The gap
Artists in BRICS+ countries lose revenue to platforms that don't speak their payment rails, don't respect their data jurisdiction, and don't read rights from the file.
Western platforms, Western rails
Spotify, YouTube and sample libraries settle through SWIFT, Stripe and US banking. An artist in São Paulo, Mumbai or Johannesburg waits months for payouts that lose 15–30% to intermediaries.
Rights locked in PDFs
License terms are unreadable by machines. No player, label pipeline or AI service can answer: who owns this, can I use it, what does a derivative cost?
Detection ≠ settlement
Content-ID tools identify audio and issue takedowns. Nothing in their stack routes money to the rightsholder — especially across borders where the rails don't connect.
How it works
Identification — perceptual fingerprint
A 256-byte spectrogram fingerprint robust to re-encoding, format conversion, pitch and tempo shifts of ±8%. Numeric verdicts frozen by spec: ≥0.90 — same track; 0.75–0.90 — derivative; <0.75 — different. Windowed v2 signatures find fragments and cuts, with per-source attribution for multi-sample works.
Rights manifest inside the file
Every work gets an NDP-ID and an NDT manifest: authors, splits, license tier — embedded in the audio itself. Derivative chains are stored in the registry; a paid derivative automatically compensates every upstream contributor, up to 10 levels deep.
Cascade settlement over your rails
A usage event → fingerprint check → splits computed to the cent → payouts routed over the payment rail of each participant's jurisdiction. NDP is the settlement-logic layer; money moves on existing national infrastructure.
Payment rails for BRICS+
NDP is rail-agnostic by design. Each participant settles on the instant-payment infrastructure of their own country — no single chokepoint, no currency hegemony.
| Rail | Region | Status in NDP |
|---|---|---|
| SBP / Digital Ruble | Russia | production pilot |
| UPI | India | integration-ready |
| Pix | Brazil | integration-ready |
| CIPS | China | integration-ready |
| local instant rails | UAE, Egypt, Ethiopia, … | adapter layer |
The settlement engine computes obligations in minor units and routes each payout to the appropriate rail. Adding a new rail is an adapter, not a protocol change.
Data sovereignty
Your jurisdiction, your rules
Personal data is stored as cryptographic commitments — never raw. The registry can be deployed in-country; a BRICS+ partner runs the same open protocol under their own data-protection law.
No platform dependency
The rights manifest travels inside the audio file itself. Even if NDP disappears tomorrow, the fingerprint, splits and priority timestamp remain verifiable in every copy.
Open protocol, no token
No cryptocurrency, no tokenomics, no governance by a foreign DAO. A non-profit operator in each jurisdiction can run the registry. The protocol is the standard, not the platform.
Who it serves
Artists & producers
"Scan your catalog" — every track gets a fingerprint, a priority timestamp and verified splits. When your work is sampled, remixed or synced, you get paid automatically — in your currency, on your rail.
Labels & distributors
DDEX ERN feeds land in the registry as drafts; fingerprints are registered at catalog scale. Cascade splits flow to every upstream contributor without manual accounting.
Platforms & AI services
Query rights by ISRC, identify audio by fingerprint, get a numeric verdict. 21 MCP/API tools for AI agents. Your platform clears usage by reading the file — no legal overhead per track.
Engineering readiness
| Component | State | Verified by |
|---|---|---|
| CLI v0.7.1 | works | ADNA v1+v2 fingerprints, signed play receipts, offline verification, bilingual RU/EN |
| Registry API 0.13.0 | works | cascade splits, multi-currency settlement, DDEX ERN import, artist ID cards |
| Identification oracle | works | HTTP API: fingerprint lookup, numeric verdicts, per-source attribution |
| MCP server | works | 21 agent tools (SSE + HTTP), sandbox keys, Bearer auth |
| Test suites | 241 green | 109 (contracts) + 128 (registry) + 4 (payments) |
What NDP is not
Not a payment system
Money moves on existing national rails. NDP is the identification, clearance and settlement-logic layer on top.
Not enforcement
We provide proof, priority and a payout route — never takedowns or policing.
Not surveillance
Verdicts are strictly about rights: authorship, priority, license scope. No content policing, no traffic inspection. This boundary enables trust across jurisdictions.