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Part 3: Retroactive Licensing → Turning Infringement into Opportunity

Part 3: Retroactive Licensing → Turning Infringement into Opportunity

This is Part Three of a three-part series on how Yakoa and Story are working together to make create an end-to-end system for IP management. With the speed of modern production and the growth of AI tools trained on large datasets, fragments of existing wo...

Yakoa • Aug 21, 2025

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Part 2: Finding the True Source of Original Works

Part 2: Finding the True Source of Original Works

This is Part Two of a three-part series on how Yakoa and Story are working together to make create an end-to-end system for IP management. Originality is not always easy to judge. Two works can look, sound, or read alike without one being derived from the...

Yakoa • Aug 15, 2025

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Part 1: Attestations, a Simple Way to Defend Originality

Part 1: Attestations, a Simple Way to Defend Originality

This is Part One of a three-part series on how Yakoa and Story are working together to create an end-to-end system for IP management. Intellectual property works best when anyone can access its value. Story makes this possible by allowing anyone to regist...

Yakoa • Aug 13, 2025

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Content Credentials & C2PA: The New Digital Trust Standard

Content Credentials & C2PA: The New Digital Trust Standard

At Yakoa, we are building the future of digital intellectual property, transforming how creators, brands, and platforms interact with content across the internet The digital world faces a crisis of authenticity, intensified by generative AI. How do we tru...

Yakoa • Aug 7, 2025

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Yakoa x Story

Yakoa x Story

The current intellectual property (IP) system struggles to keep pace with the digital age. As content floods the digital ecosystem, safeguarding original works and ensuring fair attribution presents various challenges. We, through Yakoa and Story, unite t...

Yakoa • Aug 5, 2025

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Provenance-Backed Content: The Digital Footprint of Trust

Provenance-Backed Content: The Digital Footprint of Trust

At Yakoa, we are building the future of digital intellectual property, transforming how creators, brands, and platforms interact with content across the internet. Our breakthrough insight came from the NFT ecosystem. In 2022, NFTs, supported by blockchain...

Yakoa • Jul 31, 2025

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Building Yakoa: The Fight to Fix Digital IP

Building Yakoa: The Fight to Fix Digital IP

At Yakoa, we are building the future of digital intellectual property, transforming how creators, brands, and platforms interact with content across the internet. The digital world is filled with infringement, deepfakes, and AI slop. Creators are robbed o...

Yakoa • Jul 28, 2025

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Enhancing Marketplace Authenticity: Yakoa Partners with Tensor

Enhancing Marketplace Authenticity: Yakoa Partners with Tensor

San Jose, CA, September 6th, 2023 — Yakoa, the AI-driven IP protection network, is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with Tensor, a leading NFT marketplace on the Solana network. This collaboration brings together two pioneers in the Web3 space...

Yakoa • Sep 6, 2023

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Bridging the Gap: Yakoa and Curvegrid Team Up for Blockchain Accessibility

Bridging the Gap: Yakoa and Curvegrid Team Up for Blockchain Accessibility

San Jose, CA, Tuesday, August 31st, 2023 — Yakoa, the AI-driven IP protection network, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Curvegrid, a leading blockchain technology company based out of Tokyo, Japan. This collaboration marries two frontrunn...

Yakoa • Aug 31, 2023

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Revolutionizing Web3 Community Operations: Yakoa Joins Forces with CharmVerse

Revolutionizing Web3 Community Operations: Yakoa Joins Forces with CharmVerse

San Jose, CA, Friday, August 25th, 2023 — Yakoa, the IP protection network on the blockchain, is thrilled to announce its strategic partnership with CharmVerse, the innovative web3 community operation platform. CharmVerse empowers its members to forge rel...

Yakoa • Aug 25, 2023

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Reinforcing Wine & Spirits NFT Marketplace Security: Yakoa Partners with BlockBar

Reinforcing Wine & Spirits NFT Marketplace Security: Yakoa Partners with BlockBar

San Jose, CA, August 15th, 2023 — Yakoa, a pioneer in AI-driven IP protection for blockchain, is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with BlockBar, a marketplace that maximizes blockchain technology by offering the highest quality wines and spiri...

Yakoa • Aug 15, 2023

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Revolutionizing Blockchain Security: Yakoa Partners with Spice AI

Revolutionizing Blockchain Security: Yakoa Partners with Spice AI

San Jose, CA, Friday, August 4th, 2023 — Yakoa, the leading force in AI-driven IP protection, is delighted to announce a strategic… Continue reading on Medium » ...

Yakoa • Aug 4, 2023

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Revolutionizing IoT Blockchain Security: Yakoa Partners with IoTeX

Revolutionizing IoT Blockchain Security: Yakoa Partners with IoTeX

San Jose, CA, Wednesday, July 19th, 2023 — Yakoa, the leading AI-driven IP protection network, is proud to announce a strategic… Continue reading on Medium » ...

Yakoa • Jul 20, 2023

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Securing Digital-Physical Asset Connections: Yakoa Joins Forces with jpnft

Securing Digital-Physical Asset Connections: Yakoa Joins Forces with jpnft

San Jose, CA, Tuesday, July 11, 2023 — Yakoa, the IP protection network, is excited to announce a strategic partnership with jpnft, a… Continue reading on Medium » ...

Yakoa • Jul 11, 2023

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NFT Provenance

NFT Provenance

Provenance: the history of ownership of a valued object or work of art or literature. - Webster’s Dictionary Continue reading on Medium » ...

Yakoa • May 4, 2023

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What Does It Mean To Be An NFT?

What Does It Mean To Be An NFT?

When people hear the term NFT (non-fungible token), they often think of Bored Apes owned by celebrities like Tom Brady or Steve Aoki. Or… Continue reading on Medium » ...

Yakoa • Apr 29, 2023

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Using AI To Mislead — The Future Of Deepfakes & Plagiarism

Using AI To Mislead — The Future Of Deepfakes & Plagiarism

Fake news is nothing new. Continue reading on Medium » ...

Yakoa • Apr 24, 2023

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The Yakoa Story

The Yakoa Story

NFTs have revolutionized how we think about artwork and ownership. Continue reading on Medium » ...

Yakoa • Apr 8, 2023

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Yakoa raises $4.8M to combat intellectual property fraud in Web3

Yakoa raises $4.8M to combat intellectual property fraud in Web3

Collab+Currency, Volt Capital, and Brevan Howard Digital led the round, with backing from Alliance DAO, Uniswap Labs Ventures, Orange DAO… Continue reading on Medium » ...

Yakoa • Nov 15, 2022

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