The Next Phase of IP Onchain: Remixable Music Debuts on Aria Protocol with NANA
Oct 16, 2025
Aria Protocol is launching its first remixable IP assets with a global remix contest, with three songs from Korean artist and actress NANA in November, marking the beginning of a new era for how creative rights are accessed, shared, and monetized onchain.
This builds on the foundation set by $APL, the first Intellectual Property Real-World Asset (IPRWA) token on the protocol. This tokenized partial income rights to songs performed by chart-topping artists like Justin Bieber, BLACKPINK, and Miley Cyrus for the first time with holders and stakers of the token earning royalties generated by the underlying assets. This showcased how music rights can be made liquid, tradeable, and accessible to all.
Now, the protocol is taking the next step: remixable IP. This is a framework that enables IP to be licensed and remixed with monetization shared between rights holders, remixers and investors via IPRWA tokens.
From $APL to Remixable IP: Music as a Living Network
When $APL launched on Aria Protocol, it became the first tokenized IP rights asset tied to real-world royalties. It connected rights holders, fans, and investors to the value behind hit music in an onchain format. $APL proved that music IP rights can be shared together, transparently and at scale.
Remixable IP builds on this by making IP active, turning creative assets into remixable economic systems. Remixable IP allows music to evolve beyond its first release. A song becomes a work open to remixes.
Tokenizing income rights to remixes, flows royalties generated by them back to different parties, as dictated by the guidelines set by the rights holder. These can include the original rights holders, remixers, and IPRWA token holders.
This is the evolution of IP from static rights ownership to active collaboration. It creates a new economy for cultural IP built on transparency, participation, and composability.
NANA Leads the Way
Marking this new chapter, NANA is the first artist to release remixable music assets on Aria Protocol. An acclaimed Korean singer and actress known for her work with After School, Orange Caramel, and her roles in film and television, NANA brings three tracks GOD, Daylight, and Hurt to the protocol.
The Global Remix Contest featuring NANA will launch in November, inviting producers worldwide to remix the tracks, with a $15,000 prize pool for 3 winners.
All submissions will have the chance to be released by a label. Those remixes will also have the recording rights tokenized on Aria Protocol with the net royalties flowing to both remixers and $APL token holders. Remixes may be further remixed with royalties generated from these also flowing to remixers and $APL holders.
“This album focuses less on glamour and more on the music itself — it honestly captures the questions I've asked myself and the answers that followed. I'm truly glad that, through Aria Protocol, this album can invite both creators and fans to explore and appreciate music from new perspectives. It's deeply meaningful to take part in a new form of culture where art and the value of music grow side by side.” says NANA
What NANA’s Remixable Assets Mean for $APL Holders
Tokenized recording rights to the remixes will back the $APL IPRWA token, in addition to the partial income rights to 48 works already announced in June that include songs performed by Justin Bieber, BLACKPINK, BTS and more.
$APL stakers will receive a share of the net royalties generated by the underlying rights to these remixed works, with the remainder distributed to the remixer.
This unlocks for $APL holders:
Access to new revenue flows from remixable music IP
Cultural participation, not just financial exposure
$APL is evolving from a token backed by passive music IP rights to an asset linked to dynamic, collaborative IP.
In this next phase, remixers and investors are co-authors of culture’s financial and artistic future.
Stay tuned for the remix competition to go live on Aria Protocol in November!
More details to be announced soon!
