Recently, @StoryProtocol and @OKX Ventures collaborated on something, with both parties jointly launching a special fund totaling $10 million. The fund focuses on the intersection of IP and AI, and will roll out investments in projects that deeply serve AI application needs. According to understanding, the main exploration directions include IP model innovation and asset monetization paths, building decentralized AI infrastructure, and creating a new paradigm of transforming IP into on-chain financial assets.
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The fund itself is quite different from traditional Web3 accelerators, managed jointly by Story and OKX Ventures, with a stronger emphasis on project selection criteria and systematic investment logic.
It's not difficult to see that OKX Ventures' focus has changed. Initially, its portfolio was mainly centered on public chains and DeFi narratives, but now it has further shifted towards a more industry-penetrating vertical application layer direction.
For instance, the investment in Story is quite illustrative. As the first L1 independently invested by @OKX Ventures in 2025, Story spans two trendy narratives of AI and IP, primarily providing institutional-level infrastructure for "AI-native IP assets".
In fact, the data range used for AI training has been quite open, and widespread AIGC has infringed on many creators' rights with almost no accountability. Story has further established a blockchain-based method of recording IP usage authorization and monetization, standardizing the IP authorization and monetization process on-chain, reconstructing content asset systems through a completely new paradigm to further improve the situation where content is extensively used without genuine authorization.
OKX has always been able to bet on trending projects before a hot track explodes, such as TON focusing on social ecology, and performance chains like Aptos from the Move ecosystem. Whether it's OKX Ventures investing in @StoryProtocol or the two jointly establishing this fund, it seems like OKX's advance bet on the next Web3 trend.
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