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Introduction: Why Blockchains Struggle with Secrets​

For years, blockchains have faced a dilemma: they are excellent at transparency but terrible at secrecy. This works fine for financial ledgers, but it fails for Intellectual Property (IP).

Real-world IP—such as unreleased music stems, high-value AI training datasets, or human genomic data—cannot be exposed on a public explorer. It needs to be protected.

Story Protocol’s introduction of IP Vault solves this fundamental infrastructure gap. As a validator preparing for mainnet, I believe IP Vault is the critical feature that separates Story from every other L1 chain. Here is a technical breakdown of how it works and what it means for node operators.