Palo Alto, USA, March 4th, 2025, Chainwire
Itheum on Walrus set to power the next generation of AI and music data economies.
Itheum, a data tokenization protocol for humans and AI agents, has partnered with Walrus to enable the secure storage and seamless exchange of large data assets across Itheum’s platform. Walrus is a decentralized storage protocol that allows any application to write, read, verify, and manage, via smart contracts on Sui, any data type onchain.
As a data tokenization protocol focused on the music and agentic AI industries, Itheum’s infrastructure seamlessly tokenizes real-world data into assets that are tradable and liquid. Musicians and music AI agents can use Itheum’s technology to tokenize songs, entire albums, and catalogs, providing a means to monetize their music, control royalties and distribution, and establish copyright protection.
“We chose Walrus because of its unparalleled ability to handle large file storage with efficiency and resilience,” said Mark Paul, Founder and CEO of Itheum. “This partnership allows us to address one of our community’s biggest pain points – reliable access to high-quality media and data files without exorbitant costs or latency issues.”
While Itheum’s proprietary storage layer has supported smaller files effectively, users have faced challenges with storing large media files, including high-resolution audio and video. By leveraging Walrus, Itheum will offer its community cost-effective, scalable, and highly available storage solutions for large file assets. Thanks to this collaboration, Walrus users can access Itheum’s data tokenization technology, including the ability to tokenize and trade large data assets. For AI agents, Walrus enables the storage of large models, training data, and fine-tuning, which can then be traded with other agents.
“Itheum’s focus on democratizing data ownership aligns perfectly with Walrus’s mission,” said Rebecca Simmonds, Managing Executive of Walrus Foundation. “By providing resilient, scalable, and programmable storage, Walrus empowers platforms like Itheum to innovate around ownership and drive revenue generation without being constrained by traditional data storage limitations.”
Itheum’s AI agent-specific technology (code-named AIthra Network) is focused on enabling high programmability for AI agents. The goal of the AIthra Network is to allow an AI agent to tokenize any form of data, information, or content with just a few lines of code. With Walrus, Itheum expects significant improvements in performance, availability, and overall platform reliability, strengthening its position as a foundational infrastructure layer for data tokenization and AI-driven applications.
Walrus is expected to launch on mainnet in March.
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