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- First edition of the flagship institutional event, organized by Story in collaboration with Blockworks and the biggest financial media in Korea, Korea Economic Daily, challenges the world leaders of AI, IP and Crypto to explore IP as the basis of $ 80 $ $ 80.
- The first range of speakers highlights leaders and brains behind the world’s renowned IP phenomena of BTS and BlackPink in Aespa and Baby Shark. These include CEOs and the CEOs of Hybe, The Black Label, SM Entertainment, The Pinkfong Company and many others, while attracting managers of better crypto companies like Polygon and Animoca Brands and the best Wall Street companies such as Morgan Stanley and Grayscale.
Story, the world IP Blockchain, in collaboration with Blockworks and Korea Economic Daily (the largest group of financial media in Korea), announced today the inaugural summit, the flagship institutional event at the intersection of artificial intelligence, blockchain and intellectual property. The summit will take place on September 23, 2025, during the Korea of the Blockchain Week (KBW) in Seoul, and will bring together main voices through AI, blockchain and finance to explore the IP as the next evolution of AI.
Intellectual property (IP) is the backbone of global creativity, culture and innovation. IP covers everything, from training data and musical catalogs in AI to biotechnological patents, entertainment franchises and content generated by users. Valued at more than 80 billions of dollars, the IP is one of the most important and most important asset classes, but it remains fragmented, illicidable and largely invisible for the markets.
As artificial intelligence progresses, access to intellectual property verified and supported on rights becomes critical. Models need structured data, not scratched content, and native AI applications require an infrastructure that can draw, dismiss and monetize contributions in real time. Meanwhile, institutional capital is looking for the next wave of real assets, and the crypto goes from speculation to programmable property. IP is at the center of this convergence. Origin Summit brings together manufacturers, investors and cultural leaders unlocking the programmable IP economy, where AI, crypto and capital align around one of the most consecutive borders of the next decade.
Why Korea?
Few places on Earth to better capture the convergence of culture, capital and technology than South Korea. It houses one of the most common populations in the world, a booming creative intellectual property sector, a generalized adoption of digital assets and some of the most powerful industrial actors who advance the embodied AI.
- Exports of cultural intellectual property, including music, games, cinema and animation, reached $ 13.6 billion in 2024.
- IP exports have more than tripled over the past decade, reaching $ 9.85 billion.
- South Korea has the greatest number of paid chatgpt subscribers outside the United States, reflecting its adoption of AI in the world head. The weekly use has exploded (up 4.5 × in the past year), making it one of the most dynamic and warned markets in the world.
- Korea quickly emerges as the border of physical AI and robotics, with Samsung, LG, Hyundai and SK leading. It has the highest density of robots in the world (1,012 for 10,000 workers) and a robotics market increasing almost 15% per year, reinforced by the K-Humanoid alliance targeting advanced humanoids by 2028.
- The adoption of the crypto is increasing, 30% of the population (approximately 15.6 million people) actively investing in digital assets.
- South Korean exchanges are currently capturing almost 50% of the world volume of Altcoin trading.
- Coupled with a dynamic retail base ($ 663 billion in KRW trades compared to USD markets) and consolidated liquidity on platforms like Upbit and Bithumb, Korea has become a critical center for the innovation of digital assets.
- The national cryptography market has reached a value of 102 billions of ₩, with daily negotiation volumes up 20% in annual shift.
The global rise of K-Pop and K-Drama, as well as gaming giants like Lineage, MapleStory and PUBG, put the country in the spotlight as a global IP power. And with national champions like Samsung, LG, Hyundai and SK pushing the limits of an embodied and physical AI, Korea quickly becomes a global hub for innovation with a booming consumer market.
Vale 1 of experienced speakers and participants
From creators of BlackPink, BTS, Baby Shark and Lineage to the leaders of Morgan Stanley, in gray levels, and the founder of Pudgy Penguins and Abstract, Origin Summit meets pioneers through AI, IP, Culture and Finance.
This is only the beginning. The first unveiling focuses particularly on the leaders of the Korean intellectual property, but we will soon be followed by AI leaders, the other major theme of Summit origin. A full program and additional speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.
- Kyoung in JungCEO, The Black Label – Lecked founded by the executive producer of Blackpink and K -Pop Demon Hunter
- Ryan Seungkyu LeeCo-founder and EVP, The Pinkfong Company-Co-creator of Baby Shar
- Amy OldenburgResponsible for emerging market shares, Morgan Stanley Investment Management
- Lee SUNG-SOOCAD, SM Entertainment – largely credited like the creator of K -POP as a genre
- Jake Jaekyung SongCo-founder of Nexon and creator of Lineage, one of the most successful MMORPG franchises in the history of Korea.
- Rayhaneh Sharif-AskaryManaging Director, gray level investments
- Brandon YuPresident, Hybe Music Group APAC – Company behind BTS, Ariana Grande, seventeen, and more
- Luca NetzFounder and CEO, Pudgy Penguins and Igloo, Inc.
- Sunghwan ChoiPresident / COO, SK Networks – The 2nd largest conglomerate in Korea
- Yat SiuCo-founder and executive president, Animoca Brands
- Sandeep Nailwal, Co -founder, Polygon – The main solution to scal up Ethereum, fueling brands like Nike, Disney and Reddit
- Jangwon LeeFounder and CEO, Technologies content
Event logistics
Date: September 23, 2025
Location: Seoul, South Korea (during Korea of the Week Blockchain)
Format: Organized for institutional investors, intellectual property holders, IA manufacturers and cultural leaders
Website: www.originsummit.xyz
Registration: Limited capacity. Interested parties can request access via the event website.
Product by: History protocol, in collaboration with Blockworks and Korea Economic Daily
About the original summit
Origin Summit is the first institutional event at the intersection of AI, Blockchain, Finance and Intellectual Property. Hosted by Story, in collaboration with Blockworks and Hankyung Media Group, the Summit is delighted with the world leaders to define the infrastructure supplying the programmable IP economy. Taking up during the Korea Blockchain Week 2025 in Seoul, Origin Summit will explore how AI, crypto and convergent capital to unlock the most precious unexploited active class in the world.
About history
Supported with $ 136 million from A16Z, Polychain and Samsung Ventures, Story launched his Mainnet in February 2025 and quickly became the main blockchain infrastructure for token intellectual property. History is a blockchain specially designed to make intellectual property a programmable digital asset with integrated rights. It allows creators, developers, companies and AI laboratories to transform the media, data and content generated by AI into programmable and legally applicable digital assets, supplying use cases in AI, entertainment, robotics, etc. Designed for the scale, Story fills the gap between obsolete legal frameworks and the realities of the creation of the AI era, which makes it possible to follow the provenance, to automate licenses and to unlock new markets for ideas. As a foundation of $ IP’s evolution in a class of native assets on the Internet, Story fuels a more open, fair and component creative economy. Learn more about https://www.story.foundation.
About blockworks
Blockworks is an information platform at the center of the cryptography industry. We transform raw and complex data and facts in usable research, news of trust, information on Alpha and world -class events. The result is transparency and confidence. We allow investors, operators and institutions to see beyond noise, make better decisions and advance industry.
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