Autonomys is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Ringfence. As both projects approach launch, we are exploring integrations between Ringfence’s data provenance and content verification solutions and Autonomys’ distributed storage network (DSN) and data availability (DA) layers. This collaboration will soon provide creators using the Autonomys Network with dynamic digital asset management tools that will facilitate copyright compliance and ownership verification, and offer new methods of content monetization via Ringfence NFTs (rNFTs). rNFTs represent a collection of multiple digital assets called component NFTs (cNFTs), and enable creators to protect, license and monetize their assets.

Key Aspects of the Partnership

• Content Verification: Ringfence screens all user-specified content uploaded to its platform for any international copyright, trademark and IP infringement, regardless of whether the content is AI or user-generated. Our partnership will thus ensure all AI training data on Autonomys’ future Proof-of-Training domain is fairly sourced.
• Digital Provenance: Metadata tagging tracks and permanently records the details, history, origin and creators of digital assets verified on Escher, the Ringfence creator platform. This data provenance ensures AI-generated works can be transparently traced to the original works from which they are derived, and the creators can be compensated. Autonomys’ DSN and DA layers present the ideal solution to Ringfence’s needs for cryptographic ownership of data and accessible permanent storage for asset management metadata.
• Enforceable End-User Agreements: Creators can easily use smart contracts to specify any usage terms and compensation for their digital works on Escher, including parameters for when and how others can and cannot use their work, and their method of compensation. These smart contracts will soon be interoperable with Autonomys’ decoupled execution domain layer.

Community Benefits

As well as streamlining IP management for creators, rNFTs’ bundling of IP under one smart contract will be vital to Autonomys’ future Proof-of-Training domain. All new digital assets, profiles, dApps and IP registered on the Autonomys DSN using the forthcoming Ringfence API can be logged and verified on-chain. The ability for creators to easily license their work and set specific terms for its usage, sharing and modification greatly enhances their capacity for monetization, and allows for the authorized generation of AI derivatives.

“Our partnership with Autonomys is a game-changer for creators. By combining Ringfence’s data provenance and authentication technology with Autonomys’ infrastructure, we’re enabling creators to protect, verify, and monetize their work seamlessly for a more equitable AI-creator ecosystem.” Whitney Gibbs, CEO/Co-founder at Ringfence

“Our partnership with Ringfence will soon allow creators on Autonomys to safely monetize their content for machine learning via rNFTs, ensuring a fair and transparent AI training ecosystem for the future creator economy.” Labhesh Patel, CEO at Autonomys

About Ringfence

Ringfence, the data monetization layer for AI, is building Escher, a comprehensive web3 creator platform simplifying the management, monetization and authentication of digital assets. Ringfence NFTs (rNFTs) enable creators to protect their work from unauthorized use in the AI era, while allowing them to participate in Ringfence’s long-term goal of building the first neural network trained on 100% authorized work.

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About Autonomys Network

The Autonomys Network is a highly scalable decentralized AI (deAI) infrastructure stack encompassing secure distributed storage and compute, decentralized consensus, and suite of tooling for the development and deployment of verifiable super dApps and dAgents. The first primitive being built in the Auto Suite is our decentralized identity protocol Autonomys ID (Auto ID).

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