The Good Tech Companies - Moonbirds and Azuki IP Coming To Verse8 as AI-Native Game Platform Integrates With Story

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/moonbirds-and-azuki-ip-coming-to-verse8-as-ai-native-game-platform-integrates-with-story. Story will serve as the licensing infrastructure, registering and managing IP usage on its Layer-1 network. Verse8 enables users to generate multiplayer 2D and Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #web3, #story, #chainwire, #press-release, #blockchain-development, #ai, #tokenization-of-rwas, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @chainwire. Learn more about this writer by checking @chainwire's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Story, a blockchain platform for intellectual property, and Verse8, an AI-powered game creation tool, today announced a collaboration. Story will serve as the licensing infrastructure, registering and managing IP usage on its Layer-1 network. Verse8 enables users to generate multiplayer 2D and 3D games through natural language prompts without requiring coding.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Moonbirds and Izuki IP coming to Verse 8 as AI native game platform integrates with Story, by Chainwire. Seoul, South Korea, September 23, 2025, Chainwire, Story, a blockchain platform for intellectual property, and Verse 8, an AI-powered game creation tool, today announced a collaboration to bring Moonbirds and Suzuki IP Intauser generated games on the Verse 8 platform. Story will serve as the licensing infrastructure, registering and managing IP usage on its layer one network. Verse 8 enables users to generate multiplayer 2D and 3D games through natural language prompts without requiring coding. The platform uses proprietary technology to produce 3D assets from a single image. Despite being in beta, Verse 8 reports thousands of creators and more than 800,000 monthly active users. By integrating with Stories' programmable licensing system, content created in Verse 8, such as characters, quests, and environments, can be registered on chain with attribution and revenue-sharing mechanisms for IP holders and creators.

As part of the collaboration, Moonbirds and Azuki collections will be available within Verse 8's a I-driven builder. Creators will be able to customize these IPs, incorporate them into new game environments, and monetize content through in-game purchases and branded expansions. Revenue distribution will be handled via programmable royalties recorded OnStories blockchain. The partnership will debut at Origin Summit in Seoul on September 23, 2025. In the coming months, users will be able to launch community-made games featuring Moonbirds and Azuki characters through Verse 8. Verse 8 was co-created by Jake Song, co-founder of Nexon and developer of lineage, a leading MMORPGIP.

The platform is supported by Planetarium Labs and Industry Partners. The collaboration with Story introduces licensed IP into AI-generated game environments with clear attribution and licensing rules enforced through smart contracts. To showcase the power of this model, Verse 8 will provide support for two of Web 3's most iconic IPs, Moonbirds and Azuki. Both collections will be registered in Story, and their IP will be natively available inside Verse 8's a I-driven game builder. Players can remix, customize, and build with these IPs as IP Legos, assembling characters, quests, and game mechanics using the familiar building blocks of beloved on-chain brands. Game creators can monetize their worlds through in-game purchases or branded expansions, with revenue automatically split between the creator, the original NFT holder, and the brand,

IP owners via programmable royalties. For example, a player could design an Azuki-themed cyberpunk battle arena with custom aviative and lore, then offer premium content like exclusive weapons or missions, while ensuring a share of that revenue flows back to Azuki's creator Sand NFT holders. This marks the first-time IP holders of these NFT collections can seamless library their IP into an interactive gaming format, with all usage rights, attributions, and revenue shares enforced via smart contracts on story in the future. The partnership will debut at Origin Summit in Seoul on September 23, 2025, in the coming months. Users will be able to launch community-made games featuring Moonbirds and Azuki characters powered by Verse 8's AI engine and stories on chain licensing system.

Building the future of IP-native games Verse 8 represents a breakthrough in how IP can be activated and extended across user-generated gaming experiences. With zero-code interfaces and real-time rendering, players can build expansive game worlds, storylines, and playable quests simply by describing them in natural language. By integrating with story, all IP used in these environments becomes traceable, licensable, and governed by clear on-chain rules. The platform joins a growing ecosystem of story-powered applications, including ARIA, music IP as real-world assets, Poseidon, AI training data layer, and the IP portal, cementing Story's role as the programmable IP layer for the AI era. Integration of AI, IP, and on-chain licensing the collaboration between Verse 8 and Story.

reflects broader developments in digital entertainment and intellectual property. Intellectual property is recognized as one of the largest global asset classes but is often difficult toll license and manage across platforms. Advances in artificial intelligence increase the demand for verified, writes cleared content, while blockchain infrastructure enables automated attribution and royalty distribution. By using Story's programmable licensing system, assets created in Verse 8 can be registered, attributed and governed in chain, providing clarity for creators and IP holders. Greater than S.Y. Lee, co-founder, story, IP isn't meant to sit still. With programmable greater

than infrastructure, it becomes interactive, remixable, and composable and ready greater than for world where culture is built by communities and powered by agents. Greater than Verse 8 shows what this future looks like. A platform where anyone can create greater than multiplayer games using the IP they love, with on-chain rails that respect greater than rights, trace value, and unlock new markets. Greater than Kevin Lee, CEO, Verse 8. Story gives us the missing layer we needed, trusted greater than licensing infrastructure that works in real time, at scale, for user-generated greater than content. With Story, every interaction in Verse 8, whether it's remixing greater than characters, building quests, or sharing games, can now respect rights, share greater than value,

and evolve IP organically. It's not just content creation, it's greater than IP native world building. Greater than Spencer Gordon Sand, CEO of Moonbirds. Moonbirds is such a strong IP. Our greater than community is full of forward-thinking technologists, many of whom have been at greater than the forefront of AI. We are one of the few brands who immediately and actively greater than leaned into the AI wave we see shaping how IP grows and is utilized in the greater than coming years. We are excited to see verse 8 expand the way that our community greater than can engage with the IP they co-own alongside us and use the platform to greater than further expand its growth and utilization. Greater than Zagabond, founder of Azuki, CEO, Chiru Labs. Azuki has always

believed in greater than empowering our community to co-create stories. With verse 8 in story, that greater than vision continues to be realized. Fans can now build entire playable worlds greater than with Zuki IP on-chain, and I'm excited to see the endless possibilities greater than created from the community. About Story Story is a L-A-Y-E-R-1 blockchain purpose built to make intellectual property programmable. Backed by $136 million from a 16-Z, Polychain, and Samsung Ventures, Story launched its mainnet in early 2025 and has quickly become a letting infrastructure for tokenized IP. The network enables creators, developers, enterprises, and AI Labs to register content as on-chain assets with embedded rights, turning media, data, undi-generated works into

legally enforceable digital property. By bridging the gap between outdated legal frameworks and the realities of the AI era, Story makes it possible to track provenance, automate licensing, and unlock new markets for ideas. As the foundation for IP's evolution into an internet native asset class, story powers a more open, equitable, and composable creative economy. About verse 8 verse 8 is a full eye-powered game creation platform that allows anyone to build, publish, and share high-quality 2D and 3D multiplayer games using simple natural language prompts. With a cloud native engine and an intelligent generative agent, agent 8 inches, handling code, art, and audio, verse 8 removes traditional development barriers and enables rapid, on-demand game creation. Users can transform

ideas in to playable games within minutes, all directly in a web browser. Launched in 2025 by Planetarium Labs and Industry Veterans, Verse 8 is pioneering the next generation of user-generated games, where creativity is the only limit and no coding or installation is required. By providing integrated publishing and monetization tools, Verse 8 empowers a new wave of developers and communities to participate in the gaming economy like never before. About Azuki Labs, Azuki is a brand born at the intersection of art, technology, and internet culture. What started as a Web 3 project has evolved into a global community of artists and builders shaping original characters, stories, and experiences together. From digital collectibles to fashion and real-world events, Azuki is building a universe for

digital natives drawn to what's next. Learn more ATWWW. Azuki, com, about Moonbirds, Moonbirds is a premier digital brand now growing under Orange Cap Games. With its instantly recognizable art and devoted community, Moonbirds is expanding Ginto games, storytelling, and live events. With a In 24 hours of launching ITS first collectibles under OCG, Moonbirds generated $1.7M in sales, a signal of both cultural resonance and commercial potential. Orange Cap Games is building on this momentum to unlock new IP opportunities, cross-media partnerships, and long-term value creation across digital and physical platforms. Learn more at Moonbirds.com. Contact head of communications HV.V.S. at PIPLabs. XYZ This story was

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