In 1 year of Story mainnet:
โธ 5.6M+ IP registrations
โธ 90M+ transactions
โธ 13M+ onchain IP addresses
โธ 34k+ hours of real-world AI training data
โธ 405k+ data contributors worldwide
Happy 1 year anniversary, Story community.
In 2025, we built the foundation. Now we scale.
A cheat sheet for understanding Trace:
โธ Each Trace registration creates an auditable record
โธ Those records persist as data moves between parties
โธ It doesn't store underlying data
โธ The data is never public
Think of it as a ledger for data.
Real-world data comes from:
dog walks
night shifts
weather changes
cashiers
construction sites
background noise
street crossings
bad phone service
someone saying โwait what?โ
We are launching a mini-hackathon for our latest protocol feature: CDR ("Confidential Data Rails")
โ $3,000 prizes
โ only 1 week long
โ join with an existing project
Sign up below!
The Bengali community showed up.
Huge props for helping Numo reach its goal in this category โ
Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Vietnamese tasks are still open to contributors.
Open the app โ complete tasks โ contribute real-world data โ earn.
It's that simple.
Numo tasks are now live in Vietnamese.
Vietnam is one of the fastest-growing digital economies in the world, with millions of people working and communicating through mobile-first platforms every day.
But high-quality Vietnamese voice data is still limited across AI systems โ
The problem with AI data marketplaces is what happens after the first sale.
It's a value capture issue: high-signal data gets contributed, but platforms retain the full upside.
โ CDR changes that.
Datasets become composable, with licensing and conditional decryption built in.
CDR is live on testnet.
Now thereโs a place to start exploring whatโs possible.
If youโre building with sensitive data, weโre ready to support.
Get hands on with demos on private storage + encrypted data exchange โ
Bitcoin set the standard for digital value.
Weโre putting it to work for IP.
With @Lombard_Finance, BTC-backed infra is coming for collateral, payouts, and royalty enforcement.
CDR (confidential data rails) is an entirely new, general purpose onchain primitive for private data - invented by Story.
today it's now live on testnet.
tldr: you can now manage sensitive data onchain between parties who don't trust each other (different to ZK, read on)
CDR vs ZK:
ZK proves data exists, without revealing data, CDR focuses on controlling access to the data itself, ie who can use it and when. So they are perfectly complementary.
how it works:
under the hood, validators run specialized hardware (TEE), where they each hold pieces of a secret key, ensuring data stays encrypted and only unlocks when the right conditions are met.
what CDR unlocks:
> confidential AI inference without exposing models or queries
> encrypted data marketplaces with programmable access
> multi-party collaboration over sensitive datasets (think fraud detection, medical data, order books)
this is a key piece of infra to let AI run on precious, confidential information.
and CDR is live on testnet now! incredibly proud of the team that made this real.
come build on it.
AI made content infinite. Old systems are stuck playing catchup.
Enter @CopySightAI, building the missing layer for AI content risk.
CopySight flags legal risks โ Story protects IP, tracks attribution, and automates royalties โ A new system for AI content.
Try Story Skills, a framework for any AI agent.
โข Define agent-executable actions
โข Have your agents build onchain
โข Usable with Claude Code and beyond
Start building โ
Evaluating conversational voice datasets is more nuanced than it looks.
Thatโs why we created the Poseidon Score, a composite metric combining word accuracy, character accuracy, and semantic similarity to evaluate transcript quality across speech datasets.
We used it on a conversational Bengali dataset โ
Verse8 raised $5M in a seed round backed by Story Foundation, NEXPACE, Neowiz, MARBLEX, and NEXUS.
A stacked lineup of industry leaders strategically backing AI-native game creation.
The creation meta just changed.
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Word's out: @StoryProtocol uses Automata's DCAP Attestation to anchor the age of AI with hardware trust
Story's work on Confidential Data Rails and its AI-native stack, now secured by the physical integrity of the hardware.
Verifiable machines for AI: