Pitch deck · teia.cafe Inc.

teia.cafe

Proof. Protection.
Peace of Mind.

Creating art is challenging enough; protecting it shouldn’t be. We built teia.cafe to ensure artists can secure their legacy and defend their work without legal hurdles or prohibitive costs.

Ryan Tanaka, CEO · Johannes Simon, CTO

♫ Recommended listening

The Lost Album for teia.cafe by stereohopper (TEIA Member)

“Aiming For the Sky” by Christina Savvatianou (TEIA Core Team)

The problem

Your work is copied faster than you can prove it’s yours.

Artists

See their work copyminted, reposted without credit and fed to AI models, with no quick way to prove it came first or to find where it went.

Collectors

Buy works that turn out to be copies, with no easy way to check who made the original or what the license allows.

The industry

NFT markets are plagued by fraud: 38% of NFT trades are wash trades¹, and one scanner flagged 245,000+ copymints in under a year². Across the web, an estimated 85% of shared images are used without a license³. A US registration costs $45–65 and takes months⁴.

The core issue: proof is slow and costly, and finding copies is left to the artist. The blockchain fixes the first; watermarking and AI fix the second.

“time-lock” by obscure nonspecifics (TEIA Member)

teia.cafe · ¹ Boston University, 2026 · ² DeviantArt, 2022 · ³ Copytrack, 2019 · ⁴ USCO fees

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The solution

Proof. Protection. Peace of Mind.

Proof: Register

Any work – image, video, audio, 3D or text – is tokenized with its license terms on TEIA’s registry: a public, timestamped record.

Protection: Watermark

An invisible mark with the registration and a do-not-train notice, built to survive resizing, compression, noise and other common edits.

Peace of Mind: Enforce

AI and traditional media-matching methods trace and track content, providing citable evidence; we are planning coverage of audio, video and the wider web.

The combination of blockchain records (definitive proof of authorship), watermarking (a trail that survives transformations and bypass attempts), and AI attribution systems gives artists protection with far greater precision and accuracy than ever before.

TEIA’s non-profit, open-source framework also ensures these records remain available even if companies or organizations shut down or are acquired – a long-standing problem in the space, finally being addressed.

“comprador intellectuals didactically demarcating the boundaries of visionary insight” by scottxphotography (TEIA Core Team)

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How it works

Proof. Protection. Peace of Mind.

1 · Proof

Register

Tokenize the work and record its license on TEIA’s copyright registry: who made it, when, and on what terms.

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2 · Protection

Watermark

An invisible mark that survives resizing, re-compression, noise and other common edits.

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3 · Peace of Mind

Enforce

AI attribution systems ensure that copyright and royalties rules are being properly enforced, at scale.

Blockchain: proof

A public, permanent record of author, date and license that anyone can check.

Watermark: identity

The file itself carries its registration, even after it leaves your hands.

AI detection & attribution: reach

With two layers of verification, copyright protections become much easier to enforce – both through traditional channels and AI tools.

Live now: teia.cafe/register · /copyright · /copyrightmarketplace
Planned: matching for audio and video, and scans across the wider web.

The live register page: teia.cafe/register

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Is this realistic?

Doubt 1

“It can be bypassed.”

Bypassing it doesn’t erase the source. Every registration is tied to a public blockchain record: one definitive source of who registered the work, and when. A copy has to beat every layer, and matching can still spot it.

Doubt 2

“It isn’t legally recognized.”

It doesn’t have to be. We give artists evidence, not a lawsuit: a dated record and a short list of likely copies to attach to a takedown request or show a moderator. Court cases stay with the US Copyright Office.

Doubt 3

“Berne says registration can’t be required.”

Ours isn’t mandatory. Under the Berne Convention, copyright exists from the moment a work is made, with no formalities¹. Registering with us is optional proof on top, and matching covers unregistered works too.

Doubt 4

“Anyone set on copying will find a way.”

We make the honest path easy. Most people want to credit creators, but today’s systems make it tedious. We make it quick for good actors (find the artist, check the terms, license) and hard for bad actors to run rampant.

Our goal isn’t perfection – it’s to shift the balance of power from bad actors to good ones. With our framework, this is entirely possible.

teia.cafe · ¹ Berne Convention (WIPO)

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Why now

The law now asks AI to give credit.

Aug 2025

EU AI Act¹

AI models must show what they learned from

Providers must honour copyright opt-outs and publish a summary of their training data; fines up to 3% of turnover.

Jan 2026

California AB 2013²

Training data, out in the open

Developers must disclose where their training data came from, and whether it includes copyrighted work.

Jul 2026

Bartz v. Anthropic³

$1.5B for unlicensed training

The largest copyright settlement on record: about $3,000 a work for books from pirate libraries.

Aug 2026

EU AI Act⁴, SB 942⁵

AI output must be marked – and already is

EU and Californian law require machine-readable marks; Google’s SynthID alone has marked over 10 billion pieces⁶.

What this means for artists: AI companies will now have to know whose work they use. A public, timestamped registration – including its license terms and AI-training permissions – is the record they will need to check. Tying those watermarks to blockchain records ensures that claims are valid and accurate.

“TheLionKitty” by Yoeshi (TEIA Member, Tezos Commons)

teia.cafe · ¹ AI Act Art. 53 · ² AB 2013 · ³ JURIST 2026 · ⁴ AI Act Art. 50 · ⁵ SB 942 · ⁶ Google, 2025

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Copyright Now vs the Future

Faster, cheaper, better.

	US Copyright Office	teia.cafe + TEIA registry
Cost	$45–65 a work, rising to $55–85 from Nov 2026¹	~$0.50: 1 credit plus fees
Time	1–3.5 months on average²	Seconds; final in 12 s
Reach	A US government record	A public, global record anyone can verify
License terms	Not included	Built in, with templates; tokenized and sold with editions
Finding copies	None: that is on you	Scans the web and the chain, with evidence
Takedowns and disputes	Needed to sue in a US court	Credible takedowns and faster disputes, without litigation

Use both for high-value works: the federal record for court; ours for everyday proof, credible takedowns and licensing.

“Boombah Prophets” by Marc Fendel (Music, TEIA Core Team)

teia.cafe · ¹ US Copyright Office fees · ² USCO processing times

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Detection Methods Now vs the Future

Combining these technologies solves the puzzle.

	Image search (Google Lens, TinEye)	Monitoring (Pixsy, Copytrack)	Watermarks (C2PA, hidden marks)	AI detectors (Hive, Illuminarty)	teia.cafe
How it works	Finds the same image online	Watches the web, files claims	A label hidden in the file	Guesses if an image is AI-made	All, tied to an on-chain record
Weak spot	Misses crops and edits	Takes ~50% of what it recovers¹	Stripped by 8 of 8 platforms²; removable³	Easily fooled⁴; can’t say who made it	No single point of failure
Proof of authorship	None	A private registry	Only while the mark survives	None	A public, timestamped registry
Trust and transparency	Google’s index	The company staying in business	Every platform to keep the mark	A black-box score	On-chain and open-source
Cost	Free, but manual	$19–25+ a month, plus commission¹	Free to add, easy to lose	Paid per-image APIs	Less than $1 a scan, ~$0.50 to register

Past products solved some issues for some users – but at a high cost, and never at scale. The immutability of blockchain systems, combined with newer technologies, is the missing piece that completes the picture.

teia.cafe · ¹ Pixsy pricing · ² Washington Post, 2025 · ³ Zhao et al., 2024 · ⁴ Ha et al., 2024

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Market opportunity

A $3B market for proof and licensing, a need that will grow over time.

2027 · SOM

$40K

TEIA

End-2027 run rate: 3K scans and 1K analytics reports a month at ~$0.40, 150 evidence packs, licensing fees.

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2028 · Tezos

$150K

All of Tezos

5% of a $3M market: 7.2M tokenized one-of-ones¹, each scanned yearly at ~$0.40.

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2029+ · SAM

$500K

Other chains

0.5% of a $100M+ market: 268M NFTs minted in 2025², each scanned once.

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Long term · TAM

$3B

Every creator

303M creators worldwide³, across images, audio and video, at $10 a year.

$40M a year

paid to the US Copyright Office for 416K registrations⁴: creators already pay for proof.

$4.8B → $22.6B

AI training-data licensing, 2025 to 2034⁵: the money attribution unlocks.

$6.7B → $11B

digital rights management, 2025 to 2030⁶: protection sells, but rarely at an independent artist’s price.

teia.cafe · ¹ TzKT · ² CryptoSlam · ³ Adobe · ⁴ USCO FY2025 · ⁵ Market Intelo · ⁶ MarketsandMarkets

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Business model

Pay per use, priced for artists.

Live

~$0.40

Copy scans

Per scan, free test credits at sign-in; every match saved as a report.

From launch

~$10

Evidence packs

Matches, registration and watermark check, ready for a takedown or licence request.

From launch

~$0.40

Licensing

1 credit per licence registration, plus a share of each licence sold on the Copyright Marketplace.

Live

~$0.40

Analytics

Portfolio, wash-trading, token-audit and baker reports on the same data.

At cost

~$0.10

Network fees

Minting and registry fees on-chain, passed through with no markup.

Later: success fees on recoveries · monitoring subscriptions · AI products, such as provenance and AI-training-permission lookups for AI companies.

Margins: an image lookup costs ~$0.0035¹; a scan sells for ~$0.40. Verifiable: every purchase is an on-chain payment to a public treasury wallet.

No conflict with the DAO: TEIA’s marketplace fees go to TEIA; teia.cafe earns from the services built on top.

teia.cafe · ¹ Google Cloud Vision pricing

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Our community

TEIA uses the blockchain as it was intended.

Teia DAO LLC: Community Owned, Volunteer powered. Slide by malicioussheep

TEIA is a non-profit, community-owned DAO and a direct continuation of Hic et Nunc, operating on the original contracts. It represents the purest use of blockchain as it was intended: nearly every feature runs on-chain, not just minting and sales. This includes direct messages and public channels, token-gated comments, polls and DAO votes, the events calendar, the wiki and text posts, copyright registrations, curation, fees, and admin/moderation decided by the core-team multisig.

Ryan and Joe are founders and core members who helped build the community from the ground up. In 2026, they helped raise $30K on TEIA’s behalf from the Tezos Foundation.

10 DAO-funded art events in 4 months, 3 continents. 10 more on the way.

g0v Summit, Taiwan #36

#TezosPride mint #38

Cycles, NFC Lisbon #39

#MidsummerParty2026 #32

#VoicesOfIran, TezCon #34

#CINDTezos mint #38

#BYOBxTeia, Mexico City #31

#Art4LifeTez blood drive #33

Jewelry workshop, Beijing #37

Teia Women in Serbia #43

Since 2021: 880K works minted · 3.6M sales on-chain · $62M traded · 5 years online · 1–2K daily users

Every proposal, vote and payment is public: teia-multisig.teia.art · teia.art/dao

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Slides by malicioussheep (TEIA Moderation and Organizational Team)

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Why Tezos

<$0.001

a typical transaction¹

Affordable for every artist

Network fees to register, list or license a work are a fraction of a cent¹, so protecting a portfolio stays cheap.

21

upgrades, 0 forks¹

A record that never splits

Upgrades are voted on-chain and the chain has never forked: a work registered today stays on one ledger.

196

active validators¹

No single owner

Kept by 196 bakers with 30% of supply staked¹; anyone can join with a ~$2K stake.

7.2M

tokenized one-of-ones¹

An active art community

Home of hic et nunc, TEIA, objkt and fxhash: grassroots and artist-run, 9.5M NFTs and counting¹.

1

enshrined rollup²

Room to grow, on one chain

Rollups are built into the protocol²: as usage grows, records stay on one chain, not scattered across L2s.

21 upgrades on-chain, Athens (2019) to Ushuaia (2026)¹

Athens
May 2019

Babylon
Oct 2019

Carthage
Mar 2020

Delphi
Nov 2020

Edo
Feb 2021

Florence
May 2021

Granada
Aug 2021

Hangzhou
Dec 2021

Ithaca
Apr 2022

Jakarta
Jun 2022

Kathmandu
Sep 2022

Lima
Dec 2022

Mumbai
Mar 2023

Nairobi
Jun 2023

Oxford
Feb 2024

Paris
Jun 2024

Quebec
Jan 2025

Rio
May 2025

Seoul
Sep 2025

Tallinn
Jan 2026

Ushuaia
Jun 2026

¹ TzKT, Oct 2026 · ² Tezos X

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Team

Two founders with a unique blend of expertise.

Ryan Tanaka

CEO / COO · @ryangtanaka

Founding member, TEIA DAO; raised $30K for its treasury; TezCon Seattle host
Runs growth: teia.cafe/radio (11K monthly visitors), 60+ media interviews, events on 3 continents
Composer; former PhD researcher in art history
Active in crypto since 2013: Ethereum ICO participant, former owner of CryptoPunk 8973

Music: “Cloud of Abundance” ▶
teia.cafe/curations/5

Johannes Simon

CTO · @jorion

Systems architect; smart contracts
CTO and European lead, TEIA
Wrote ~90% of teia.art updates since 2023
Built 8scribo (2022); co-founder, Tesserart (2024)
Tech Director, Escape Events Frankfurt 2016–19

In the art world

ratata gallery shows 2021–23; NFT booth, Positions Berlin Art Fair 2022–24; The Frame, Digital ArtMile, Art Basel 2024

teia.cafe · Verify all claims on-chain: ryangtanaka.eth · ryangtanaka.tez · tecca.tez

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The ask

Raising $200K to grow from TEIA to the whole web.

$200K

Post-money SAFE · valuations negotiable

Q1 2027

target close

12 months

of runway

Growth path

Now

TEIA

Registry and scans, live now.

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2028

All of Tezos

Index every Tezos project.

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2029+

Other chains

Same checks for tokenized art on every chain.

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Long term

The web

Images, audio and video, anywhere online.

Use of funds: founders & dev 75% · outreach 15% · infra & AI 10%

Past funders: the TEIA community and the Tezos Foundation.

“e.c.o.” (animated) by Merchant Coppola (TEIA Core Team)

teia.cafe · Detailed budget available on request

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Proof. Protection.Peace of Mind.

Your work is copied faster than you can prove it’s yours.

Proof. Protection. Peace of Mind.

Proof: Register

Protection: Watermark

Peace of Mind: Enforce

Proof. Protection. Peace of Mind.

Register

Watermark

Enforce

“It can be bypassed.”

“It isn’t legally recognized.”

“Berne says registration can’t be required.”

“Anyone set on copying will find a way.”

The law now asks AI to give credit.

AI models must show what they learned from

Training data, out in the open

$1.5B for unlicensed training

AI output must be marked – and already is

Faster, cheaper, better.

Combining these technologies solves the puzzle.

A $3B market for proof and licensing, a need that will grow over time.

TEIA

All of Tezos

Other chains

Every creator

Pay per use, priced for artists.

Copy scans

Evidence packs

Licensing

Analytics

Network fees

TEIA uses the blockchain as it was intended.

10 DAO-funded art events in 4 months, 3 continents. 10 more on the way.

Affordable for every artist

A record that never splits

No single owner

An active art community

Room to grow, on one chain

Two founders with a unique blend of expertise.

Ryan Tanaka

Johannes Simon

Raising $200K to grow from TEIA to the whole web.

Growth path

TEIA

All of Tezos

Other chains

The web

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Proof. Protection.
Peace of Mind.