Suede AI IP Registry
What is Suede AI IP Registry?
Suede AI IP Registry is a public provenance registry and the ID and trust layer for music. Upload a finished file and the registry takes a SHA-256 fingerprint of those exact bytes. You sign a creator claim that lists your contributors and a rights declaration, and the chain timestamps it. The whole thing takes about two minutes and costs about a cent in network fees as of November 2026.
FingerprintA SHA-256 hash of the exact file, so a different export gets its own record.
ClaimA wallet-signed claim naming the creator, every contributor and a rights declaration.
TimestampBlock time on Base or Avalanche mainnet, with identical contract bytecode on both.
LineageRemixes, covers, samples and AI-assisted versions link on-chain to their parent work.
Each work gets an ERC-721 certificate and its own on-chain IP account. Signing up creates a smart wallet for you, with no seed phrase and nothing to install. Your rights stay with you, and anyone can check the record on a public explorer without asking Suede AI. Read more about what a creation record shows and how provenance travels with a work.
Adobe Content Authenticity
What is Adobe Content Authenticity?
Adobe Content Authenticity is a free Adobe app for applying Content Credentials, the C2PA-based provenance metadata, to your work. It launched as a public beta on April 24, 2025 with batch signing for up to 50 JPG or PNG files at once, a verified name through Verified on LinkedIn, links to social accounts, and a Generative AI Training and Usage Preference. Adobe says its credentials combine secure metadata, invisible watermarks and digital fingerprinting so they stay connected to a file after a screenshot.
Adobe has said it plans to connect the app to Creative Cloud apps that support Content Credentials, such as Photoshop and Lightroom. LinkedIn joined the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative as part of the public beta launch.
Why Suede AI
Why do creators choose Suede AI over Adobe Content Authenticity?
A record outside the file
The Suede AI record lives on public chains, so it can be checked from the fingerprint even when a copy of the file has lost its metadata.
Collaborators, named
A signed claim lists every contributor and a rights declaration, the way music credits work.
Every kind of file
Songs, stems, beats, lyrics, artwork, video, code, datasets and voice models register the same way.
Remixes stay connected
A derivative is registered as its own work and linked on-chain to its parent.
SourcesWhere do these facts come from?
Facts about each product come from its own site, app listing or the named press coverage, checked on November 3, 2026. Product names belong to their owners.
About the author
Jason Colapietro is an engineer, author, and the founder and CEO of Suede AI. He has 54 pull requests merged across 46 open-source repositories he does not maintain, including Jest, Adobe React Spectrum, Backstage and the Polkadot SDK; he has written five books on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle, including The Claude Code Bible and Codex in Production; and he has shipped 9 iOS apps under his own Apple developer account. He publishes under the pen name Johnny Suede. Five USPTO provisional patent applications: 63/946,189, 63/946,192, 63/946,212, 63/946,217 and 63/947,120.
Books:
The Claude Code Bible ·
Codex in Production ·
Proof as Infrastructure ·
Stake Your Claim ·
The Human Authenticity Layer ·
The Screenshot (free at seo.suedeai.ai) ·
The Signal Chain (free at guitar.solutions)