Itheum Enables Large-Scale Data Tokenization for Musicians and AI on Walrus

Itheum is a protocol that gives people and AI agents true ownership of their data. The platform aims to become the decentralized storage, tokenization, IP transparency, and monetization layer for all data in the AI era, with an initial focus in providing their tech to the music industry. Real-world data can be tokenized on Itheum to create liquid digital assets, which can be used to trade and control large files, like master audio tracks, music WAV stem files, HD videos, and custom AI models. Itheum will become the infrastructure to enable autonomous digital data economies.

Itheum’s initial focus is on disrupting the music and agentic AI industries by providing the technology for musicians and AI agents to secure copyright protection for, monetize, and distribute their work. Building on Walrus' decentralized programmable protocol enabled Itheum to overcome critical infrastructure challenges, offering a robust and scalable solution for storing the large, high-value files that these industries require. 

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Challenge

Itheum’s initial storage infrastructure, a custom abstraction layer using IPFS, Arweave, and Filecoin, alongside proprietary orchestration technology, successfully handled smaller files. However, it struggled to meet the demands of the high-value data their initial target audiences require, like large original high-resolution master files (WAVs), STEM files, HD music videos, and long-form podcast content.

Storing and retrieving these large files was slow, prohibitively expensive, and suffered from unreliable latency. Inconsistent gateway reliability also meant that data could temporarily go offline without notice, creating a poor user experience.

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Solution

The Itheum team identified Walrus as the ideal solution to provide reliable, cost-efficient storage for large files. By building on Walrus, Itheum can now ensure that large datasets are stored durably, managed easily, and can be retrieved with high performance and low latency. 

The reliability of Walrus’ decentralized storage provides the solid foundation Itheum needs to serve as a core infrastructure layer for the AI and music data economies, making it practical and affordable for users to tokenize, trade, and distribute large, high-quality data assets.