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Best of 2025: Building a Modern IP Infrastructure and Protecting Creators in the AI Age (Andrea Muttoni - President Story Foundation)

Dec 30, 2025

Andrea Muttoni, President of the Story Foundation and former Amazon product manager, shares his journey from music production to blockchain innovation. He discusses the mission of Story Protocol, which aims to simplify intellectual property registration and licensing using blockchain technology. Muttoni introduces the Programmable IP License, ensuring transparent rights for creators, and unveils Poseidon, a marketplace for sourcing IP-cleared data to support AI training. His insights highlight how blockchain can reshape copyright in the AI era, securing fair compensation for creators.

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From Bedroom Producer To Tech Founder

Andrea Muttoni started as a bedroom hip-hop producer and taught himself programming using C++ for Dummies.
He co-founded a small agency that built full-stack apps and mixed art with tech before moving to larger companies.

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Internship Turned Long Amazon Career

Andrea accepted an Amazon internship after a professor suggested candidates and automated manual Kindle processes.
His automation work scaled into product roles and led to relocation and long-term career growth at Amazon.

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Joining Dapper To Learn Crypto Firsthand

Andrea joined Dapper Labs to directly learn about crypto after being skeptical but curious.
He picked Dapper because its mainstream hits (CryptoKitties, NBA Top Shot) made it the best place to understand real consumer blockchain use.

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One of the most listened to episodes in 2025 featured a conversation with Andrea Muttoni, President of Story Protocol. The discussion explores how blockchain technology is being used as a foundational infrastructure for intellectual property (IP), aiming to simplify and modernize the process of registration, licensing, and monetization for creators and IP owners. Muttoni details his journey from a bedroom music producer to a product manager at Amazon and eventually to a leader in the blockchain industry, driven by a passion for the intersection of technology and creativity.

The conversation delves into the core problems Story Protocol aims to solve, particularly the complexities of copyright, fair use, and attribution in the age of AI-generated content. Muttoni introduces key concepts like the Programmable IP License (PIL), a customizable and on-chain license that makes IP rights more transparent and accessible. He also provides an overview of Poseidon, a new initiative that leverages the Story Protocol to create a marketplace for IP-safe, real-world data needed to train AI models, ensuring that data creators and owners are fairly compensated.

Key Takeaways

Andrea's Background: From a bedroom hip-hop producer to a product manager at Amazon working on Kindle and Alexa, Muttoni shares his path to the world of crypto and blockchain.
What is Story Protocol?: A deep dive into Story Protocol's mission to create an open IP blockchain. It's a way to register, license, and monetize IP in a more liquid and accessible way.
The Programmable IP License (PIL): Explanation of how this universal, customizable, and on-chain license simplifies IP transactions and makes it easier for others to legally use a creator's work.
Introducing Poseidon: Details on the new platform built on the Story Protocol to address the "data gold rush" for AI. Poseidon allows for the licensing of real-world, IP-cleared data to AI companies, ensuring fair compensation for contributors.
Promoting Adoption: Discussion on how Story Protocol uses a web3 incentive model to encourage widespread adoption and create a network effect for its IP infrastructure.
Why Story Protocol?: Muttoni explains what makes their platform uniquely suited for IP rights compared to other blockchains, emphasizing that the network was built from the ground up specifically for this use case.

Things We Talk About in this Episode

Story Protocol: story.foundation
Story Protocol IP Portal: portal.story.foundation
Poseidon: psdn.ai
Story Protocol Developer Docs: docs.story.foundation
WIPO Report: A report on intangible assets, mentioned as a key indicator of the value of intellectual property.