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.
Story Protocol
What is Story Protocol now?
Story Protocol launched as a Layer 1 blockchain for registering intellectual property as on-chain assets, with open-source modules for licensing and royalties. On June 25, 2026 it became The DATA Foundation, moved its focus to AI training data, and launched Trace, an on-chain registry for training-data provenance and licensing. Its IP token migrates one-to-one to a new DATA token, and story.foundation now redirects to datafdn.org. The protocol-core-v1 repository states that Story's Proof-of-Creativity contracts were deprecated on September 19, 2026 and that the IP Portal and related services shut down on October 15, 2026. Deployed contracts stay on chain without a team supporting them.
The DATA Foundation's own site describes Trace as issuing a tamper-proof receipt for each contributed record, with provenance, licensing, contributor payments and audits running on DATA's rails. The protocol-core-v1 repository now tells developers not to start new integrations with the Proof-of-Creativity code and to plan a migration.
Why Suede AI
Why do creators choose Suede AI over Story Protocol?
A registry that kept its job
Suede AI IP Registry is the ID and trust layer for music. Its whole purpose is a public record for finished creative work, and that is still what it does.
Every contributor on the record
The signed claim lists each collaborator and a rights declaration, so a co-writer or producer is part of the record from day one.
Remixes keep their lineage
A remix, cover, sample or AI-assisted version is registered as its own work and linked on-chain to its parent.
No token to buy first
Signing up creates a smart wallet for you, with no seed phrase and 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)