Digital Asset Aging and Grading on Blockchain
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for creating digital media assets, such as NFTs, lack the ability to generate distinguishing factors between multiple reproductions, making it difficult to differentiate and grade collectibility and rarity.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a computer-implemented method that modifies digital assets to provide unique aging and grading effects, secures these modifications to a blockchain, and determines a grade based on a sequential or randomized grading curve, allowing for the creation of verifiably unique digital assets.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If digital assets are created as immutable reproductions at mint, then manufacturing efficiency and ease of reproduction are improved, but the ability to differentiate and grade individual assets is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies aging effects and assigns grades to digital assets at the time of minting or shortly thereafter, rather than attempting to differentiate immutable reproductions later. This preliminary action creates distinguishing characteristics before the assets enter circulation, resolving the contradiction by establishing uniqueness upfront while maintaining efficient reproduction capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different aging effects and grade assignments to individual digital assets, creating local variations in quality characteristics. Each asset receives unique modifications such as different levels of wear, tear, or degradation effects, allowing differentiation while maintaining the overall reproduction framework.
2Manufacturing precision
If digital assets are modified to provide aging effects, then asset differentiation and grading capability are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs automated algorithms and computational models that independently apply aging effects and determine grades without requiring complex manual intervention. The self-service nature of the automated grading process reduces operational complexity while maintaining high differentiation capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent modifies digital assets by changing specific parameters such as color values, texture properties, and degradation metrics to create aging effects. By adjusting these parameters systematically, the system achieves sophisticated differentiation without requiring fundamentally complex system architecture.
3Speed
If grading is determined automatically upon modification, then processing speed is improved, but grading accuracy may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where grading algorithms continuously refine their assessments based on accumulated data and established criteria. The automated process uses feedback loops to validate and adjust grade assignments, ensuring accuracy is maintained even as processing speed increases.
Solution Approach 2:
Grading criteria and aging effect parameters are pre-established and configured before the automated grading process begins. This preliminary setup allows the system to execute rapid automated grading while maintaining consistent accuracy standards, as the decision-making framework is already in place.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for generating distinguishing factors between multiple reproductions of a digital asset. As an example, unique aging and grading of digital assets are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method for maintaining a digital asset is disclosed. The computer implemented method includes receiving the digital asset, wherein the digital asset is associated with a blockchain. The computer implemented method further includes modifying the digital asset to provide a first effect; securing the first modified digital asset to the blockchain; determining a grade of the modified digital asset; and securing the grade to the blockchain. an alternate blockchain, a sidechain, and/or a server host.