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.
Safe Creative
What is Safe Creative?
Safe Creative is an online registry for works and digital evidence. Its registration certificate covers authorship, date and integrity with a SHA-256 hash, three digital fingerprints and double timestamping, plus eIDAS qualified trust services and blockchain auditing where applicable. It also files trademarks, certifies digital facts such as web pages and emails, and says more than 800 organizations use it.
Safe Creative's catalog goes well past creative works: trademark registration with offices including the USPTO and EUIPO, certification of web pages, messages and emails, protection for trade secrets, and AI-use declarations and prompt logs.
Why Suede AI
Why do creators choose Suede AI over Safe Creative?
A cent, not a subscription
As of November 2026 a Suede AI record costs about a cent in network fees. Register every mix and every stem without counting credits.
A record nobody can quietly change
The record lives on public chains. Suede AI cannot edit or backdate it, and any explorer can show it.
Built around collaborators
Contributors and their shares go into the signed claim itself, which is how music actually gets made.
Derivatives that point home
Each remix or cover gets its own record, linked on-chain to the original.
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)