Pacific Meta Inc. (Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Shota Iwasaki) has developed a working prototype of “IP Market Place by Pacific Meta,” a platform that tokenizes IP license rights for anime, music, film, and games, enabling fractional ownership and secondary trading on the blockchain. *This prototype is currently available only within Japan.

Background

The global IP licensing market runs on infrastructure that hasn’t meaningfully changed in decades. Licensing is handled through individual negotiations, revenue flows are opaque, and rights data is fragmented across industries and borders. In the music industry alone, roughly 12% of the $43 billion in annual US consumer spending on music reaches the artists themselves.

As AI accelerates content generation and remixing, the gap between IP creation and IP compensation is widening. Tracking derivative works and routing revenue back to original creators is becoming harder with existing systems, not easier.

What the Platform Does

IP Market Place tokenizes IP license rights as fungible tokens (ERC-20), allowing them to be purchased in fractional units, held for royalty income, and traded on a secondary market. Smart contracts handle royalty distribution and embed licensing terms directly into the token, so authorization and billing for secondary uses happen automatically.

The prototype includes four core features: a real-time revenue dashboard showing cumulative and monthly earnings by IP, a primary sales market for newly listed IP licenses, a peer-to-peer secondary marketplace with price history and sorting filters, and individual IP detail pages with yield estimates and revenue trend data. Purchases are denominated in USDC.

Technical Foundation

Building this prototype gave Pacific Meta hands-on experience in several areas that are directly relevant to commercialization: ERC-20 architecture for representing IP rights on-chain, smart contract design for automating royalty distribution, full-stack marketplace development covering primary and secondary sales, and consumer-facing UI design for Japanese users with no prior blockchain experience.

Partnership Opportunities

Pacific Meta is actively recruiting co-development partners to bring a commercial version of this platform to market. The company is looking to work with IP holders (anime studios, music labels, film distributors, game publishers), L1/L2 blockchain projects expanding into entertainment and media, financial institutions and securities firms interested in IP as an asset class within the security token and RWA space, and legal or regulatory experts working on IP tokenization frameworks.

Prototype Access

The demo environment is available on a screening basis to users within Japan, with priority given to business operators, investors, media professionals, and blockchain developers.

About Pacific Meta

Pacific Meta Inc. is a blockchain accelerator based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, providing consulting, investment, and marketing services at the intersection of blockchain and enterprise. Founded in August 2022.

Contact: info@pacific-meta.co.jp / https://pacific-meta.co.jp/en/contact/