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.
Numbers Protocol
What is Numbers Protocol?
Numbers Protocol builds provenance infrastructure on its own Numbers blockchain. Its flagship ProofSnap camera app, free on iOS, writes GPS, timestamp and device data to a blockchain the moment you press the shutter and attaches a C2PA manifest to each photo or video, with no wallet or seed phrase. A ProofSnap browser extension captures full web pages with C2PA credentials, and the stack builds on open standards including C2PA 2.x and EIP-7053.
Numbers Protocol lists journalism, election integrity, evidence preservation and EU AI Act Article 50 labeling among its use cases, and offers a Capture API for developers adding C2PA labels and blockchain provenance.
Why Suede AI
Why do creators choose Suede AI over Numbers Protocol?
Any file, after the fact
Songs, stems, beats, lyrics, artwork, video, code, datasets and voice models all register the same way, whenever the work is finished.
People, not just devices
The claim records who contributed and what they declared, which is the question a label, publisher or licensee asks first.
Lineage for remixes
Derivatives are registered as their own works and linked on-chain to the parent.
Built for music
Suede AI IP Registry is the ID and trust layer for music: one record that distribution, streaming platforms and every derivative can point to.
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)