PANews reported on March 3 that Story Ecosystem IP RWA Protocol Aria announced the acquisition of part of the copyright of the debut song "Black Mamba" by the famous Korean girl group Aespa, and realized on-chain tokenization. Users can directly hold on-chain copyright shares and share the royalty income stream generated by the work, further promoting the upgrade of music IP asset liquidity.

As the first Korean girl group to have six consecutive albums in the top 50 of the Billboard 200, Aespa's "Black Mamba" has been played more than 200 million times on Spotify and has exceeded 276 million views on YouTube.

Following the successful tokenization of BTS’ hit single, Aria’s music asset library now covers 90 of the world’s top music works, including hit singles by BLACKPINK and Justin Bieber.