The Suede Intellectual Property Registry
Suede IP Registry: your music, on the record.
Suede IP Registry is a public provenance registry where musicians and artists fingerprint finished work, sign a creator claim, list contributors, and create a timestamped record.
Register a finished file in about two minutes, make the rights declaration, and keep the asset hash and transaction link with your project records.
Registration is live on Base and Avalanche mainnet. A record is a timestamped, wallet-signed claim — it is not proof of copyright ownership.
Article I — Registration
Two minutes,
then the claim is public.
A public register of music provenance, not a private draft.
Upload it
Any finished file — a song, a stem, lyrics, artwork. The registry reads it and gives it a fingerprint: a unique ID that only your exact file can produce.
It’s written down
The exact-file fingerprint, claimant wallet, rights declaration, contributors, and timestamp go into a public record that Suede cannot quietly edit or backdate.
You hold the certificate
The receipt stays in your account and shows what that wallet claimed and when. It is provenance evidence, not copyright registration or proof of legal ownership.
Certificate of Registration
№ SR-000013 · Specimen
- Work
- Midnight on Mulberry St.
- Author
- María Álvarez
- Registered
- —
- Fingerprint
- 0x7f3a91c0…42d7f83a
- Terms
- Commercial — your price · Remixes — allowed · AI training — off
The same certificate, two ways of reading it. Flip to Public record to see exactly what the chain stores — click the fingerprint to mint a new one.
Article III — Programs
For working musicians.
From Suede Distro
$7.99/moIndependent distribution, sold separately.
A standalone release rail for finished music.
Suede Distro is a separate $7.99/mo subscription covering release intake and delivery coordination through supported distribution partners; store coverage and eligibility vary. Suede adds no percentage commission to distributor-reported royalties, though DSP, distributor, payment, tax, and optional-service deductions may still apply. Distro does not create a registry record or a Rights Passport — registering a work here is a separate step.
See Distro scopeAnnex A — The public record
The crypto,
for those who want it.
The registry's records live on two public blockchains — that's what makes them permanent and impossible to quietly edit. You never have to touch this layer: signing up creates a simple wallet for you, and fees run about a cent. But everything is in the open. If you're technical, verify it yourself.
Coinbase’s Ethereum L2 — where agent commerce settles in USDC.
- Registry
- 0x264eFed8…c27a3A
- Certificates (ERC-721)
- 0xB957C84B…805FFb
Sub-second finality on the C-Chain. Same registry, different rail.
- Registry
- 0xAC2bf87F…B1121C
- Certificates (ERC-721)
- 0x6436c232…9d97c1
Identical contract bytecode on both networks. Addresses above are the live production deployments — click any of them to read the code and every transaction on a public explorer.
Inquiries
Asked by musicians.
No. If you can upload a file, you can register. Signing up creates a simple smart wallet for you — no seed phrases, nothing to install — and fees are typically about a cent. The blockchain layer is there if you want it, invisible if you don’t.
No rights transfer through registration. It creates a wallet-signed claim, file fingerprint, contributor splits, and timestamp. That is provenance evidence, not proof of creation you’d file with the Copyright Office, and not proof of legal ownership.
Songs, stems, beats, lyrics, artwork, photos, video, 3D models, code, datasets, even voice models. If it’s a file, it can be fingerprinted and registered.
Not today. The registry records provenance: a file fingerprint, a wallet-signed claim, contributor splits, and a timestamp. Licensing is negotiated and signed off-platform, and your record is the evidence you bring to that conversation.
A registry record can state whether you offer AI training consent and under what terms. It cannot technically prevent unauthorized scraping or training — it gives you a dated, public record of what you claimed and when.
No. The registry provides tamper-evident evidence of a file fingerprint, wallet-signed claim, contributors, and timestamp. For statutory benefits in the US, use the Copyright Office.
Two minutes. About a cent.
A receipt built to last.
A fast, public receipt for the exact version you filed.
Register your first work