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Storichain is a global project that provides a partially decentralized dApp and a shared protocol for the story industry to solve the
problems of the story industry through blockchain characteristics. The term ‘Story Industry’ refers to the industry which uses
‘stories’ as a source of their products and includes areas such as movies, dramas, web novels, web dramas, plays, musicals, and
radio dramas.
Currently, the market size of the global digital content industry is nearing 1.4490 trillion 1 ) and is predicted to
maintain a high 10% growth rate for the next 5 years to reach the $2.4 trillion mark in 2021. In the case of South Korea, the market
size is about 14.5 trillion KRW.
However, despite the rapid growth of the market, the industry still has many problems left to be solved. One of the biggest
problems is that the story assets (source stories, scripts, novels, webtoons, scenarios, etc.), which is the foundation of the entire
industry, are only being traded on an offline platform due to idea theft issues. Currently, almost the entirety of the transactions is
made offline between people who trust each other. In this regard, Storichain can be considered as a digital story asset
management system which allows the individuals to make transactions online even with non-trustable people by making an ‘idea
theft prevention contract.’ One other problem within the industry is the issue related to ‘profit-sharing.’ For example, the webtoon
industry, which is one of the biggest story-based industry in Korea, had already exceeded $700 million in market size, but there are
still many people questioning the profit-sharing structure of the industry, and many content creators are still having a hard time on
receiving sufficient compensation for their work.
Moreover, in areas where production costs are relatively high, such as the movie/drama industry, it is customary for the production
companies, which is considered as a distribution broker and the early-stage investor in the industry, to take full risk of the future by
paying most of the costs that is required during the story gathering/development process. This was due to the nature of the
industry that there is no guarantee that the story quality will directly lead to sufficient market demand.
In the story industry, the role of readers is as much as important to that of the writers and the production companies. If a reader
reads a story and enjoys it by himself/herself, there is absolutely no additional value created. However, if the reader shares his
emotions and experience with other people, it can lead to a networking effect of the story and can be considered as an actual act
that contributes to the story. Also, other acts including making reviews and telling their own story the writers can be regarded as a
contributing action.
Until now, such contributions from the readers was considered as an important foundation of the story industry. However, the
industry was not able to accumulate reliable data to provide compensation to the readers who contributed to the content creation
process. Therefore, the Storichain starts by placing the token’s value base on story creation, ultimately lowering the trust cost
between the participants of the story industry –writers, production companies, and readers-. By doing so, we will make the process
of creating a derivative work out of a source story more transparent, solving the unfairness that exists in the industry and creates
new values.
In this white paper, we are going to demonstrate how the Storichain Project will use certain blockchain characteristics to solve the
problems in the story industry, and what kind of added value it will create during the process
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