Intertrust MarketMaker FAQ – Your questions answered

Intertrust MarketMaker combines Web3, token rights management, and digital rights management (DRM) technologies to give creators, digital marketplace operators, and media companies the capability and tools to create new innovative business models. It offers greater trust and control over a wide variety of content types and is bundled as a solution toolkit based on the Intertrust Platform.

• Supports a wide variety of business models based on protected content, including NFTs (non-fungible tokens), subscriptions, rentals, auctions, superdistribution, fractional ownership, and gifting
• Works with different types of digital content such as video, audio, and still images; it can also be associated with physical objects
• Enables transactions via traditional payment systems, such as credit cards, as well as crypto wallets
• Works across many distribution systems
• Operates as blockchain agnostic
• Supports all major DRM technologies including Marlin

Intertrust MarketMaker creates Web3-based platforms, including all the necessary infrastructure services to enable creators and rights holders to launch their own marketplace. Use cases include: 

Video marketplaces

Creators can use new business models such as allowing fans to throw viewing parties and share the proceeds.

Music

A growing number of musicians have turned to blockchain technology to mint and preserve everything from digital music to album art to memorabilia.

Sport NFTs 

Sports is a growing segment in the NFT market, and sports fans use NFTs to collect digital trading cards, virtual memorabilia, and more.

Ticketing

Unlike traditional ticketing, tickets on a blockchain can act as access passes to any live or virtual event, which provides a secure and convenient option that reduces the risk of scams and scalping due to higher transparency and authenticity verification.

Gaming 

Popular play-to-earn games reward players with real-world economic incentives and in-game assets such as virtual land, avatars, weapons, and costumes, which can then be taken out of the game and traded or sold on marketplaces.

Art and collectibles

NFTs allow collectors to purchase and enjoy and distribute digital assets in new ways such as offering limited “viewing parties” and resale with the original artist participating in the incremental profitshare.

Fashion and luxury Goods

NFTs in the form of clothing have gained popularity not just as collectibles, but statement pieces. Physical goods can contain NFC chips (invisible and unremovable) to confirm authenticity and provenance for resale. Avatars can wear these “digital twins” when they socialize with friends, attend a concert, or meet in the virtual world.

Food and drink

The F&B industry has been building what is commonly known as the “foodverse,” a subset of the metaverse where recipes, ingredients, and entire dishes can be bought and sold with smart contracts.

Supply chain

The global supply chain uses blockchain technology to improve tracking and transparency, make payments more efficient, promote more ethical and sustainable sourcing methods, and much more. Protected virtual objects, specifically, can make it easier to verify and track items as they go along the supply chain, from raw materials to finished products

Intertrust MarketMaker is built on Intertrust Platform and leverages the Platform’s Token Rights Management (TRM) and ExpressPlay digital rights management (DRM) features. 

Intertrust Platform 

Intertrust Platform is a suite of services designed to enable secure edge-to-cloud communication and the creation of trusted data ecosystems. The Platform provides an end-to-end trust stack that accelerates the creation of digital business value without compromising security or regulatory compliance.

Intertrust Token Rights Management (TRM)

Intertrust Platform TRM is a revolutionary distributed governance technology that provides support for distributed authentication and authorization systems. Intertrust TRM supports traditional data and DRM applications, blockchains, and standards-based Digital Twins for hardware device security.

Intertrust ExpressPlay 

ExpressPlay DRM consists of a cloud-based and studio-trusted multi-DRM service, unique broadcast TV security, comprehensive anti-piracy services, and an offline multi-DRM platform.

MarketMaker requires a one time set-up fee. Afterward, transaction fees related to the digital assets will occur. For more details, please contact your Intertrust sales representative at www.intertrust.com/contact-sales

Intertrust MarketMaker is available now. The first marketplaces for different use cases have launched. Talk to us today and get yours off the ground: www.intertrust.com/contact-sales

TRM is a feature of the Intertrust Platform, while MarketMaker is a solution toolkit built on the Intertrust Platform and that uses TRM technology.

Please contact your Intertrust sales representative at www.intertrust.com/contact-sales

Intertrust’s MarketMaker is blockchain agnostic. Our TRM technology supports the blockchain of your choice. We support the Flow blockchain by default, which is the same blockchain used by the NBA, NFL, and UFC NFT marketplaces.

Intertrust MarketMaker offers the following unique features: 

Multi-distribution model support. MarketMaker supports several distribution models with NFTs being one of them.

Blockchain agnostic. MarketMaker is blockchain agnostic. Our TRM technology supports the blockchain of your choice. We support the Flow blockchain by default, which is the same blockchain used by the NBA, NFL, and UFC NFT marketplaces.

DRM & anti-piracy content protection. ​​Media rights owners’ copyrights are enforced with Intertrust ExpressPlay, Intertrust’s pioneering DRM technology. MarketMaker supports all major native DRMs and enforces the business models and usage rules defined by the marketplace operator. 

Fractional ownership. MarketMaker supports buying and selling fractions of copyright. 

FIAT and cryptocurrencies. MarketMaker accepts crypto or fiat currency payments through the third-party payment gateway of your choice.

Secure content processing and distribution. MarketMaker provides a media upload, processing, and distribution service as part of its solution.

Reference implementation included. MarketMaker includes source code of a reference NFT marketplace implementation free-of-charge, to help accelerate your implementation.

Intertrust MarketMaker is a software-as-a-service integration. Intertrust provides infrastructure services to build and operate Web3-enabled marketplaces. 

Intertrust MarketMaker uses REST APIs, so service providers that build Web3 marketplaces are not required to have any special knowledge of blockchain or DRM. Intertrust further provides MarketMaker reference codes for free, so service providers can jump start their development.

Work directly with our team to protect the digital assets associated with smart contracts to prevent unauthorized duplication and consumption of content, and enable monetization of assets. Contact us at www.intertrust.com/contact-sales.

Intertrust MarketMaker is supported as all other Intertrust product and solution toolkits based on the service level agreement (SLA).