<Poseidon: AI’s Full-Stack Infrastructure for IP-Cleared Training Data> Today, Poseidon is launching: a new infrastructure layer for AI, incubated by Story and backed by $15M from a16z crypto, built to fix its most broken input: training data. Nvidia is valued at over $4 trillion. AMD sits at $255 billion. OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and others are worth over $500 billion combined. Each differentiate on data, not models or compute. AI data today is fragmented, unlicensed and legally-risky. Major labs and enterprises are reassessing their data pipelines. Contracts are being paused or pulled. Poseidon exists to change this and there is demand for high-quality, IP-cleared training data. Poseidon, a new protocol incubated by Story and backed by $15M from a16z crypto, is building full-stack infrastructure on our blockchain to collect, curate, and license real-world data critical for next-gen AI. It’s underpinned by a core belief: that data is one of the most valuable and under-structured forms of IP, and that Story’s infrastructure is uniquely suited to bring it on-chain. Poseidon is a native extension of the Story blockchain and a foundational piece of our Chapter 2 vision. Poseidon is focused on the long tail. Not scraped web data, but POV video, biometric audio, multilingual speech, and sensor-rich logs from edge devices and robotics systems. The kind of data that can’t be faked, guessed, or scraped—and is essential for physical AI. For AI teams, Poseidon provides clarity and coordination. They define exactly what data they need. Contributors—from phones, dashcams, clinics, and wearables—supply it. Poseidon curates, de-identifies, labels, and prepares it for commercial use. Every dataset is registered on-chain as IP through Story. What makes this different is the stack underneath. From the start, Story was designed to support the entire lifecycle of IP:from registration and attribution to licensing and royalty flows. That includes art, music, fiction, and synthetic media, and now real-world datasets. Every dataset becomes an IP asset. Every contributor is permissioned and rewarded. Every model output is linked to transparent provenance. Poseidon is the data layer for the AI-native IP economy. And it’s only possible because of what Story makes possible under the hood. -- What brings this vision to life is the team. @SPChinchali, our Chief AI Officer at Story and now Poseidon's Chief Scientist, has spent the past decade confronting the hardest problems in real-world AI—how to capture edge-case data, train models at the edge, and build systems that can reason outside the lab. His belief in crypto infrastructure came from direct experience, and that conviction has only deepened. @sarickshah, formerly Lead AI Engineer at Story, has built and deployed machine learning systems across telco, finance, and logistics. At Story, he helped advance influence function research and natural language tooling for IP indexing. Now he leads Poseidon as Head of Product. @WhatTheLJW, previously Head of Special Projects at Story and a senior researcher at Harvard Crypto Lab, leads strategy and operations. LJW brings a rare blend of protocol-level thinking and operational fluency—he understands both the architecture and how to scale it. These are builders who have been thinking about this problem for years. What’s changed now is that the world is catching up to why it matters. To ensure Story’s incubation model is executed with full conviction, I’ll be serving as Poseidon’s founding president while continuing in my day-to-day role as Story’s CEO, working closely with Sandeep, Sarick, and LJW to bring this infrastructure to market. This is how seriously we take real-world data as a vertical of IP—one that must be tokenized, made programmable, and brought fully on-chain through Story. -- In the age of physical AI, data is the new moat. Poseidon is how we build it—ethically, securely, and at scale. This is what Chapter 2 looks like in motion. Let’s build.