Launch! 📣 Trading in New Internet Media (NIM) and Introducing the CopyrightChains help center

CopyrightChains addresses content and creative challenges through an integrated platform combining blockchain registration, decentralized identity verification, and peer-to-peer token trading—fundamentally restructuring how creative works are registered, verified, and monetized.

Thor Arne Pettersen

27 Oct 2025 — 5 min read

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