Story is the chain that treats intellectual property as a first-class protocol object — not a metadata convention, but registration, licensing terms, and royalty flows implemented as on-chain modules. It launched mainnet (codename Homer) in February 2025, raised an a16z-led $80M Series B on the thesis, and has become the default answer to "how do we license training data and creative work on-chain?" For a developer, the good news is that all of this novelty sits behind a completely standard interface: chain ID 1514, ordinary eth_* JSON-RPC, Solidity, viem/ethers unchanged. Here's the map.
The essentials
Story mainnet is chain ID 1514, an EVM Layer 1 with an unusual construction:
CometBFT consensus underneath, EVM execution on top. Story is built with the Cosmos SDK; validators run CometBFT proof-of-stake while the execution layer speaks EVM. You never touch the Cosmos side for normal work — noabci_query, no Tendermint RPC — it's the same "Cosmos engine, EVM cockpit" arrangement we covered on .
~2–3 second blocks with single-block BFT finality. A committed block is final. There are no reorgs to defend against — the entire ) or index the registration events into your own graph store and traverse locally.
Registration bursts look like mint bursts. Story's traffic profile is registration- and license-event heavy — the sameeth_getLogsrange-cap discipline applies here as on any high-event chain (page your ranges; see gives you chain 1514 alongside 75+ other networks under one key. . SwiftNodes provides flat-rate multi-chain RPC endpoints — HTTP + WebSocket, 75+ chains, no per-request metering. Grab a free key.↗ Original-Artikel auf dev.to lesenVollständiger Original-BerichtAusführliche Details, Code-Beispiele & Hersteller-Stellungnahme auf dev.to.
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