Quick Breakdown:
- Aria unveils Aria PRIME to tokenize billion-dollar music catalogs, film franchises, and other cultural IP for institutional investors
- Launch begins with $100M in tokenized Korean music catalogs through a partnership with Story and Contents Technologies
- The platform offers liquidity, transparency, and blockchain-based access to high-value IP across music, film, and art
Aria has launched Aria PRIME, a new platform designed to transform cultural intellectual property (IP) into institutional-grade blockchain assets. Positioned as the company’s institutional arm, Aria PRIME targets ultra-high-value IP portfolios such as billion-dollar music catalogs, global entertainment franchises, and other major cultural rights, creating new pathways for capital formation in the onchain economy.
Introducing Aria PRIME
Launching with a $100M deal to tokenize Korean music catalogs on @StoryProtocol in partnership with Contents Technologies pic.twitter.com/GNSsLlFDpP
— Aria (@Aria_Protocol) September 22, 2025
Bridging capital markets and cultural assets
Aria PRIME provides IP owners with tools to tokenize their assets, turning music, film, and art rights into fungible onchain products. The platform enables rights holders to maintain control while unlocking liquidity and transparency through blockchain infrastructure. For investors, this setup opens access to iconic cultural IP as a productive real-world asset, offering the efficiency of blockchain-based transactions alongside institutional-grade safeguards. Tokenized IP also carries the potential for future composability within decentralized finance ecosystems, allowing for broader applications and market integrations.
Debut with $100M tokenized Korean music catalogs
The platform will launch with a landmark $100 million initiative in tokenized Korean music catalogs in partnership with Story and Contents Technologies. This first deployment showcases how Aria PRIME can convert creative works into liquid financial products while preserving their cultural significance. Over time, Aria plans to expand beyond music to include film, art, and other premium IP categories, positioning Aria PRIME as the leading global marketplace for tokenized intellectual property.
By merging blockchain technology with the cultural economy, Aria PRIME aims to redefine IP as not only a creative force but a scalable financial asset. The move signals a shift in how music, entertainment, and other cultural properties can attract institutional investment and thrive within the onchain economy.
Meanwhile, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) introduced its Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) platform, a blockchain-powered system developed with Microsoft and hosted on Azure. The DMI platform has already completed its first live transaction, offering issuance, tokenization, distribution, settlement, and servicing across multiple asset classes to modernize private market investments.
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