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<a href="https://injective.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@injective</a> announced a strategic partnership with South Korean music ownership platform Musicow on Thursday, with the two firms joining forces to bring music intellectual property (IP) rights onchain for fans and investors worldwide.
<h2 id="a-gap-in-the-rwa-market">A Gap in the RWA Market</h2>
Despite institutional capital aggressively acquiring music catalogs, the asset class has remained almost entirely absent from blockchain-based real-world asset (RWA) markets. That is the gap this deal aims to close. <cite>Injective will handle RWA token issuance, on-chain distribution, secondary-market trading, and royalty settlement as it seeks to expand access for global investors.</cite><cite>The layer-1 blockchain describes itself as institution-focused, supporting KYC and AML compliance, and has recorded $6.5 billion in cumulative RWA trading volume and more than $77 billion in total on-chain volume.</cite>
<cite>Eric Chen, co-founder of Injective, said the partnership with Musicow US has created a structure the music industry has long awaited, and that Injective aims to be the first platform to enable compliance-based music copyrights to be held, transferred onchain, and used in decentralized finance (DeFi).</cite>
<h2 id="musicow-s-track-record-and-us-expansion">Musicow's Track Record and US Expansion</h2>
<cite>Founded in 2016, Musicow introduced the world's first fractional investment platform for music copyright trading.</cite><cite>As of September 2024, the company's cumulative membership stood at 1.2 million, with total transactions reaching KRW 420 billion ($293 million).</cite><cite>Musicow has so far secured about 20,000 music IPs.</cite> The model is straightforward: <cite>the platform splits copyright claim rights into small fractions and puts them up for auction, with investors earning profits from music copyrights much like dividends from shares.</cite>
<cite>Earlier this year, the Korean startup joined hands with Roc Nation, the entertainment company founded by Jay-Z, to offer securitized fractional music royalties in the US market.</cite><cite>Musicow's US operation filed its securities with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and received approval for issuance under the SEC's Regulation A+ framework.</cite>
<cite>Musicow chair Jung Hyun-kyung said the company plans to actively adopt RWA and tokenization technology, building on its experience in security token offerings (STOs), to connect K-content copyrights to the Web3 ecosystem.</cite> Catalog drops featuring globally recognized artists are expected in the coming months.
<cite>WIPO research analyzing data from platforms including Musicow shows that music IP assets remain largely insulated from stock market fluctuations, offering portfolio diversification with stable returns.</cite> That profile, combined with growing institutional interest in music catalogs, makes the Injective-Musicow deal a notable step toward bringing the asset class within reach of a broader, global investor base.
Sources: <a href="https://en.bloomingbit.io/feed/news/111872" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bloomingbit: Injective Partners With Musicow US, Republic on K-Content Copyright Tokenization</a> <a href="https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/jay-zs-roc-nation-partners-with-south-koreas-musicow-to-launch-music-royalty-trading-platform-in-the-us/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Music Business Worldwide: Roc Nation Partners With Musicow</a> <a href="https://www.wipo.int/en/web/ip-financing/w/news/2026/new-wipo-reports-put-music-royalty-investment-and-ip-finance-in-focus" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">WIPO: New Reports Put Music Royalty Investment and IP Finance in Focus</a>

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