[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, October 14th, 2025]

City Protocol is creating a decentralized protocol focused on building a capital market infrastructure for intellectual property (IP). The initiative aims to bring IP on-chain, thereby increasing accessibility and liquidity in this asset class, alongside tools for IP verification, financing, and scalable growth.

In existing capital markets, companies like Apple and Tesla illustrate how obtaining early-stage capital can facilitate sustained growth into massively valuable enterprises. Conversely, IP, despite being one of the most valuable assets, has typically been constrained by royalties, licensing deals, and fragmented ownership. For instance, Disney showcases the immense value generated by IP when backed by robust capital infrastructure.

City Protocol addresses this disparity by proposing an on-chain IP capital market to allow creators to tokenize their IP from inception, encouraging community participation and decentralized capital access.

Launched with support from Web3-focused investors, City Protocol aims to create a comprehensive ecosystem consisting of IP verification, financing tools, launchpads, and the infrastructure required to accelerate IP-based projects on-chain.

What is City Protocol

City Protocol is a decentralized IP protocol committed to releasing cultural and narrative assets from closed networks, allowing them to enter the on-chain capital market where they can be liquid, scalable, and universally accessible.

In conventional frameworks, the growth of IP relies heavily on centralized platforms. Creators become subject to various constraints imposed by these platforms, often stifling creativity and distributing value disproportionately to intermediaries. City Protocol aims to disrupt this cycle through the on-chain capital market logic:

• Disintermediated issuance: Tokenization can begin from Day 1, immediately integrating into liquidity markets for valuation and funding.
• Community co-creation: Supporters transform from mere consumers into co-owners of the IP, growing in tandem and sharing in its success.
• Cultural assetization: Creativity matures into a financialized cultural asset that can be traded, combined, and expanded.

This framework fosters the full lifecycle of IP through three pivotal stages: birth, growth, and maturity, each addressing specific challenges and market needs.

Team and Backing

The team behind City Protocol merges crypto-native expertise with strong traditional entertainment and finance backgrounds. They come from notable Web3 initiatives such as Animoca, The Sandbox, and Dapper Labs, plus traditional institutions like HSBC and LVMH. This diverse experience enables City Protocol to bridge on-chain innovation with established real-world connections.

Financially, the protocol enjoys backing from prominent investors like Jump Trading, Dragonfly, and CMT Digital, which provides solid capital support for creating its IP ecosystem.

Core Product Ecosystem

City Protocol’s infrastructure encompasses the entire process of IP assetization through four primary components:

1. IP Verification Layer – Validates authenticity and copyright ownership on-chain, fostering trust among creators, communities, and investors.
2. IP RWA (IP Strategy) – Promotes financing and liquidity for early-stage and established IPs, enabling value sharing from the get-go.
3. AI + Growth Scaling Engine – Utilizes tools like City ID and Viral City to enhance IP impact, foster viral distribution, and transition virtual IPs into physical brands.
4. Launchpad – A transparent and equitable platform for IP project’s issuance and trading, upholding creator rights and guaranteeing access to funding.

In unison, these modules create a full-stack on-chain ecosystem that encompasses incubation, growth, distribution, and governance, allowing various stakeholders to collaboratively engage in and benefit from the cultural asset growth process.

Future Outlook: Unlocking Infinite Potential for the IP Market

If DeFi has transitioned capital markets on-chain, City Protocol’s ambition is to bring culture and narrative onto the blockchain. For creators, this brings unprecedented empowerment; they can launch, fund, and cultivate their IPs across community engagement, dissolving the constraints of traditional platforms. Supporters can now act as genuine stakeholders in cultural assets, transforming from passive consumers to active participants.

As a transformative step in how IPs are perceived, City Protocol envisions a departure from closed systems to open, opaque to programmable, and isolated value to composable capital markets. This framework facilitates the evolution of IPs from mere content to financialized cultural assets, unlocking an entirely new market of possibilities.

By converting ideas into capitalized cultural assets, City Protocol allows every community member to engage actively as a co-creator of value, offering a fresh beginning for the on-chain cultural capital market.