The Good Tech Companies - Seoul Exchange Will Exclusively Use Story To Settle Tokenized RWAs

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/seoul-exchange-will-exclusively-use-story-to-settle-tokenized-rwas. The collaboration will focus on tokenizing Korean content IP, including K-pop royalties, K-drama rights, webtoons, games, and patents. Notable IP already regist 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, #crypto-exchange, #mass-adoption, #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. Seoul Exchange and Story Protocol have entered into an agreement to build Korea’s first dedicated blockchain exchange for tokenized cultural and intellectual property assets. The collaboration will focus on tokenizing Korean content IP, including K-pop royalties, K-drama rights, webtoons, games, and patents. Notable IP already registered on Story includes BLACKPINK, BTS, Psy, and Pinkfong.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Seoul Exchange will exclusively use Story to settle tokenized RWA's. By Chainwire, Seoul, South Korea, September 22, 2025, Chainwire, partnership set to bring programmable assets to Korea's $450 billion crypto market, the world's second-largest trading volume strategic collaboration to bring all of Seoul exchanges trading activity for tokenized assets on Story. Soul Exchange, one of only two licensed platforms for trading unlisted securities, will be choosing Stories blockchain as an exclusive infrastructure partner focused on real-world assets, RWA's, unlocking a new class of compliant, investable digital securities. For the first three

years, Soul Exchange will use Stories Layer 1 blockchain as the exclusive infrastructure for registering and settling tokenized assets. Transactions will be powered by Story's native token, dollar IP, creating a fully on-chain marketplace for previously illiquid cultural and financial assets. The collaboration will focus on tokenizing Korean content IP, including K-pop royalties, K-drama rights, webtoons, games, and patents, making these global cultural phenomena investable for the first time. Notable IP already registered on story includes Blackpink, BTS, SIE, and Pinkfong, Baby Shark. Soul Exchange and Story Protocol have entered into an to Bill Korea's first dedicated blockchain exchange for tokenized cultural and intellectual

property assets. The collaboration outlines how Seoul Exchange will launch a regulated RWA trading platform powered entirely by Story's blockchain infrastructure for the next three years. Seoul Exchange is a fintech company that provides brokerage services for unlisted stocks of startups and venture companies through its unlisted securities trading platform, Seoul Exchange. It is one of only two platforms officially selected by the Korean government tupor it under the financial regulatory sandbox. Seoul Exchange has received investment from leading Korean and global VCs such as hashed, softbank ventures, capstone partners, and POSCO technology investment.

Under the agreement, Seoul Exchange will use Story as the sole infrastructure provider for registering and settling tokenized offerings. For an initial term three years, all listings on the exchange ranging from music IP and Webtoons, tow patents and private securities, will be recorded on Stories Network. leveraging its composable architecture and native dollar IP token economy. IP is expected to become Korea's leading real-world asset, R-W-A, category, with Story positioned as the exclusive chain for Seoul exchanges IP tokenization. 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 leading infrastructure for tokenized IP. Korea is home to some of the world's most successful creative exports, but monetizing IP remains limited to insiders. This new trading platform aims to change that by bringing IP on-chain, Story and Soul Exchange are unlocking a new class a fractional, transparent, and globally accessible digital securities. Global IPIs valued at over $80 trillion, yet most of it remains ill. liquid and inaccessible. This partnership aims to unlock IP and other real-world assets, RW as, via blockchain, allowing global investors to own, trade, and earn from high-value creative

works. Korean storytellers have captured the world's imagination. Global hits like K-pop Demon Hunter became Netflix's most popular film of all time with 236 million views in the first nine weeks. Parasite won best picture at the Oscars. Squid Game became Netflix's most watched show. Baby Shark is a global phenomenon, but behind this success lies a structural problem. Creators rarely retain ownership or share in the long-term upside. Platforms like Netflix own the IP. Studios operate on thin margins. Even as Korean content goes global, the value flows elsewhere. This imbalance has sparked growing debate in Korea, with many voices calling for a new model that allows creators to break free from reliance on upfront financing and pre-production deals.

Story is introducing such an alternative through content tokenization. By enabling global fans to directly participate in fundraising, production companies can retain ownership of their IP and instead engage in distribution agreements that ensure fairer and more sustainable revenue models. This approach not only protects creators' rights but also opens the door to a new, fan-driven economy and entertainment. The platform will combine retail accessibility with institutional-grade compliance under Korean regulations. Should a Korean one-pegged stable coin be approved by regulators, the platform is designed to support

its integration it may be integrated for native currency settlement, further aligning with domestic financial infrastructure. Tokenized content, including music rights, game universes, can be listed and traded by retail and institutional investors alike, all within Korea's evolving STO regulatory sandbox. Story Protocol is the world's first layer one blockchain purpose built for IP. Ittenables IP to be registered, licensed and monetized in real time, embedding royalties and usage terms directly into the tokenized representation of creative assets. Backed by investors including a 16z, polychain, hashed and Samsung Ventures, Story launched its mainnet in early 2025 and has already rapidly expanded its ecosystem and onboarded a diverse music collectives, Defy Protocols, and Global Entertainment IPs. For example, Story has already begun tokenized.

major K-Culture IP, including the music rights of leading K-pop artists, BTS, Blackpink, Sae, Big Bang, and global artists. Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus, Seoul exchanges integration makes story the de facto infrastructure for Korea's next wave of tokenized RWA's, positioning it as the blockchain gateway for cultural capital. This partnership bridges Korea's booming cultural industries with the world's capital markets. The platform will prioritize assets with strong fan engagement and and long-term value potential, and will also support future integrations with financial products,

remix licenses, and governance layers, bringing programmability top-reviously static IP rights. Quotes from leadership greater than J.D. Yang, CEO, Seoul Exchange. Through this collaboration, Seoul Exchange has greater than further strengthened the stability and trust in the process of building are greater than Santo Exchange. We aim to become Korea's leading Santo Exchange through a greater than differentiated tokenization model centered on IP and content. Greater than Sung Yun, Sai, Li, co-founder and CEO, Story Protocol. We see this as a greater than landmark step in making Korea's world-class cultural IP accessible to global greater than investors.

Story enables creators and platforms like Seoul Exchange to go greater than beyond traditional licensing models to build liquidity, loyalty, and greater than monetization around programmable IP. Intellectual property is the largest greater than untapped acid class in the world, worth over $80 trillion, and with Korea now greater than the second largest crypto trading market in the world, the opportunity to greater than pioneer new asset classes is massive. This partnership brings us one step greater than closer to unlocking that value at global scale. With this move, story will be greater than one of only two chains powering RWAs in Korea, the second largest

crypto greater than market in the world, confirming IP's place at the center of Korea's next greater than blockchain growth cycle. About Story Story is a layer one blockchain purpose built to make intellectual property programmable. Backed by $136 million from a 16Z, 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, and I 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 rips evolution into an internet native asset class, story powers a more open, equitable, and composable creative economy. Contact head of communications HV story Henri. Vise at PIP Labs, XYZ this story was published as a press release by Chainwire under Hackernoon's business blogging program. Do your own research before making any financial decision. Thank you for listening to this Hackernoon story, read by artificial intelligence. Visit hackernoon.com to read, write, learn and publish.