Lombard and Story are forming a strategic alliance to power the creator economy through intellectual property and programmable IP innovation.
Bitcoin DeFi platform Lombard and Layer-1 blockchain Story announced a strategic partnership to transform how creators protect and monetise their work. The collaboration combines Lombard’s Bitcoin finance infrastructure with Story’s decentralised IP network, enabling creators to access faster, transparent, and borderless financial systems secured by Bitcoin.
Story tokenises creative works such as copyrights, data, and media assets. By integrating with Lombard’s Bitcoin infrastructure, creators can now receive payments, collateralise assets, and transact globally using BTC.
“Access to the global IP economy shouldn’t depend on geography or intermediaries. By integrating Lombard’s Bitcoin infrastructure, Story enables creators and developers to license, settle, and secure IP value instantly and globally,” said SY Lee, CEO and Co-Founder of Story.
“Bitcoin’s neutrality and permanence make it one of the most efficient stores of value for intellectual property, aligning the world’s creative capital with its strongest monetary network.”
The partnership allows Story to leverage Lombard’s infrastructure to offer Bitcoin revenue distribution and crypto-economic IP security within its ecosystem.
“The creator economy has lacked financial rails built for scale, and Bitcoin provides that foundation,” said Jacob Phillips, Co-Founder of Lombard. “This partnership allows creators to monetise IP using Bitcoin while introducing the first Bitcoin-backed economic guarantees for digital assets.”
The alliance holds particular significance for Korea’s rapidly expanding creator economy, valued at US$13.6 billion in cultural IP exports in 2024. Following Story’s onboarding of major Korean IPs, the integration with Lombard positions both firms at the centre of Korea’s digital-asset and entertainment markets.
Together, Lombard and Story aim to redefine the creator economy’s financial infrastructure, connecting IP monetisation, blockchain technology, and Bitcoin-backed value distribution on a global scale.
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