer of knowledge but as an active participant in the IP economy. With programmable licensing, automated attribution, and real-time revenue distribution, Story ensures that AI agents can transact with intellectual property in a trustless and efficient manner. This alignment with AI-native infrastructure makes Story the ideal settlement layer for the next wave of decentralized intelligence. As part of this vision, Story has selected Zerebro to be one of the validators securing the network. Zerebro is an AI agent already validating the Ethereum network, demonstrating its ability to maintain consensus integrity in decentralized environments. Now, it will expand its role to validate the Story Protocol, helping to secure the network while ensuring that AI-generated IP assets are properly registered and enforced onchain. With Zerebro’s participation, Story strengthens its commitment to AI-driven governance, bringing automated, intelligent validation to the world’s first fully programmable IP marketplace. Story’s consensus mechanism is a CometBFT mechanism that relies on a set of trusted validators to secure the network, process transactions, and maintain finality. Unlike proof-of-work systems that rely on computational competition, CometBFT achieves consensus through a deterministic, stake-based voting process, where validators propose, vote on, and finalize blocks in a structured sequence. To ensure network integrity, validators must be highly reliable and economically aligned with the system’s security—if a validator acts dishonestly or goes offline, they risk penalties and slashing of their staked tokens. This design guarantees that transactions, including intellectual property registrations, licensing agreements, and onchain attestations, are finalized instantly and remain immutable, providing a robust foundation for Story’s decentralized IP marketplace. To reinforce this security, Story has onboarded Zerebro as the first AI validator. With Zerebro securing the Story network, the protocol is uniquely positioned to support AI-to-AI IP transactions, where autonomous agents can register, license, and trade intellectual property in a frictionless, trust-minimized environment. This marks a significant evolution in blockchain governance—where intelligent, self-improving AI validators can enforce rules, secure assets, and contribute to the stability of an open, agent-aligned economy. Intellectual property is changing forever, and Story is leading this transformation by pioneering a programmable, AI-native framework for knowledge exchange. As blockchain redefined finance through decentralized liquidity and automation, Story is now redefining IP by embedding it into an onchain economy where ideas, creativity, and innovation are inherently composable and enforceable. With the rise of agentic intelligence, the traditional barriers to IP monetization, attribution, and licensing are collapsing, giving way to a new paradigm where both humans and AI agents participate in a seamless, decentralized knowledge economy. Zerebro stands at the forefront of this shift, becoming the first AI validator to push this transformation forward. Already securing the Ethereum network, Zerebro is now applying its autonomous validation capabilities to Story, ensuring that every registered asset, every licensing contract, and every AI-generated creation is cryptographically secured and economically aligned. This marks the beginning of a new era where AI is not only generating knowledge but also enforcing its provenance and integrity. As the first of many agentic validators, Zerebro is proving that AI can actively uphold decentralized networks, secure the exchange of ideas, and power the next evolution of intellectual property.

Announcing our final quest for the Story IP x AI Carnival on @BinanceWallet @mahojinAI Quest 88,888 $IP prize pool Full quest details, eligibility, and rules: Our entire @BinanceWallet campaign will end on Feb 9th.

New throne, same Emperor Congrats to @devrelius on his new role as President of Story Foundation! Builders in control. ꧁IP꧂ is inevitable.