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Introducing the Story Network Security Council, an independent cohort of up to 11 security experts responsible for rapid response and proactive network monitoring. The council will be responsible for safeguarding network upgrades and emergency responses, ensuring the integrity of IP as an onchain asset class. This moment marks a major step towards safeguarding the network and accelerating the path to full $IP token holder governance. Meet the inaugural members and read more on the blog below ↓ https://lnkd.in/gb_Sj2BB

The Grayscale Investments Story Trust is live. Accredited investors can now gain exposure to $IP, the token powering Story's AI-native infrastructure for the $80T+ IP economy. IP's institutional era starts today. Learn more ↴

Introducing the Grayscale Story Trust #IP 📚 Story is laying the foundational infrastructure for the global intellectual property economy, which has been reported to be worth as much as $80T¹. 🤖 AI-Ready Data: With projects like Poseidon, Story brings licensing to real-world data for physical AI, powering technologies such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, and surgical systems. ⚖️ Legal + Blockchain in One: Story unifies smart contract licensing with graph-based tracking to manage intellectual property rights, royalties, and attribution across creative works and AI pipelines. 🔁 Programmable Intellectual Property: Register, remix, and monetize intellectual property with token-bound accounts embedding licensing logic and automated payments. ✅ Proven Traction: With over 1.7 million intellectual property transactions and more than 200,000 monthly users². See important disclosures and learn more about the Grayscale Story Trust: https://lnkd.in/eGwCWHYB Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/eWGxJ4mZ ¹ According to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 2025 Global Innovation Index, the estimated value of intangible assets — including intellectual property, data, software, brands, and human capital — held by publicly listed companies worldwide exceeds $80 trillion. Source: WIPO, The Value of Intangible Assets of Corporations (2025). ² Story Blockchain Explorer, as of July 7, 2025

Imagine never folding laundry again. The internet trained LLMs, but robots and self-driving cars need training data that is much more challenging to source. Psdn.ai enables the collection, curation, and licensing of real-world data to accelerate physical AI. Use cases: Videos of household tasks → Fine-tuned robotics models that can fold laundry, do dishes, prep food Dashcam footage from snowy, rural, or low-light conditions → AVs that don’t fail on edge cases because they’re trained on them Multilingual, real-world speech with accents and background noise → Voice assistants that understand how people actually talk

Robots, autonomous vehicles, voice systems – the next wave of AI exists in the real world. Data is one of IP's most valuable assets and physical AI's biggest bottleneck. Backed by a $15M seed round led by a16z crypto and founded by Sandeep Chinchali and Sarick S., Story incubated project Poseidon expands what’s possible for physical AI. Built on Story’s IP rails to collect, verify, and license the most critical asset for AI, Poseidon solves the challenge of sourcing high-quality, real-world training data that cannot be found nor scraped on the open internet. The future of AI needs more than compute. It needs data. Poseidon is building that future. Powered by Story. psdn.ai

Introducing our new Chief AI Officer, Sandeep Chinchali. Sandeep is a professor at UT Austin focusing on GenAI, robotics, and distributed systems. He’s an ex-NASA researcher, early engineer of a startup acquired by VMware, and holds a Stanford PhD in AI and distributed systems. As Chief AI Officer, Sandeep will lead Story's AI strategy, driving key incubations and advising the broader ecosystem on how to capture the immense AI opportunity ahead. Sandeep’s work has long focused on how robots, sensors and ML models can learn from the messy physical world. Now he's bringing his expertise to web3 and Story. That's because AI’s next leap isn’t about more GPUs. It’s about unlocking the most valuable (and underserved) category of IP: real-world data. Sandeep's appointment is an important step towards achieving Story's Chapter 2 vision. Next week, this vision will come to life in a big way. Get to know Sandeep in his blog below: https://lnkd.in/gNUVjS6U

Chapter 2 starts today. AI's next leap isn't about bigger models. It's about IP and its most valuable category: Real-world Data. Story is building the AI-native infrastructure for this $70T IP economy. Since launching mainnet, we’ve been heads down building Story to make IP programmable, enforceable, and monetizable at internet speed. Story's next phase focuses on: • Data pipelines for training physical AI • Tokenizing global IP beyond music & fashion • Turning viral chaos into owned, monetizable IP AI's next frontier is physical and it requires IP-cleared, real-world data. Story is building the licensing layer for this $70T+ opportunity. From robots that see in rain and fog to brands turning viral UGC into owned IP, we’re laying the rails for an AI-native IP economy. In the coming month, you'll see this vision take shape. Read more about Chapter 2 below: https://lnkd.in/gquYyJy9

We're working with World to unlock a new era of human creativity, accelerated by AI. World proves you're human → Story helps you scale your IP with AI. Together, we're building a world where your IP is provably human, programmable, and built to scale with AI tools. Full details on The Block: https://lnkd.in/gsXA5grK

IP licensing isn’t a chore. It’s an unlock. It defines how your IP is used, by who, where, and for how long. In the AI era, those rules matter now more than ever. Your terms. Your upside. Read the IP Licensing 101 breakdown↴ https://lnkd.in/g-4iycHf

The Surreal World Assets Buildathon has wrapped. From over 800 participants, to 118 submissions, to just 6 winners chosen to present at Demo Day, the results of this Buildathon were staggering. Our DevRel team spent a whopping 24 hours total carefully judging each project, getting hands on with the impressive quality across all submissions (shout out Jacob Tucker!) Hats off to our production partner Encode Club, who helped to host workshops, milestones, IRL meetups, and our grand finale Demo Day with ease. Supported further by our bounty partners, we're pleased to see what cross-collaboration over a virtual month-long Buildathon can achieve. The future of AI x IP x RWAs is looking bright.