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.
Bernstein
What is Bernstein?
Bernstein has offered blockchain certificates for intellectual property since 2016. Files are encrypted in the browser, a cryptographic fingerprint goes onto the Bitcoin blockchain, and each new version's certificate builds on the one before it. Scale and Enterprise plans add an EU qualified timestamp and a Chinese trusted timestamp, and anyone can verify an exported certificate without Bernstein.
Bernstein pitches itself to organizations and IP teams, with trade secrets among its listed use cases, and keeps the file itself private through client-side encryption.
Why Suede AI
Why do creators choose Suede AI over Bernstein?
Register the whole session
At about a cent per record as of November 2026, every bounce, stem and alternate take can have its own fingerprint.
Credits travel with the work
The wallet-signed claim lists contributors and a rights declaration, so the people behind a track are part of the record.
Two public chains
Records sit on Base and Avalanche mainnet with identical contract bytecode, and anyone can check them without asking Suede AI.
Two minutes, no setup
Sign-up creates a smart wallet for you. No seed phrase, nothing to install.
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)