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KOR

KOR Protocol is an onchain clearing layer for creative intellectual property, deployed on Base. It provides infrastructure for registering rights, licensing creative assets, and settling payments between rights holders and buyers without intermediaries.

The protocol performs three functions. Verify establishes provenance through an attestation graph covering authorship, sample clearance, AI provenance and commercial state. Route matches assets to buyers through an agent registry built to the ERC-8004 standard. Settle executes payment atomically in USDC, with revenue splits declared at the point of registration rather than reconciled afterwards.

The problem the protocol addresses is structural rather than technical. Rights data for music, film and other creative works sits across disconnected systems with no shared state. Licensing is a manual legal process, and settlement across markets, currencies and counterparties is typically handled as a periodic accounting exercise rather than a transaction. Industry analysis estimates roughly 50 million active creators, of whom approximately 2 million monetise at a full-time professional level.

Five consumer applications are built on the protocol and are live in production. Korus provides AI music creation and remix tools with onchain rights attribution. VRSNS handles officially licensed remixes and derivative works. Pacer provides rights registration and distribution tools for artists and producers. Streamline offers catalogue analytics and rights intelligence for enterprises. KOR Hubs hosts IP partner and community environments. Each application writes to shared protocol infrastructure, so activity in one strengthens the registry available to all.

$KOR is the protocol's settlement and access asset. It is used to pay protocol fees on registration, licensing and settlement; to access protocol services and participate in the agent registry; and to fund ecosystem incentives for rights holders and developers. Governance rights transfer to token holders over time, with parameter control passing from the Foundation from Q4 2026.