Knowledge Tokenization Protocol Itheum Companions With Walrus

[PRESS RELEASE – Palo Alto, USA, March 4th, 2025]

Itheum on Walrus set to energy the subsequent era of AI and music knowledge economies.

Itheum, a knowledge tokenization protocol for people and AI brokers, has partnered with Walrus to allow the safe storage and seamless change of enormous knowledge property throughout Itheum’s platform. Walrus is a decentralized storage protocol that enables any utility to write down, learn, confirm, and handle, by way of good contracts on Sui, any knowledge sort onchain.

As a knowledge tokenization protocol targeted on the music and agentic AI industries, Itheum’s infrastructure seamlessly tokenizes real-world knowledge into property which might be tradable and liquid. Musicians and music AI brokers can use Itheum’s know-how to tokenize songs, complete albums, and catalogs, offering a way to monetize their music, management royalties and distribution, and set up copyright safety.

“We selected Walrus due to its unparalleled potential to deal with massive file storage with effectivity and resilience,” stated Mark Paul, Founder and CEO of Itheum. “This partnership permits us to handle considered one of our group’s greatest ache factors – dependable entry to high-quality media and knowledge recordsdata with out exorbitant prices or latency points.”

Whereas Itheum’s proprietary storage layer has supported smaller recordsdata successfully, customers have confronted challenges with storing massive media recordsdata, together with high-resolution audio and video. By leveraging Walrus, Itheum will supply its group cost-effective, scalable, and extremely accessible storage options for giant file property. Due to this collaboration, Walrus customers can entry Itheum’s knowledge tokenization know-how, together with the power to tokenize and commerce massive knowledge property. For AI brokers, Walrus allows the storage of enormous fashions, coaching knowledge, and fine-tuning, which may then be traded with different brokers.

“Itheum’s give attention to democratizing knowledge possession aligns completely with Walrus’s mission,” stated Rebecca Simmonds, Managing Govt of Walrus Basis. “By offering resilient, scalable, and programmable storage, Walrus empowers platforms like Itheum to innovate round possession and drive income era with out being constrained by conventional knowledge storage limitations.”

Itheum’s AI agent-specific know-how (code-named AIthra Community) is concentrated on enabling excessive programmability for AI brokers. The purpose of the AIthra Community is to permit an AI agent to tokenize any type of knowledge, data, or content material with just some traces of code. With Walrus, Itheum expects important enhancements in efficiency, availability, and general platform reliability, strengthening its place as a foundational infrastructure layer for knowledge tokenization and AI-driven functions.

Walrus is anticipated to launch on mainnet in March.