The Big Bang Block is here!

At block 1,580,851, token emissions on Story have officially begun.

Story’s time-weighted staking model, inspired by DeFi mechanics, incentivizes community members that are here for the long-term.

Details ↴ Staking secures the Story blockchain and fuels the future of IP.

With token emissions now live, each block distributes 1.9477989871 IP tokens, totaling 55,555 IP per day at a 3-second block time.

Just for you 🫴 a Story Ecosystem starter pack.

From DeFi and IPFi, to AI tools, consumer apps, AI agents, games, and Sci-Fi franchises, the Story Ecosystem's got range.

Dive into a rundown of apps live on Mainnet, and stay tuned for more coming soon from the full lineup ↴ DeFi & IPFi Apps on Story Mainnet ↴

• Bridge @StargateFinance @deBridgeFinance
• Swap @PiperxProtocol @0xStoryHunt
• Stake @verio_story @meta_pool
• Memecoins @ipdotworld @Spotlight_IP
• Lend and borrow @UnleashProtocol
• Real-time activity feed @CieloFinance

Our Technical Roadmap is Live!

Story is committed to driving continuous improvements to L1 performance, reliability, and decentralization.

And built on top of our L1 infrastructure is a unique stack of IP-focused product features and applications.

Dive in ↴ There are two major technical releases in 2025:

1. Late Q1/Early Q2: Product Release
2. Q3: Comprehensive Network Upgrade

Let's unpack each of our two releases.

🖤💗 BLACKPINK x STORY 💗🖤

@Aria_Protocol is tokenizing sensational K-pop IP:

➤ Yeah Yeah Yeah by BLACKPINK
➤ Ready For Love by BLACKPINK
➤ & more below..

With IP RWAs, you can listen (and dance) to your portfolio. Why the music of BLACKPINK? They were the first female K-pop group to:

➤ Win a VMA
➤ Headline Coachella
➤ Top the Billboard 200
➤ Reach 1 billion views on a YouTube video
➤ Surpass Justin Bieber's subscriber count on YouTube

Homer, our Public Mainnet, is live.

Welcome to a new era of ꧁IP꧂

Learn more ↴ The rise of AI demands a scalable IP solution that empowers both IP holders and AI products alike.

Enter Story: A L1 blockchain that's purpose-built to reinvent the $61T IP asset class.

Our Public Mainnet marks first-ever instantiation of a global, programmable market for IP.

Introducing $IP, the native token of Story's L1!

In the age of AI, $IP will play a critical role in tokenizing the $61T IP asset class.

58.4% of $IP will be devoted to Ecosystem & Community, Foundation, and Initial Incentives.

More on ꧁IP꧂👇 AI is transforming the $61T asset class of IP — from science to creative works.

The current IP system cannot scale to meet the explosion of intelligence that AI powers.

Story's Peer-to-Peer IP Network unleashes the latent value of IP, allowing ideas to be monetized seamlessly.

The financial crisis inspired Bitcoin, a Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash Network.

The rise of AI demands Story, a Peer-to-Peer Intellectual Property Network.

The Story whitepaper is out! More below ⬇️ Story's Layer 1 is powered by an innovative multi-core execution environment.

A main execution core coordinates several specialized execution cores.

Each specialized execution core is optimized for specific requirements such as speed, scalability, or privacy.

Calling all Odyssey Badge Holders!

Grab your Commemorative ꧁IP꧂ Community NFT, which celebrates our community's journey during our Odyssey Testnet.

Can’t grab this one? Don’t worry, we'll have more moments to celebrate!

Got badges? This moment is for you⬇️

- Mushy Using over 100 pieces of ꧁IP꧂ from the community during the Odyssey Testnet, this Commemorative ꧁IP꧂ Community NFT celebrates the incredible contributions that have helped us grow and shine. If you see your artwork featured, celebrate it!

While we plan to create more opportunities for the wider community in the future, this one is dedicated to our Odyssey Badge Holders.

Thank you for being a part of the Odyssey!

Introducing Agent TCP/IP:

An experimental framework that lets agents trade IP with each other.

Agents can now exchange their training data, creative style, investment strategies, and more, ushering in an intelligence economy. 👇 We will integrate with @ai16zdao 's Eliza, @0xzerebro 's ZerePy, @crossmint 's GOAT, and @virtuals_io 's GAME to ensure that all agents can trade IP.

Read the latest version of our Agent TCP/IP whitepaper here!

story.foundation/atcpip

1/ Announcing $140M in total fundraising to build Story, the World’s IP Blockchain. 2/ Intellectual property (IP) is one of the world’s biggest asset classes.

Training data, AI models, memes, UGC videos, game assets, character traits and more are all IP.

Everything is IP.

Introducing Story Network, the World's IP Blockchain.

Story L1 enshrines the Proof of Creativity protocol, tokenizing a multi-trillion dollar asset class into Programmable IP legos

In the era of AI-powered creativity, Story is powering an IP legoland👇 IP is a multi-trillion dollar asset class. But what is IP?

Pepe is IP. AI models are IP. Beyonce's voice and likeness are IP. A blueprint for a new invention is IP. Mickey Mouse is IP. A Fortnite skin is IP.

IP is everywhere, but it's locked & trapped behind closed platforms.

The Story Protocol SDK allows you to contribute to the programmable IP layer in Javascript + Python.

Here are some of the most common functions 🧵 0. Setting up the SDK

Before we dive into any functions, you must properly set up the Story Client! This will work for both backend (ex. Node.js) & frontend (w/ Metamask) applications.

🟨 Javascript:
🐍 Python: docs.storyprotocol.xyz/docs/typescrip…
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