The Decentralized Story Universe
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Conglomerates with the biggest proprietary datasets stand to extract all value in this new era.
The ability to generate high-quality AI content is scaling exponentially. By 2030, 90% of all digital content is projected to be AI-generated. Companies that have spent decades creating their universes will use this base of information to their advantage, dominating the new entertainment landscape with infinite spin-offs, immersive AI-generated experiences, and fully explorable worlds. These experiences will be owned by the expected media giants across all forms of entertainment.
All of these experiences will spring forth from their extensive written and visual databases, turning their stories into living worlds that will further define our cultural landscape. In this way the value of the $1.5T media industry will further consolidate into this small set of pockets.
While content creation will continue to be democratized and the barriers to creation will fall to 0, the value accrual will continue to be more concentrated to those who own the underlying data.
AI is set to generate the majority of future media, but without structured input, its outputs will be shaped by centralized datasets owned by a few powerful platforms.
Open, community-driven creativity is messy by nature, and without a shared system to organize contributions, the signal gets lost in the noise.
Franchise dominance is increasing, not because of better ideas, but because they have the infrastructure to unify characters, worlds, and storylines at scale.
Decentralized storytelling needs coordination, not just permission—without a living, shared canon, collective creativity can’t compete with centralized content machines.
In order to solve these problems we must forge a new structure for the creation of living story worlds. We propose DreamNet, a protocol that allows for:
A decentralized, composable dataset of characters, worlds, and ideas—a community-owned foundation that AI can draw from to generate rich, diverse content outside corporate control.
A living WorldState that tracks, weights, and connects all contributions, enabling coherent worldbuilding at scale. It filters noise through collective signal—turning chaos into canon through market intelligence and fan popularity.
A set of clients that gives communities the ability to build scalable, interconnected story worlds—combining AI tools, shared data layers, and financial incentives to evolve grassroots creations into cohesive, expansive universes.
A network for coherence—a framework that allows creators to contribute independently, while ensuring all inputs plug into an evolving, interconnected universe powered by AI.
This process flattens the amount of time it takes to create this moat by crowdsourcing the most valuable resource in the future of AI content: data. We will soon live in a world where a small IP with an inspired and incentivized fanbase can actually compete with the giants.
Just as social media turned us into the creators of the internet's content, DreamNet will turn us into the creators of the virtual worlds of our impending future. But this time we'll share in the bounty.
In this future we must own our worlds, or be forced to live in someone else’s.