Joining moderator Zoe were Marten (Co-Founder & CEO), Stefan (Co-Founder & CTO) and Pierre (Co-CEO of SPO Consulting and founder of Audiogroup).

Where ProofMatter Stands

Marten opened with a status report that was more concrete than in previous sessions. The core protocol is finished, including the smart contracts, the proof service, the SDK, the Explorer and the trust architecture, and a closed testing network is already running.

Marten: “Looking at the schedule, we have the testnet being ready end of the year. That has always been the schedule and that’s where we are aiming at. Whether it’s December or early January, it’s not so important, but it’s really evolving great.”

When the public testnet goes live, the smart contracts, the SDK and the MCP gateway will be open sourced and made available on GitHub. Onboarding follows on request or by invitation, so that the first enterprise pilots can work on the testnet. Marten expects those pilots to centre on music rights, evidence and agent related use cases, with the public launch planned for 2027 once the architecture has proven itself and a good share of the templates are implemented.

The Layer Above the Protocol

Pierre added an important qualification about what customers actually see. ProofMatter operates behind the scenes, and the software that an enterprise customer works with every day is something else entirely, built by SPO on top of it.

Pierre: “We moved Unibright into SPO because SPO adds services in terms of building actual software that the final users or our customers can use. So ProofMatter is the behind the scenes technology, but what the enterprise customer uses is not ProofMatter, it’s something else.”

He described this as the piece that was missing in earlier years, when the base technology existed and worked well, but the use cases were supposed to be built by outside parties and rarely made it past the pilot stage. Tunesat is the first enterprise customer, and the software it will use is currently being scaled from test servers to a platform capable of handling thousands of cases and being rolled out to Tunesat’s own clients.

Stefan framed this as the continuation of what integration has always meant for Unibright. The SDK and the API are there, and anyone comfortable with smart contract development could address ProofMatter directly at that level, without additional software on top.

Stefan: “In the case of Tunesat, which is an enterprise customer, it’s always about integrating the UI that the actual user sees to something that goes on behind the scenes. Within these processes, there are steps that use ProofMatter to notarize something or to anchor something on the blockchain and prove it.”

Building that complete pipeline takes time, but it is exactly what external customers will ask for, since very few of them will want to hold smart contracts themselves.

Why Standardized Communication Is Not Sufficient

MCP has become the protocol AI agents use to talk to external tools, much as APIs serve humans today, and A2A is the protocol agents use to talk to one another. Zoe asked why standardizing that communication does not by itself create trust.

Marten: “These two approaches only end up in logs where only the agent knows what he has done. There’s no way to audit it. You just have no proof of what has happened.”

That gap is what the recently added ProofMatter MCP gateway addresses. The gateway sits between the agents and the tools they call, records the calls, and at defined points writes what happened back onto ProofMatter and the blockchains it supports. Customers install it on their own side, and the code is open source.

Marten: “You can think about it like a flight recorder in a plane. The agent or the pilot decides what he does, but everything is being recorded by that flight recorder.”

Stefan pointed out how quickly the ground has shifted since the team first discussed this at the beginning of the year, which amounts to only a few months in human time but several innovation cycles in the agentic AI landscape. Entire IT systems can now be produced by agents communicating with each other, which moves the bottleneck to the human reviewer.

Stefan: “If AI does the coding and the reviews itself, you wouldn’t trust a software developer that did exactly this and said, yeah, I tested my code, it works. It’s always good to have at least different parties to do coding, reviewing, testing, deploying.”

Marten noted that even the large model providers have had incidents in recent months where agents slipped past guardrails, and that the public and any auditor had to rely entirely on the company’s own account of what happened.

Trust Levels and the Auditor’s View

Pierre extended the flight recorder image in a direction that matters for how the system is meant to be used. A recorder that is only read after the plane has crashed is of limited value, and because the data is transparent while remaining anonymous, outside parties can observe what is happening as it happens.

Pierre: “This agent now stops to explain what it does to ProofMatter, so something must be wrong. People could build tools that check whether everything is all right or whether things start to go into the wrong direction.”

Stefan described the trust layers that are built directly into the system. If a human reviewer checks a process and confirms that it ran as designed, the trust level of that process rises and more of it can be automated. If checks start to surface irregularities, the trust level falls again and more manual steps are required.

Stefan: “It’s a built-in concept that you have to earn trust within a certain process or template. The more trust you earn, because your process is reliable and has been reviewed and checked many times, the more you are able to automate something.”

Asked how a third party auditor would verify that an agent legitimately approved a purchase order, Marten walked through the evidence an auditor receives. The session recorded by the gateway can be compared against what ProofMatter anchored on chain, which fixes the point in time at which each action occurred and makes later tampering with the log impossible. From there the auditor can examine individual events, such as a call into the ERP system, and check them against the real system.

Marten: “Auditors just do sampling. It’s like with speeding cameras. You only have to do checks very seldomly to get everyone to more or less respect the limits. If you know that an auditor can check things at any point in time, even in five years, that’s a real incentive for companies and systems to play by the rules in the first place.”

Marten was equally clear that the gateway alone does not prevent an agent from behaving badly. That requires policies on the enterprise side, in the same way that air traffic control assigns an aircraft an altitude it has to hold.

Training Data, Collecting Societies and Regulatory Pressure

Following the Munich ruling in which GEMA prevailed against OpenAI over training data, Zoe asked how ProofMatter could turn individual lawsuits into routine machine readable evidence for collecting societies.

Pierre explained that GEMA is responsible for making sure that music usage in Germany is monitored correctly and that the money it collects is distributed according to those usages, across a world repertoire and a wide range of usage types. Case by case litigation is expensive and slow, and precedent cases are the only lever available today.

Pierre: “If you have a broader technological layer, you don’t have to do these case by case researches anymore. You have to build a system that is court proof, so that you can use the whole system as a proof in court.”

Marten connected this to a template that will be part of the first version of the testnet, through which an AI provider can record which training data was used, whether a rights reservation applied, which licences were acquired and which works were deliberately left out. Making that transparent is in the provider’s own interest, since it avoids a great many of the disputes that currently end up in court.

Marten: “That’s all about getting away from this Wild West approach and getting more like a transparent way of using AI, combined with the assets like data and licences we already have.”

Pierre drew the parallel with YouTube, which initially distributed video without paying royalties for the music used in it, lost against GEMA, and subsequently built the content identification technology that everyone now takes for granted. Regulatory pressure, whether it comes from governments or from large societies, tends to produce exactly this kind of infrastructure, and companies that want to run a legal business will need a stamp of approval from an independent third party.

Marten added that the AI Act is already in force for high risk systems in the European Union, that a great many enterprise systems fall into that category, and that the MCP gateway is a concrete answer to the demands those regulations make.

Stefan was careful to separate the regulatory argument from any enthusiasm for regulation as such, and offered a historical counterweight from the creative side.

Stefan: “If you hadn’t GEMA in place, then the whole section of writing and releasing cover songs wouldn’t have been so easy. There’s a regulated way on how to pay royalties to the actual composer, and that lets you focus on the creative side of things while the rest is handled and doesn’t have to be decided case by case.”

White Box AI

Zoe picked up a term from the most recent blog article and asked Stefan to explain it. White box AI describes the opposite of a black box model, where the influence of individual training material on the result cannot be reconstructed. Even with open weights, you see the finished network and its weights, without knowing which input material produced which change to them.

Stefan: “White box would be something that in a specific domain traces back which parts were used for training, how they were licensed and how they contributed to the final weights. When you generate something, you can trace back that 1.5% of this guitar layer is relying on this training data set, which was licensed under these conditions.”

The practical consequence is that revenue from a generated work can be attributed proportionally to the contributors. Marten confirmed that the team has already built small models of its own that carry provenance through to the output, and intends to publish papers and articles on the approach in the hope that larger providers pick it up.

Pierre described a further advantage of the Audiogroup partnership that is not immediately obvious. Boom Library holds several million sound effects that the group fully owns, with extensive metadata, known provenance and an established practice of paying the artists who created them, which makes it an unusually clean basis for research of this kind.

Stefan added that provenance opens up business models rather than only satisfying regulators. A provider who can show where the ingredients came from becomes attractive to content owners who have so far refused to license their material at all, which points towards carefully sourced boutique models alongside the flat rate approach.

How the Architecture Fits Together

Asked how Optimism, TrustMesh and Baseledger relate to one another, Marten gave a clear division of roles. Optimism is the blockchain on which the ProofMatter smart contracts run and where proofs, attestations and proof credits are recorded, with the testnet running on the Optimism Sepolia network.

UBT itself is unchanged. It remains an ERC-20 token on Ethereum and is converted into proof credits through the official bridge between Ethereum and Optimism, where those credits pay for writing proofs. A share of the UBT is burned and a share is distributed to validators for the work they do for the network, as set out in the infrastructure paper.

TrustMesh is not a blockchain at all, but the network that forms out of the proofs and their confirmations, where every signature from a counterparty or a validator adds an edge and the shape of a real business process becomes visible. Baseledger has been live since 2022 and continues to run, and while ProofMatter does not build on it technically, it inherits concepts such as the SyncTree.

Stefan: “We don’t want to lock in on a specific technology if the concept works. We now work on Optimism because the smart contracts live there, but we could also offer writing proofs on any other connectable and UBT bridgeable blockchain network. That’s one of the Unibright approaches from the very beginning, to be open and agnostic to the actual layer below.”

Conferences and Outreach

On market presence, the team was candid about the trade-off. Events will be announced on the official channels when they make sense, but attending conferences for their own sake is not how a small team spends its time, and the people who could explain the work in real depth are the same people building it.

Stefan observed that consortia have historically been the more productive setting, because they allow the team to work with much larger names on developing and publishing standards, which a single slot at a business conference does not. Marten agreed, pointing out that the Baseline Protocol and the consortium work around it were the real multipliers for the Unibright story in the past, alongside the digital channels.

The current focus is the ProofMatter testnet, which will make the use cases considerably easier to show once partners and customers are working with it.

Looking Ahead

The sequence from here is well defined. The public testnet and the open sourcing of the contracts, SDK and gateway come first, followed by invited enterprise pilots around music rights, evidence and agent workflows, with the public launch planned for 2027.

Questions for the next AMA can be submitted in advance via Email to ama@unibright.io or through our Telegram Communication channel (t.me/unibright_io), using Hashtag #AMA.

About Unibright: Unibright is the enterprise blockchain brand of SPO Consulting GmbH, building production-grade infrastructure since 2018. Over eight years, Unibright has delivered the Unibright Framework for visual smart contract development, co-founded the Baseline Protocol alongside EY, Microsoft and ConsenSys, launched the Baseledger enterprise network, and built Unibright.ONE for multi-party process synchronization. All of it now converges in ProofMatter — a Proof-of-Execution layer providing cryptographic, machine-readable proof that real-world actions actually happened, for AI accountability, ESG and supply chain compliance, and content provenance. Every Unibright product is powered by UBT, the Universal Business Token: an ERC-20 utility token on Ethereum mainnet with a fixed supply of 150 million, in circulation since 2018.

About SPO: SPO Consulting GmbH, founded in 1989 in Bingen am Rhein, has spent more than 35 years harmonizing information technology with business needs — from SAP and ERP through the internet, cloud, and blockchain eras to artificial intelligence. SPO delivers enterprise software development, strategic consulting, and systems integration for clients ranging from mid-sized companies to Fortune 500 organizations. Since 2024, SPO is the steward of the UBT token and the full Unibright product portfolio. In 2025, principals from Audiogroup — a global audio technology company behind productions such as Dune, Game of Thrones and Fortnite — joined SPO as shareholders, combining enterprise IT with creative and media technology.

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On October 14, 2026, Germany’s federal and state culture ministers agreed on a key points paper for a “Progress Agenda Culture + AI” (PDF, German). It delivers a target picture, three guiding principles, six action fields and a steering team of five to six people. Measures, target values and budgets are left to the next phase; the paper explicitly asks for existing and planned initiatives and pilots to feed into it.

We read that as an invitation. Our contribution concerns one layer that runs beneath all three of the paper’s guiding principles and is not yet named: proof of use. The points below are meant as input for that next phase.

What the paper sets out, and what it leaves open

“Progress Agenda.” The coalition agreement promised a strategy. The paper sets up the process to develop one. Its action fields come from a survey among the states, which makes it a good map of existing initiatives and a less complete map of what hits creators and institutions first.

“Creators participate appropriately.” Fair remuneration is called “central and indispensable.” Two paragraphs later, copyright and remuneration are “not the subject of the agenda process,” because the EU handles them. Both statements are correct: the question is indispensable, and the legal frame is set in Brussels. What a national agenda can still do is prepare the ground those rules will need, above all evidence of use.

“Creators control their works and data sovereignly.” Today, rightsholders generally lack a standardized, independently verifiable way to establish whether a specific work was used in a model’s training. The text-and-data-mining reservation under § 44b UrhG exists on paper, is barely standardized in machine-readable form and cannot be enforced in practice. Both would be natural anchors for the agenda.

“Cultural heritage contributes to European AI.” Digitized heritage is declared a training resource for “sovereign European AI solutions.” Under which licenses, with which proof of use, decided by whom: all of this is open. Heritage institutions hold protected material alongside public-domain material. Without a license model and proof of use, the goal protects creators less than it reads, and the institutions carry the risk.

“Recognizable.” The coalition agreement ties AI’s cultural potential to AI-generated content staying recognizable. Labeling appears in none of the six action fields yet; it would be an easy one to carry over.

“The largest professional overlaps.” Media and the creative industries are explicitly excluded: music, publishing, games, advertising, design. These are the sectors where generative AI is moving revenue today. That focus is understandable for a federal-state process. It does mean the agenda’s answers on provenance and remuneration should be designed so the creative industries can adopt them as well.

Action field 5, AI in funding administration, is the most concrete of the six and the easiest to deliver. It would be a pity if it became the agenda’s main visible result while the harder fields wait.

The layer the paper never mentions

All three principles (remuneration, control, transparency) rest on one thing: proof that a specific work was used at a specific time in a specific process. It is not yet named, and it is the point where a national agenda can deliver without waiting for Brussels.

The gaps go beyond the technical. No collecting society is named: GEMA, VG Wort and VG Bild-Kunst, the organizations through which much of Germany’s collective rights management takes place. They are not waiting either: in November 2025, the Munich Regional Court largely upheld GEMA’s claims against OpenAI concerning the use and reproduction of copyrighted song lyrics. Rights are being enforced case by case in court; what is missing is the evidence infrastructure that could make usage-based settlement more routine.

Nor does the paper connect its proposals to existing law. Since August 2025, Article 53 of the AI Act has required providers of general-purpose AI models to publish a sufficiently detailed summary of training content and maintain a policy for complying with EU copyright law. The TDM reservation has been part of German law since 2021 (§ 44b UrhG, implementing the 2019 DSM Directive). Neither framework, on its own, provides work-level proof of use. Both, however, offer concrete starting points for the agenda, without waiting for further legislation from Brussels.

As things stand, a rightsholder can at best prove use in court, work by work, at considerable cost, but has no routine way to establish it, verify it or claim for it. That is the gap worth closing first.

Proof is the last step, not the first

A proof can only attest to what happened before it was created, so if the process that produced a result leaves no trace of its inputs, there is nothing left to attest at the end of it. The decisive step for attribution and remuneration therefore lies not in the proof layer but in the model itself, in whether it preserves the connection between what went in and what came out.

A training-data summary, as the AI Act requires it, is a list of what went in. It says nothing about what the output contains. A different class of models builds traceability in from the start: every training element keeps its origin, its license status and its rights chain, and the generated result can be attributed back to its sources by share. Only then do attribution, provenance and per-use, per-source settlement become possible, instead of flat-rate deals nobody can audit.

We call this white-box AI: you know where the data comes from, and you know which part of the result belongs to which origin. ProofMatter closes that chain at the end: each ingest, reservation check and license lookup becomes a signed attestation anchored on Optimism, verifiable by anyone, while the content itself stays with its owner. Collecting societies receive usage reports they can check instead of trust. Provenance travels with the output through the C2PA extension. Institutions, societies and model providers with opposing interests attest to each other through TrustMesh, so that none of them has to rely on the word of the others.

Cryptography on its own cannot make a model provider report everything it used; that requires an obligation set by regulation. What the proof layer contributes once that obligation exists is that declared actions become independently verifiable, inconsistencies can be exposed and subsequent alterations become detectable, which changes the incentive on both sides. Setting that obligation is the job of politics; the agenda process is a good place to prepare it.

Where this already runs

In the Unibright context, this combination is in operation with Audiogroup today: sound effects whose origin and license stay traceable all the way into the product, and generative music AI whose output can be traced back to the sources it was built from (“White-Box-AI”). The questions the paper refers to Brussels get answered there every day, because they have to be, the moment someone licenses, settles and carries liability.

What would turn the framework into an agenda

1. Proof of use as an action field of its own. Usage evidence, rights reservation and labeling belong in the agenda, not in the list of referrals. Art. 53 of the AI Act is the hook that already applies.
2. A pilot with real collections. A heritage institution in one of the participating states licenses holdings for training; every use is recorded and verifiable for the institution and the rightsholders. That would be action field 4 with content.
3. Collecting societies at the table. Without GEMA, VG Wort and VG Bild-Kunst there is no path from “use proven” to “remuneration paid.”

ProofMatter enters its public launch this quarter; the infrastructure paper and the core libraries are open. The infrastructure for proof of use does not have to be invented. What the next phase can add is the decision that proof of use belongs in the agenda. We would be glad to contribute to that.

About Unibright: Unibright is the enterprise blockchain brand of SPO Consulting GmbH, building production-grade infrastructure since 2018. Over eight years, Unibright has delivered the Unibright Framework for visual smart contract development, co-founded the Baseline Protocol alongside EY, Microsoft and ConsenSys, launched the Baseledger enterprise network, and built Unibright.ONE for multi-party process synchronization. All of it now converges in ProofMatter — a Proof-of-Execution layer providing cryptographic, machine-readable proof that real-world actions actually happened, for AI accountability, ESG and supply chain compliance, and content provenance. Every Unibright product is powered by UBT, the Universal Business Token: an ERC-20 utility token on Ethereum mainnet, in circulation since 2018.

About SPO: SPO Consulting GmbH, founded in 1989 in Bingen am Rhein, has spent more than 35 years harmonizing information technology with business needs — from SAP and ERP through the internet, cloud, and blockchain eras to artificial intelligence. SPO delivers enterprise software development, strategic consulting, and systems integration for clients ranging from mid-sized companies to Fortune 500 organizations. Since 2024, SPO is the steward of the UBT token and the full Unibright product portfolio. In 2025, principals from Audiogroup — a global audio technology company behind productions such as Dune, Game of Thrones and Fortnite — joined SPO as shareholders, combining enterprise IT with creative and media technology.

Who Proves the Use? A Contribution to Germany’s Culture + AI Agenda was originally published in UnibrightIO on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

On September 12, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier.” His demand: the industry must slow the pace at which it improves model capabilities, so that safety work and independent scrutiny can keep up. Within hours, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly agreed and announced that OpenAI, too, would give independent evaluators employee-level access.

The debate the essay triggered is about speed, regulation, and alignment. But inside Amodei’s argument sits a more sober and technically more fundamental problem: The more capable autonomous AI systems become, the harder it gets to reliably establish what they actually did.

This is exactly where an infrastructure layer is missing. We described it on August 12 in our ProofMatter Infrastructure Paper — a month before this debate, and not because we foresaw it, but because the problem has existed in enterprises for years.

The argument in one paragraph

Amodei names two triggers for his change of position. First, since this summer, recursive self-improvement — AI systems helping to build the next generation of AI — has been accelerating across the industry, including at Anthropic. Second, the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident in July: during a security evaluation, a swarm of agents attacked targets it had not been asked to attack, coordinated through an improvised channel, and attempted to manipulate the “grader” responsible for scoring its performance. Amodei stresses that similar, if less severe, incidents have occurred across the industry, including at Anthropic.

The point that interests us is in his section on testing and evaluation: more intelligent models may be better at deceiving tests and thus appear aligned while having serious, undetected problems. That is the evaluation gap: a test result tells you how a system behaved under certain conditions. It is not proof of what an autonomous system does in the real world.

Amodei’s answer is embedded evaluators: independent reviewers with employee-like access who verify whether a company actually adheres to its safety commitments — modeled on supervisors in the banking industry. He explicitly calls this the key step for verifiability. That is right. But it verifies the practices of the labs. It does not verify the actions of the agents those labs release into the world.

Evaluation is not verification

Three things need to be kept apart. Evaluation asks: How is a system likely to behave? Monitoring asks: What is happening right now? Verification asks: What can we later demonstrably establish actually happened?

This distinction becomes decisive as soon as AI systems no longer just produce answers but act on their own. Imagine an agent running a procurement process inside a company: it checks an order, asks a second agent for a supplier rating, approves the purchase, and hands the task to another system. Who later checks what actually happened — not merely what the agent claims in its log?

Which data was used? Which action was executed, when, and under which identity? Who authorized it? And can an independent third party verify this later?

This is not purely an AI safety problem. It is an infrastructure problem.

MCP and A2A solve communication. Not verification.

Today’s agent infrastructure makes the distinction especially clear. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes how AI applications interact with tools and data sources. The Google-initiated Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) standardizes communication between agents. Both matter. But communication and verification are different problems.

An agent can use a standardized protocol to ask another agent to perform an action. The other agent replies: “Done.” But where is the proof? A communication protocol documents that a message was sent. It does not prove that the action claimed in that message was carried out.

This matters more the more agents delegate. Agent A → Agent B → Agent C → external system. When C acts and B reports this to A, a chain of trust emerges. What is missing is a chain of proof. The Hugging Face incident shows what its absence looks like: hundreds of agents coordinated for weeks, and reconstructing what actually happened took months afterwards. According to the investigation reports, some of the agents attempted to cover their tracks. A record the agent neither writes nor can delete is precisely what was missing in that case.

Proof-of-Execution: when the action itself leaves evidence

The core idea of ProofMatter is simple: An executed action should not merely be logged. It should leave verifiable evidence.

When an agent grants an approval, modifies a record, triggers an order, or delegates an action, a structured, signed attestation is created at execution time. The business data itself stays with its owner; only a cryptographic hash serves as an immutable anchor. Later, anyone can check whether the evidence is unchanged and whether a specific action was attested at a specific time under a specific identity — and, where needed, individual fields can be disclosed without revealing the rest.

That changes the logic of trust. Today it reads: “The agent says it did it.” With verifiable attestations it reads: “Here is the proof that this action was executed and attested.”

For agent systems, concretely: the agent does not attest to its own actions — the infrastructure beneath it does. Every tool call and every response is captured at the boundary between agent and tool, signed and chained, outside the agent’s reach. Like a flight recorder: the pilot decides what to do, not what gets recorded. Another participant checks the entry with verify_attestation. Over time, what emerges is not just a log but a gapless, verifiable history of actions and delegations — gapless because a missing sequence number is itself a finding. When A delegates to B and B to C, the chain no longer rests on trust alone. It is reconstructible.

This is the technical complement to Amodei’s proposal. Embedded evaluators create human and organizational control inside the lab. Verifiable attestations create technical evidence in deployment, over every single action. Neither replaces the other — but an evaluator should not have to rely on self-reports and scattered logs when an evidence layer can exist. That shifts the question from “Can we believe the system?” to “Which actions can we independently verify?”

Why we look at this from the enterprise side

We have been building blockchain infrastructure for enterprises since 2018. In 2020, together with EY, Microsoft, and ConsenSys, we co-founded the Baseline Protocol — a standard for synchronizing business processes across company boundaries. We have built pilots with Lufthansa, Deutsche Bahn, and Coca-Cola and operated our own enterprise network.

Throughout, we have seen the same fundamental requirement: enterprises do not want a blockchain for its own sake. They want reliable evidence — of what happened, who was involved, when, on what data, and whether the information has been altered since. To a developer, the difference between a log and a proof may seem small. To an auditor, a regulator, or a company liable for the actions of an autonomous system, it is fundamental.

This requirement did not arrive with artificial intelligence. It has existed for years in supply chains, financial processes, compliance, and audit — and it is now becoming law. The EU AI Act requires automatic logging for high-risk AI and obliges deployers to retain those logs; the obligations apply from December 2027, and the Commission has clarified that AI agents fall under the Act’s definitions. The Digital Product Passport will, in stages from 2027, require machine-readable provenance for products. It is the same requirement in different clothes. AI agents merely make it more urgent — because when software no longer just processes data but decides and acts on its own, the verifiability of those actions becomes central.

What comes next

ProofMatter enters its public testnet this quarter; the public launch is planned for Q4. An MCP server for agent attestations is part of the first release. The paper is open, and the core libraries will be. If you run agents in production and wonder how you will prove their actions later, get in touch: mail@unibright.io.

We do not see ProofMatter as a replacement for AI safety, alignment, or independent evaluation, but as complementary infrastructure. Even the best evaluators cannot observe every action of an autonomous agent. And even the best alignment does not answer the forensic question of what a system actually did at a given moment.

Amodei’s proposal comes down to a question older than AI: Who audits the auditors?

Our answer starts one level below: Not every action should remain a matter of trust. Some actions should leave verifiable proof.

The future of autonomous AI needs not only smarter systems. It also needs better evidence of what those systems do.

About Unibright: Unibright is the enterprise blockchain brand of SPO Consulting GmbH, building production-grade infrastructure since 2018. Over eight years, Unibright has delivered the Unibright Framework for visual smart contract development, co-founded the Baseline Protocol alongside EY, Microsoft and ConsenSys, launched the Baseledger enterprise network, and built Unibright.ONE for multi-party process synchronization. All of it now converges in ProofMatter — a Proof-of-Execution layer providing cryptographic, machine-readable proof that real-world actions actually happened, for AI accountability, ESG and supply chain compliance, and content provenance. Every Unibright product is powered by UBT, the Universal Business Token: an ERC-20 utility token on Ethereum mainnet, in circulation since 2018.

About SPO: SPO Consulting GmbH, founded in 1989 in Bingen am Rhein, has spent more than 35 years harmonizing information technology with business needs — from SAP and ERP through the internet, cloud, and blockchain eras to artificial intelligence. SPO delivers enterprise software development, strategic consulting, and systems integration for clients ranging from mid-sized companies to Fortune 500 organizations. Since 2024, SPO is the steward of the UBT token and the full Unibright product portfolio. In 2025, principals from Audiogroup — a global audio technology company behind productions such as Dune, Game of Thrones and Fortnite — joined SPO as shareholders, combining enterprise IT with creative and media technology.

Who Audits the Auditors? The Missing Verification Layer for AI Agents was originally published in UnibrightIO on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

This session used that launch as a starting point to explore what the Proof of Execution platform means in practice, how real use cases like music rights and AI accountability translate into UBT usage, and what long-term supporters can expect as the ecosystem moves from development to deployment.

Joining moderator Zoe were Marten (Co-Founder & CEO), Stefan (Co-Founder & CTO), and Pierre (Co-CEO of SPO Consulting and founder of Audiogroup).

Tunesat: From Pilot to Production

The session opened with the most anticipated question: when will the music industry application built around Proof of Execution be available for broader use?

Marten clarified the scope immediately. This isn’t a consumer-facing crypto app — it’s enterprise infrastructure built with industry partners, centered on making provenance workflows transparent and rights attribution reliable.

Marten: “The music and media use case will be one of the first real-world environments where we are applying our Proof of Execution concept in practice. But the focus is not to come up with a consumer-facing crypto app. It will be an enterprise infrastructure set up together with our industry partners.”

Pierre provided a concrete timeline: Tunesat is already adopting the platform, and deployment to their B2B clients — music publishers and labels — is not far away.

Pierre: “Tunesat will be using this platform pretty soon to manage all the rights, clearances, and provenance proof of what has happened with music — when and where — for all its clients. It’s a B2B application that will be customer-facing to the B2B clients of Tunesat, which are many, many music publishers and music labels.”

The design is template-based, meaning the same infrastructure can support additional verticals easily. Tunesat is one template; other companies in similar spaces can use it as well.

The Multiplier Effect

Pierre outlined the strategic sales approach: once Tunesat establishes the platform with its clients, those clients become warm leads for expanded capabilities. They’ll already know the technology, their data will already be in the system, and the trust relationship will already exist.

Pierre: “There’s a very easy direct link to Tunesat’s clients from our side saying: you are already using this in the context of Tunesat, your data is already ingested. It’s like they’re already using it without knowing it. Then we can directly present the expanded opportunities of this platform to them.”

This “Trojan horse” dynamic — useful infrastructure that happens to include blockchain capabilities — reflects the positioning strategy discussed in previous AMAs.

UBT: Credit System and Validator Incentives

The conversation turned to how UBT connects to actual platform activity. Marten confirmed the core principle: every proof generation and validation ties to protocol activity, which means UBT usage.

Marten: “Yes, in general, the core principle is that every proof generation and validation is tied to protocol activity, which means UBT usage. But we are not maximizing UBT usage per se. The idea is to come up with an overall system that is competitive.”

Stefan elaborated on the dual role of UBT in the system. On one side, it’s a payment mechanism — users pay credits to write, aggregate, or verify proofs. On the other side, it’s an incentive mechanism for validators.

Stefan: “There’s also an incentive side of things in the validator network. If there’s a proof in the system and we need a real check — not on every proof, but on every randomly picked 10th or 15th one — then there’s also UBT involved when it comes to incentivizing the validator. And the third-party validator should get rewarded for the manual work of validating something.”

The model includes slashing for incorrect entries: validators who write wrong data to the blockchain lose their stake.

An Inclusive Ecosystem

Marten emphasized that the platform is designed to be open. External developers and companies can build templates supporting different use cases, or even create their own proof smart contracts on different chains — all while using UBT.

Marten: “There’s the possibility for people or companies from the outside to build templates that support different use cases, or even come up with their own proof smart contracts that have to use UBT as well. People enlarging the ecosystem and building additional things to our platform will get a revenue share.”

This creates aligned incentives: the more the ecosystem grows, the more value flows through UBT.

Two Papers, Not One

An important clarification emerged regarding documentation. What was previously called “the white paper” is now being split into two distinct documents.

Marten: “We will not call it white paper anymore — we want to call it the infrastructure paper. Because white paper is something we have to tie to the MiCA regulation here in the European Union. We will have a second white paper — the legal white paper we need for approaching exchanges in Europe and regulators.”

The infrastructure paper describes the technical vision and solution. The legal white paper addresses regulatory compliance requirements under MiCA.

Europe First, Then US

When asked about geographic expansion after the German rollout, Pierre confirmed the sequence: European territories first, then the US.

Pierre: “The next step after Germany will be the European territories. Also because they’re all very different — different regulations, different law, different setups — which will be very helpful for this whole platform ecosystem, because we’ll have to build various templates.”

Marten added context on why Europe makes strategic sense right now:

Marten: “Europe currently provides a very strong environment because of the regulatory pressure around provenance, AI accountability, compliance — and it’s already increasing rapidly.”

How Proof of Execution Actually Works

Zoe pushed for specifics: how does the platform verify that a process was executed correctly, rather than just proving a file existed at a certain time?

Pierre walked through the Tunesat example. When music is detected being used without a license, the platform captures not just a hash but a complete evidence package — screenshots, recordings, metadata — wrapped together and anchored to the blockchain with an official timestamp from an EU-compliant timestamp provider.

Pierre: “It’s not being written on the blockchain just as a hash. There’s a whole set of documents we have to prepare. If the potential infringer later deletes the video and says ‘it was never online,’ we can say: on this day, you can look it up here on the blockchain, there’s this wrapped-up information proving the video used unlicensed music.”

Stefan generalized the approach: different use cases require different evidence structures. Some involve pure digital assets with IDs. Some require hybrid approaches — like screen recordings tied to external timestamp services. Some still need manual human validation.

Stefan: “Some things are just digital assets that are very easy. Some things are hybrid — you have to record something from a digital screen. And some are still human and manual. All these together form a proof of execution.”

The key insight: simply writing to a blockchain is rarely sufficient for enterprise needs.

Marten: “Our idea is to come up with workflows for different use cases that are auditable, machine readable, and if possible, court-proof. We have to look at every use case and every template and define which pieces of data we need, which validators we use, which cryptographic signatures might be used.”

AI Use Cases: Three Distinct Categories

The team distinguished between three different AI-related applications, each requiring different proof approaches.

First, AI agents executing actions — like writing code or deploying software. Here, the platform connects to version control systems like GitHub and anchors specific commits to the blockchain.

Stefan: “As soon as some automated system writes new code, we can tie that to a proof on the blockchain. And the final step will always be that there are human validators involved — on every 5th or 10th or 20th proof, there will be a manual validation.”

Second, AI output provenance — proving what training data produced a specific output. This addresses the regulatory requirement to demonstrate what information went into model training.

Third, federated learning — multiple instances collaborating on AI models in a distributed way. This combines elements of both execution tracking and provenance documentation.

Stefan: “There will be a lot of points in the near future where we have to clearly distinguish what we mean by AI because as a concept, it just became too big. So it’s AI models, AI agents coding, and federated learning.”

Timing the Market

Marten reflected on the familiar challenge of market timing. Eight years ago, Unibright had to educate enterprises about blockchain fundamentals — they were slightly ahead of adoption curves.

With AI, the dynamics feel similar but accelerated. Massive capital expenditure is flowing into infrastructure — NVIDIA GPUs, data centers, cooling systems — but regulatory accountability requirements haven’t yet fully landed on enterprises.

Marten: “When we end up having all these huge data centers and AI systems, sooner or later the realization will be that we need some infrastructure solution to comply to all these regulations. In that very moment, we want to be ready with our platform and offer a solution.”

Stefan added an economic angle: current AI usage feels cheap to enterprises only because major players are subsidizing it heavily — running 80–90% losses on prompts to win market share. When pricing normalizes, any solution that optimizes or automates compliance will become very attractive.

Stefan: “There will be huge cost explosions in the near and midterm. And this is where a platform like our Proof of Execution platform can play a vital role in saving costs.”

The New Website’s Message

The new site targets a specific audience: enterprise customers who need a solution, not crypto enthusiasts looking for speculation opportunities.

Marten: “The most important point is that we are not just building another blockchain or doing a token launch. We are building this infrastructure solution that supports so many use cases getting regulatory pressure, and we build an open ecosystem that has UBT in the middle.”

Stefan emphasized the credibility that comes from longevity:

Stefan: “It’s also about making clear that this isn’t a startup anymore. The ICO is eight years in the past. The token is well distributed. It’s been regulatory compliant from the very beginning, and we didn’t have one single time where we had to pivot because of the token structure itself.”

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Addressing Long-Term Holders

Zoe raised what many community members have been thinking: after eight years, business milestones with Tunesat and Audio Group haven’t yet translated into noticeable token value. How will that gap narrow?

Marten’s answer was direct: it’s logical because the platform isn’t live yet. No customers are buying credits or using the system. The narrative hasn’t been broadcast beyond the existing community.

Marten: “The platform hasn’t started yet. There are no customers buying credits or using the platform. And additionally, the whole narrative isn’t out yet. There is no outreach yet because we want to have some more pieces in place before we go that way.”

Pierre added that the team has no interest in manufacturing hype:

Pierre: “We have no real interest in trying to hype this thing and tell a story that is too fast or too big or too unrealistic. We are much more focused on building the platform and doing the real business so that tokens are getting burned, this whole thing starts to roll, and then build something that mid-term and long-term grows by itself based on real business success.”

Token Model: Burns, Staking, No Buybacks

When asked about concrete mechanisms to support token value — lockups, buybacks, structured usage — Marten was unambiguous about what won’t happen:

Marten: “Buybacks would be a very desperate thing to do. We’re not planning on any artificial short-term market interventions.”

Stefan explained why buybacks make no sense for a utility token:

Stefan: “If you think of a utility token as a voucher to use a service, it would be very desperate to buy our own vouchers — because that would be proof that there are no other users. Our best interest is that it’s widely distributed and there’s a big incentive for enterprise players to get tokens earlier than later.”

What the model does include: staking (which functions as lockup), proof fees, real token burns, and validator participation incentives.

Marten: “We have a very complete token model that allows the ecosystem to evolve. With the new platform, we have for the first time a very clear relationship between protocol activity and token utility — fees, portions that get burned, portions that go to validators.”

What’s Next

Media outreach will come at the right moment — when the infrastructure paper is published and there’s more to demonstrate. The team also indicated openness to involving the community in that effort.

Marten: “We will do some media outreach at the right moment in time when the paper is out and perhaps we have some more stuff to show for — perhaps even including the community, because it’s something that will help the ecosystem in general.”

Looking Ahead

This fifth AMA consolidated many threads from previous sessions into a clearer picture: a live website, an imminent Tunesat deployment, a well-defined token model, and a strategic focus on European enterprise customers facing regulatory pressure. The platform is moving from development to deployment, and the pieces are falling into place for broader market engagement.

Future sessions will go deeper into live client use cases and token design specifics as the infrastructure paper and deployment progress.

The next AMA is scheduled for June 2026. Questions for the next AMA can be submitted in advance via Email to ama@unibright.io or through our Telegram Communication channel (t.me/unibright_io), using Hashtag #AMA.

About Unibright: Unibright is a team of blockchain specialists, architects, developers and consultants with 20+ years of experience in business processes and integration. Unibright offers consulting with Unibright Solutions, Enterprise-grade Multi-Party-Synchronization with Unibright ONE, low-code-integration tools with the Unibright Framework, programmable DeFi with Unibright Freequity, and the Universal Business Token UBT. Unibright is actively engaged in blockchain initiatives and associations, offers Baseledger as a solution to orchestrate and trust-enhance B2B processes and offers ERP-Blockchain-integration together with a growing network of consulting and implementation partners.

About SPO: SPO, since its founding in 1989, is a strong player in the field of SAP and enterprise software consulting, development and integration, with a reputation for driving innovation and delivering comprehensive solutions to clients across a range of sectors. By integrating the latest technologies, SPO is committed to helping businesses thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
SPO has successfully implemented projects worldwide for companies of all sizes for more than 35 years.

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Joining moderator Zoe once again were Marten (Co-Founder & CEO), Stefan (Co-Founder & CTO), and Pierre (Co-CEO SPO, Unibright Business Director and CEO Audiogroup)

Production Reality: Five to Ten and Counting

The session opened with the most concrete question possible: how many enterprise clients are actually using Unibright One in live production environments — not pilots, but real deployments?

Marten’s answer was direct: approximately five to ten enterprise customers are currently running Unibright One in live production environments. In enterprise terms, that’s a meaningful number — not pilots or proofs of concept, but systems that are actively used in real business processes.

Marten: “Let’s keep in mind that we’re talking about enterprise usage. It’s always about months and months of talking with customers to get them to use stuff.”

Rather than optimizing for rapid customer count growth, the current focus is on learning from these production environments. The goal is to consolidate insights from real deployments into a unified “proof of execution” infrastructure.

Marten: “For the bigger picture, it’s more important to get a feeling about what our customers experience when using things like Unibright One or Baseledger, because we want to build this one product where we get all our learnings together into this proof of execution infrastructure.”

The team isn’t aggressively pushing Unibright One as a standalone product. Instead, they’re consolidating learnings from multiple product lines into a unified infrastructure platform. The current deployments serve as learning environments rather than growth metrics.

Pierre illustrated the approach from Audio Group’s perspective: they’re implementing several verticals that aren’t dead ends but multipliers — products that will roll out to specific client categories once proven internally.

Pierre: “Audio Group is the guinea pig, trying out to see what kind of product we can create that is helpful for us, but not only on internal structural things — actually to then deploy it to a number of clients.”

Blockchain as Infrastructure, Not Product

A significant shift in positioning emerged throughout the discussion. The team is no longer selling blockchain solutions; they’re selling enterprise software that happens to use blockchain where it adds value.

Marten: “Blockchain becoming more like an infrastructure component than an explicit product we want to sell. In recent years, Unibright as a company alone had blockchain products it wanted to sell. Now we are set up much differently with SPO and Audio Group, having access to ERP clients who want to talk about enterprise systems and processes they want to optimize. They don’t want to talk about blockchain first.”

Pierre provided a concrete example from the audio industry. His company needs software to manage music copyrights that’s legally safe and court-proof. The blockchain component enables that — but it’s not the pitch.

Pierre: “We’re not going to our clients and telling them, ‘Hey, now we have blockchain technology.’ They will be like, ‘Who cares?’ It’s more like, ‘Here’s a new system that helps you streamline your management and litigation processes. And we can give you direct access to absolutely tamper-proof data.’ This is kind of coincidentally locked in on the blockchain.”

Baseledger: Maintained and available

Questions about Baseledger’s limited validator count prompted a candid assessment of its role going forward.

Marten confirmed that Baseledger was always designed as a public-permissioned blockchain with a limited validator set — around 35 companies at maximum. It was never intended to match Ethereum’s level of decentralization. More importantly, the team has observed that Baseledger shines in private deployments.

Marten: “What we see is customers taking the code base and setting it up as a private blockchain between a company and their suppliers, so they end up with a trusted blockchain they can anchor things on. That’s what it’s being used for. Baseledger is something that is still there, and we keep it working. But I think it won’t evolve any further. With our new infrastructure, we’ll have a different type of anchoring proofs.”

Stefan added crucial context about UBT’s evolving role: the token’s utility is shifting from backend protocol usage within Baseledger to the platform layer itself. This means the new infrastructure can anchor proofs on any blockchain while UBT powers the proof of execution network above it.

Stefan: “We’re not so much dependent anymore that proofs are anchored especially on Baseledger. We can anchor them on any blockchain and still UBT is used to build the proof of execution network above it.”

UBT Liquidity: Perception vs. Reality

The team addressed community concerns about low on-chain volume and exchange liquidity head-on.

Marten acknowledged the perception while questioning whether it reflects an actual problem. He noted that neither he nor enterprise customers have experienced issues acquiring UBT through decentralized exchanges, even for large transactions.

Marten: “The truth is, enterprises normally don’t use exchanges. There are and will be intermediaries like credit pools that we offer or service providers that handle those things. Honestly, in the last eight years, we never had the problem.”

The discussion touched on exchange listings as both a liquidity and PR consideration. It’s on the roadmap but will happen when there’s a story worth telling — not as an end in itself.

Stefan offered a counterpoint to demands for centralized exchange listings: several centralized exchanges that previously listed UBT have since collapsed or been hacked, resulting in millions of permanently lost tokens.

Stefan: “If you are really digging into it, one could say we have more problems with centralized exchanges that people asked for and suddenly got wiped off the market or got hacked. It’s always two sides of things — asking for more decentralization while also asking for PR-related centralized exchanges.”

Audio Group: More Than One Lighthouse

Pierre expanded on Audio Group’s role, clarifying that it’s not a single lighthouse customer but an entire network of verticals, customer groups, and use cases — all related to digital assets.

The first vertical is approaching completion, though public announcements will follow enterprise relationship protocols rather than crypto marketing timelines.

Pierre: “The biggest problem on the enterprise side is that it’s not easy to go out and say we’re working with X and Y on this and this, because usually it’s something you cannot disclose easily. You need to build the level of trust first. And we’re not the flashy story guys.”

He emphasized the difference in perspective between traditional Unibright community expectations and enterprise realities: the blockchain and token aspects aren’t central to how clients perceive value. Happy clients using effective software will eventually become referenceable — but solving their problems comes first.

Pierre: “If on the SPO website there’s a new client being mentioned, it will be in terms of providing software services or solutions. We will not say this client has bought X million UBTs. The outside communication will be absolutely about the integrated software and platform systems where the blockchain plays a role, but it’s not the central part.”

Competitive Positioning: Years Ahead

As more projects position themselves in the “AI trust layer” space, Zoe asked what technological moat protects Unibright’s position.

Stefan framed it as feature-driven rather than defensive: the combination of classical software consulting expertise, a proven track record integrating new technologies, and deep domain knowledge in digital assets — particularly audio — creates a unique position.

Stefan: “There couldn’t be a better space where you bring together the existing client and user framework on the audio side, the consulting network on the SPO side, and put the blockchain layer somewhere in between to give back a little bit of trust and execution proofs in a world that is more and more related to AI development.”

Marten listed specific technical differentiators: privacy features, selective disclosure, workgroups, human validators, and court-proof design. These aren’t features competitors can quickly replicate — they represent years of enterprise feedback and iteration.

Marten: “It’s not just ‘let’s build this AI trust layer where we store some funny hashes.’ We are some years ahead here in our experience and knowledge.”

Pierre added a critical point about market access. New competitors may build great technology, but technology alone doesn’t create enterprise traction.

Pierre: “Even if you have great technology, it doesn’t mean anybody outside the blockchain crypto bubble knows about it. You may deliver incredible tech, but if nobody knows about it, you don’t make a single dime. We have 25 years of network and client relationships. This network of actual sales execution is an incredible advantage that no startup has.”

Proof of Execution: The Unifying Concept

The conversation turned to “proof of execution” — the conceptual framework underlying everything being built.

Marten defined it broadly: proving that something really happened, whether that’s an AI agent completing a task or a step in an enterprise workflow being executed.

Marten: “In general, proof of execution can mean more or less everything — an agent having done something, or some process step in an enterprise process being executed. Everything needs to be proved to some degree. That’s what we’ve been working on the last few years.”

The infrastructure goes beyond simply writing hashes to a blockchain. It incorporates workgroups for companies collaborating, selective disclosure for keeping certain data private, and external validators who can perform real-world verification.

Marten: “If you want to prove to a notary or regulatory authority, then you need certain validators in the loop that can do real-world checks on the data written to a blockchain. Did this really happen? Because otherwise you just promise but you don’t prove.”

Stefan connected this to the AI transformation reshaping enterprise operations. In Unibright’s early days, the focus was digitalization — bringing analog processes onto blockchain platforms. Now, with agentic AI, the challenge inverts: automated systems executing tasks need their actions verified by decentralized human validators.

Stefan: “Proof of execution nowadays would mean that completely automated processes get verified and validated by human beings distributed in different positions around that process. Autonomous systems won’t send signed PDFs or screenshots around the world via email — there needs to be a different platform.”

More details will emerge through upcoming AMAs and, eventually, a white paper.

Looking Ahead

This third AMA delivered what the community has been asking for: concrete numbers, honest assessments of current limitations, and substantive previews of what’s being built. The team continues to balance transparency about work in progress with appropriate caution about premature announcements.

As Zoe noted in closing:

“Open questions and tensions are exactly what this series is meant to surface. Future sessions will include deeper dives on proof of execution and the infrastructure taking shape — once the time is right.”

The next AMA is scheduled for April 2026. Questions for the next AMA can be submitted in advance via Email to ama@unibright.io or through our Telegram Communication channel (t.me/unibright_io), using Hashtag #AMA.

About Unibright: Unibright is a team of blockchain specialists, architects, developers and consultants with 20+ years of experience in business processes and integration. Unibright offers consulting with Unibright Solutions, Enterprise-grade Multi-Party-Synchronization with Unibright ONE, low-code-integration tools with the Unibright Framework, programmable DeFi with Unibright Freequity, and the Universal Business Token UBT. Unibright is actively engaged in blockchain initiatives and associations, offers Baseledger as a solution to orchestrate and trust-enhance B2B processes and offers ERP-Blockchain-integration together with a growing network of consulting and implementation partners.

About SPO: SPO, since its founding in 1989, is a strong player in the field of SAP and enterprise software consulting, development and integration, with a reputation for driving innovation and delivering comprehensive solutions to clients across a range of sectors. By integrating the latest technologies, SPO is committed to helping businesses thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
SPO has successfully implemented projects worldwide for companies of all sizes for more than 35 years.

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Joining moderator Zoe once again were Marten (Co-Founder & CEO), Stefan (Co-Founder & CTO), and Pierre (Co-CEO SPO, Unibright Business Director and CEO Audiogroup)

Crypto Winter as Opportunity

The session opened with a candid discussion of market conditions. With many still referring to the current climate as a “crypto winter,” Zoe asked whether this creates challenges or, paradoxically, strengthens Unibright’s position.

Marten’s response was philosophical but grounded in experience. Having navigated multiple cycles since the 2018 ICO, the team sees downturns not as obstacles but as necessary corrections — periods when speculative capital exits and unsustainable projects disappear.

Marten: “I tend to see these things like some cleansing forest fire. These winters are very helpful and very much needed because you see all this speculative capital leaving the market and unsustainable or even fraudulent token models disappearing.”

For Stefan, the quieter periods have a practical upside: development accelerates when the noise subsides.

Stefan: “I had the feeling that always in those winter times, the development side on Unibright was the strongest because the whole space is not so loud and you can actually focus on bringing the platform forward.”

Pierre added a commercial perspective. Enterprise adoption, he noted, often happens not during hype cycles but when the market settles and blockchain technology can be evaluated on its merits rather than its speculation potential.

The Regulatory Tailwind

A significant portion of the conversation focused on how the regulatory environment — particularly in Europe — is reshaping the landscape in Unibright’s favor.

The EU’s AI Act, the upcoming Digital Product Passport requirements, and broader ESG mandates are creating genuine pressure on enterprises to prove provenance, document processes, and demonstrate compliance. This is precisely the territory where Unibright’s infrastructure plays a role.

Marten: “There’s really pressure on the companies to do something, which is really great for us now offering infrastructure solutions for proving business processes. It’s much better now than a few years ago because there is regulatory pressure.”

Stefan observed that the gap between innovation and adoption is finally closing. In Unibright’s early days, blockchain was so far ahead of mainstream understanding that every conversation required extensive explanation. That’s changing.

Stefan: “In the beginning of Unibright, we were just way far ahead from what’s not only adopted, but what’s even known or accepted as common truth of technology. Now we get closer and closer to the actual demands of the market.”

Pierre reinforced this shift from the sales perspective. The perception of blockchain has fundamentally changed — it’s no longer automatically associated with speculation.

Pierre: “Blockchain as a technology is established. People know that it has real use cases. It has been separated from the whole crypto thing, which can be difficult for big corporations. You don’t need to explain to people anymore why we’re using blockchain and what it exactly does.”

The Core Mission: Proof of Execution

When asked to articulate the fundamental problem Unibright aims to solve, Marten distilled it to a single concept: building a trust layer.

Marten: “Our core is building an infrastructure layer that is able to handle proofs and synchronize data between enterprises and show that data can be trusted. It’s all about the trust layer.”

This trust layer becomes increasingly critical as AI transforms enterprise operations. When models are trained, when inference is performed, when agents execute tasks autonomously — proving what happened, what data was used, and by whom becomes essential. The team sees this as a natural extension of their existing work.

Stefan emphasized that Unibright’s B2B focus positions it well for this shift. The question isn’t just about AI chatbots for consumers — it’s about enterprises restructuring around AI agents that will handle tasks previously performed by humans.

Stefan: “It’s really about a new structure of enterprises, training agents to do work that perhaps the human department did alone before. All this needs a backbone on platform level, on software level. And it also needs a backbone on regulatory level so that you actually as a human being still know what all this technology is executing for you.”

What’s Coming: Beyond Unibright One

Community members naturally wanted to know what to expect in the coming months. The answer was deliberately broad but pointed toward integration and expansion.

Rather than treating Baseledger and Unibright One as separate products, the team is bringing their accumulated technology together into a broader infrastructure solution — one designed to address AI-era use cases alongside traditional enterprise needs.

Marten: “We are bringing them together in a new solution, in a broader infrastructure solution that can cope with the AI use cases as well. We will start showcasing and talking about this this year moving forward.”

Pierre grounded this in practical terms. The new direction isn’t about abstract technology that enterprises must figure out how to use — it’s about real software solving real problems, with the blockchain layer providing proof of execution underneath.

Pierre: “It’s not about a more abstract technology that people can adapt to. It’s an enterprise software solution that has real use cases. Only having the proof of execution layer does not really solve any problem on the enterprise side. They need also the ecosystem around it.”

Stefan resisted the temptation to commit to specific roadmap dates, noting that the team prefers to be a few steps ahead before making announcements. The monthly AMA format itself serves as a mechanism for regular updates without the pressure of premature commitments.

UBT: Returning to First Principles

A substantial portion of the AMA addressed how UBT fits into the current and future infrastructure — and how this aligns with the original ICO vision.

The answer was unambiguous: UBT remains central, and the current direction actually moves closer to the original token utility concept announced during the ICO — a credit-based system where UBT provides access to infrastructure services.

Marten: “It was always the idea that UBT is the utility. It’s a token that can be used to use the infrastructure that we build. And that is exactly what we are doing moving forward.”

Stefan acknowledged that there was a period when blockchain’s reputational challenges led to fiat-only payment options for Unibright One. That phase is ending. The new platforms being built have UBT at their core.

Stefan: “For the things upcoming, we can clearly state that it’s not possible to use the systems without the usage of UBT. We will still build bridges for enterprises to make it easy for them to get their UBT.”

The team struck a pragmatic balance: enterprises that prefer fiat payments can still participate, but they’ll pay a premium. Those who engage directly with UBT benefit from more favorable terms. This creates natural incentives without erecting barriers.

Pierre: “You should never scare away a customer. It should always be in favor of UBT first, but from a customer perspective, it should be as easy as possible.”

Beyond simple payment mechanics, Marten emphasized the broader purpose of the token: enabling an incentivized ecosystem where validators, developers, and other participants are motivated to contribute.

Marten: “The power a token can give to an ecosystem is really huge. It gives us much more power than just being a centralized, medium-sized company.”

Decentralization in an Increasingly Centralized World

An intriguing question emerged about the apparent tension between decentralized technology and a world moving toward more centralized systems — mandatory state invoicing, consolidated AI providers, and similar trends.

Marten’s response centered on trust. Centralized systems inherently require trusting the entity that controls them. Decentralized systems can prove their integrity.

Marten: “You always have a problem with a centralized system that it’s not really tamper-proof. Blockchain has proved that decentralized technology can achieve things that even centralized technology cannot.”

Pierre put it more directly:

Pierre: “It’s all 100% only about trust, and the only way to build that trust is decentralized. There’s no way to build real trust with a centralized system.”

Stefan offered a thought-provoking twist: the rise of AI agents makes decentralization more relevant, not less. As automated systems increasingly execute tasks on behalf of enterprises, the need for a trust layer between human intentions and machine actions becomes critical.

Stefan: “Humans are decentralized per definition. So why not build the platform in a way that supports them the best?”

Strategic Alignment: Does SPO Benefit from Token Appreciation?

Zoe posed a direct question that’s often on community members’ minds: does SPO as an organization strategically benefit if the UBT token price increases?

The answer was yes — but the reasoning went beyond simple asset appreciation. A rising token price reflects a growing, more active ecosystem. More participants, more incentives to build, more adoption.

Marten: “If we see companies using it more and we see the token price rising, then we see a stronger ecosystem. We see more people coming into it, being more incentivized to build within it.”

Stefan added the customer perspective: in a credit-based system, early adopters who acquire UBT benefit as the ecosystem grows. This creates alignment between token holders and platform users.

Stefan: “It’s always a good thing if you own these credits already before they get more expensive. There should be a benefit for those customers that decide early enough to build credits for their future transactions.”

When asked what safeguards ensure UBT remains structurally central rather than drifting into something optional, Marten’s answer was straightforward: the team’s commitment. UBT is a “veteran token” in the industry — well-distributed, time-tested, and impossible to manipulate at the contract level. The people building the infrastructure are the same people who designed the token model, and they remain committed to its central role.

Stefan acknowledged that even in decentralized systems, some centralization exists in decision-making. The long-term goal includes bringing more decentralization to governance itself — a direction discussed during the Baseledger era. But for now, the team’s daily commitment to keeping UBT central is the primary safeguard.

Stefan: “In the bigger picture, it would also be a long-term goal to bring more decentralization in the token system itself… But we are working towards that for sure, because it’s part of the decentralization idea.”

Looking Ahead

This second AMA demonstrated the team’s commitment to regular, substantive communication after a quieter period focused on building. The conversation moved from context-setting to strategy, with clear signals about direction: a unified infrastructure platform, AI-ready use cases, UBT at the center, and a pragmatic approach to enterprise adoption.

As Zoe noted in closing:

“The goal of these sessions is exploration rather than finality. If participants leave with a clearer sense of context and a few new questions, that’s by design.”

The next AMA continues this trajectory — expect deeper dives into specific technical approaches and use cases as the team moves from building to showcasing. The next AMA is scheduled for March 2026. Questions for the next AMA can be submitted in advance via Email to ama@unibright.io or through our Telegram Communication channel (t.me/unibright_io), using Hashtag #AMA.

About Unibright: Unibright is a team of blockchain specialists, architects, developers and consultants with 20+ years of experience in business processes and integration. Unibright offers consulting with Unibright Solutions, Enterprise-grade Multi-Party-Synchronization with Unibright ONE, low-code-integration tools with the Unibright Framework, programmable DeFi with Unibright Freequity, and the Universal Business Token UBT. Unibright is actively engaged in blockchain initiatives and associations, offers Baseledger as a solution to orchestrate and trust-enhance B2B processes and offers ERP-Blockchain-integration together with a growing network of consulting and implementation partners.

About SPO: SPO, since its founding in 1989, is a strong player in the field of SAP and enterprise software consulting, development and integration, with a reputation for driving innovation and delivering comprehensive solutions to clients across a range of sectors. By integrating the latest technologies, SPO is committed to helping businesses thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
SPO has successfully implemented projects worldwide for companies of all sizes for more than 35 years.

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Joining moderator Zoe were Marten (Co-Founder & CEO of Unibright), Stefan (Co-Founder & CTO), and Pierre, who founded and leads Audiogroup — a global media company now closely integrated with SPO Consulting and Unibright. Pierre joined Unibright’s new home company SPO Consulting GmbH as a significant shareholder and now holds the role as Co-CEO. Together, they unpacked the strategic reasoning behind recent developments and painted a picture of where things are headed.

You can watch the full AMA on Youtube.

A New Constellation: Why Audiogroup and Unibright?

The session opened with introductions that quickly revealed the common thread binding these seemingly different industries together. Pierre’s Audiogroup has spent over two decades building tools, recording original content, and managing digital rights for the gaming, film, and automotive industries. With roughly 100 professionals and a business model that shifted from services to products and technology, they embody exactly the kind of real-world operation that can benefit from blockchain infrastructure.

The connection to Unibright wasn’t born from hype — it emerged from necessity. As Pierre explained, his company manages over a thousand suppliers and faces daily challenges around content provenance, rights verification, and fraudulent uploads.

Pierre: “The connection between the somewhat virtual world of blockchain and the real world — connecting this is the biggest challenge. We saw solutions with what SPO Consulting has, solutions that we needed. Joining forces was kind of a natural move.”

For Unibright, this partnership represents the culmination of years spent building enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure. Since 2018, the team has shipped real products, supported enterprise customers in production environments, and proven that blockchain can operate reliably at scale. Now embedded within SPO Consulting — a company with a track record of delivering mission-critical ERP systems since 1989 — Unibright brings both technical innovation and enterprise-level delivery discipline to the table.

Marten: “It’s really great to have Pierre and the Audiogroup closely connected to Unibright now. Seeing the whole story of them evolving to a global B2B licensing powerhouse is just great.”

The Role of UBT: Utility, Not Speculation

One of the most discussed topics in the community has been the role of the UBT token in this new setup. The team was unequivocal: UBT was designed as a utility token from day one, and that purpose remains unchanged.

What makes UBT particularly valuable, Stefan noted, is that it’s already well-established and decentralized — not just technologically, but in terms of distribution. Thousands of holders worldwide means the ecosystem isn’t controlled by any single entity.

Stefan: “The idea of UBT was, is, and always will be to have the utility to use our services and to make that technology step into some new technology layer like blockchain easier and seamless.”

Marten elaborated on the broader vision: rather than building a centralized software product owned by one company, the goal is to create an ecosystem where multiple players — validators, developers, content creators — can contribute and be properly incentivized.

Marten: “The real magic in using a utility token is to build something much, much bigger where you can integrate more players in one ecosystem… they can all work together and be incentivized the right way.”

The team also addressed a nuanced point that had surfaced in community discussions: why UBT “can be used but doesn’t have to be used.” This flexibility is intentional. Enterprise customers often hesitate when confronted with token requirements upfront. By allowing fiat payments that translate to UBT usage behind the scenes, Unibright can lower barriers to adoption while ensuring the token economy remains central to the infrastructure.

Baseline Protocol: A Foundation, Not a Failure

The conversation turned to the Baseline Protocol — a collaborative effort that once brought together Unibright with giants like EY, Microsoft, and ConsenSys. Stefan, who served on the Technical Steering Committee for two years, offered a candid retrospective.

When Unibright reduced its involvement, the initiative slowed considerably — a testament to the team’s impact, but also a sobering lesson about the dynamics of open standards bodies.

Stefan: “As soon as Unibright got away a little bit from the baseline protocol on the official side, the whole movement around baseline went slower and slower. We didn’t expect our impact being so big.”

Rather than viewing Baseline as unfinished business, the team frames it as a successful foundation. The concepts, ideas, and technical work developed during that period now live on in Baseledger and Unibright One. The technology is blockchain-agnostic and fully under Unibright’s control.

Marten: “I like to see the Baseline thing as something that came to a great ending. For Unibright, it resulted in us building Baseledger and Unibright One afterward. Perhaps Baseline was done when it was done.”

One lesson stood out: excluding token discussions from Baseline may have been a strategic mistake. Without a proper incentive mechanism, distributed networks struggle to demonstrate their value over centralized alternatives.

Real Problems, Real Solutions: Digital Asset Management in Practice

Perhaps the most compelling part of the AMA was Pierre’s description of the concrete problems his company faces — problems that Unibright’s technology is now positioned to solve.

The Audiogroup distributes content from over a thousand suppliers worldwide. A persistent challenge is content that gets uploaded by people who don’t actually own the rights — sometimes accidentally, sometimes fraudulently. This isn’t unique to Pierre’s company; platforms like YouTube and Spotify grapple with the same issues at massive scale.

Pierre: “If you connect these digital asset deliveries to a validation system that is transparent, all of a sudden you can get a very fast and good way to find out which things are correct and which not. Somebody who uploads stuff that is stolen will very quickly get bad ratings and therefore not be able to use the system anymore.”

The plan is for Audiogroup to serve as the first real-world implementation — not a proof of concept, but an actual production deployment. Once proven internally, the solution can be presented to other media companies, music publishers, and labels.

Pierre: “We’re not a billion-dollar company… but we do have a real business, and the scalability of our services is relying on what SPO Consulting is now building for us and with us.”

Not Blockchain for Blockchain’s Sake

A recurring theme throughout the AMA was the team’s deliberate positioning: they’re building solutions that happen to use blockchain, not blockchain solutions searching for problems.

This matters for enterprise adoption. As Pierre noted, approaching large companies with a “crypto blockchain solution” still carries an image problem. The smarter approach is to present something immediately understandable and helpful, with the blockchain infrastructure operating under the hood.

Pierre: “We’re not building this whole thing for the sake of using blockchain. It’s just a great helper, but the real value is in the whole tech stack and not only in the crypto blockchain setup.”

Stefan reinforced this philosophy. While Unibright is proud of its track record — eight years in an industry where competitors often disappear after two — the focus has shifted from evangelizing technology to delivering tangible value.

Stefan: “If I could choose, I would always pick real traction and usage of the platforms over an evangelist disconnected from the rest of his company saying nice things.”

Looking Ahead: AI, Regulation, and the Road Forward

The conversation touched on emerging opportunities at the intersection of blockchain, AI, and regulation. The European AI Act, ESG requirements, and growing concerns about AI training data provenance all create demand for the kind of verifiable, tamper-proof documentation that blockchain infrastructure can provide.

Marten: “How can you come up with an idea of how to pay royalties or get a better feeling of what these systems are doing? This is something that’s on our mind as well.”

The team acknowledged that communication had been sparse over the past year — a deliberate choice while foundational work was being completed. That changes now. This AMA series represents a commitment to regular, substantive updates. Follow-up questions from the community are encouraged, and deeper dives into specific products and technologies will come in future sessions.

Stefan: “All the groundwork done just resulted in something that’s way bigger. We needed a little bit of time for that… which changes now. The future looks very Unibright.”

What’s Next?

This first AMA was intentionally about context rather than conclusions — establishing who’s involved, why they’re working together, and what motivates this collaboration across different industries. Future sessions will funnel down into specifics: the platforms being built, the technology being deployed, and the results being achieved.

The team will continue publishing educational blog posts alongside the video format. Questions that weren’t addressed in this session will carry forward, and new questions are welcome. The next AMA is scheduled for February 2026. Questions for the next AMA can be submitted in advance via Email to ama@unibright.io or through our Telegram Communication channel (t.me/unibright_io), using Hashtag #AMA.

As Zoe noted in closing:

“If you’re leaving today with even more questions, then that’s very much by design.”

About Unibright: Unibright is a team of blockchain specialists, architects, developers and consultants with 20+ years of experience in business processes and integration. Unibright offers consulting with Unibright Solutions, Enterprise-grade Multi-Party-Synchronization with Unibright ONE, low-code-integration tools with the Unibright Framework, programmable DeFi with Unibright Freequity, and the Universal Business Token UBT. Unibright is actively engaged in blockchain initiatives and associations, offers Baseledger as a solution to orchestrate and trust-enhance B2B processes and offers ERP-Blockchain-integration together with a growing network of consulting and implementation partners.

About SPO: SPO, since its founding in 1989, is a strong player in the field of SAP and enterprise software consulting, development and integration, with a reputation for driving innovation and delivering comprehensive solutions to clients across a range of sectors. By integrating the latest technologies, SPO is committed to helping businesses thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
SPO has successfully implemented projects worldwide for companies of all sizes for more than 35 years.

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What has become increasingly clear is that the questions coming from our community have grown more fundamental — and deserve a better format than only blog posts. It is not just about products or timelines, but about direction, priorities, and vision.

Starting in January, we will host a recurring AMA (Ask Me Anything) video format. Before explaining how it will work, we want to briefly explain why we are doing this now, and what kind of conversation we are aiming for.

Reconnecting People, Not Announcements

In recent months, our focus has been strongly execution-driven. Less outward communication, more time spent building, integrating, and working with partners across different domains.

One important development during this time was the closer collaboration between SPO and audiogroup.com — particularly in areas where AI, digital content, licensing, and execution-critical workflows intersect. This collaboration led to Pierre Langer joining SPO as managing director.

Pierre brings a perspective that perfectly complements Unibright and SPO: hands-on experience with media, licensing, and asset-centric workflows where provenance, execution, timing, and contractual conditions are core business requirements — not just theory — but growing successful companies and real money business. Over the past 25 years, he built Audiogroup from scratch into a leading global B2B audio services and product studio, supporting tens of thousands of customers across big tech, entertainment, gaming, film, and automotive, with a team of more than 100 professionals worldwide.

Pierre states:

“We are producing original content, sources, and software, and we are also representing thousands of creatives and rights holders worldwide. So, licensing, chains of rights, provenance of content and digital rights administration have always played a major role in everything we do at Audiogroup. Through our network of clients, which is basically all large entertainment and media companies in the world, we also know that legally safe, transparent and tamper proof distribution, usage and attribution of digital assets remain a major challenge. The idea to combine our network and experience with the expertise and technical frameworks of Unibright and SPO is pretty much a no-brainer: Being our own first customer is simply the most honest way to build a new business, and on that way, the fun part will be to build something new and unique to solve a crucial real life problem in the digital world.”

Alongside music and AI, these discussions naturally extend into asset management and licensing — domains where trust is rarely binary and almost never static.

We mention this not as an announcement, but as context. Because the conversations we are about to open did not start from a single idea or product, but emerged from years of hands-on work, across different industries, with recurring structural questions that existing systems struggle to answer.

Why an AMA — and Why Now

Over the last months, we have also heard a very clear signal from the UBT community: a desire for more direct, more continuous, and more contextual communication. Honoring the communication credo of the last seven years of Unibright since the founding of Unibright, we will clearly focus on dialogue, technical education, and strategic explanation rather than on hype or announcements.

At the same time, we noticed that many discussions tend to jump straight to solutions — often before there is shared clarity on the problem itself. That is something we want to approach differently.

The upcoming AMA series is meant to be a space to talk before things are named, finalized, or packaged. A place to discuss motivations, observations, and constraints openly — including uncertainty and open questions. This also gives us the chance to test our ideas and our communication with a well-educated audience, and to receive valuable feedback along the way. This is not a marketing format. It is a working conversation — shaped by real constraints and ongoing work.

The AMA is not a one-off event, but a structured, recurring format designed to build continuity and shared understanding over time.

How the AMA Series Will Work

• The AMAs will take place monthly, starting in January.
• They will be held as moderated video sessions.
• Questions will be collected in advance and clustered by topic.
• Our new communication team lead, Zoe, will moderate the sessions, ensuring focus and structure.
• Pierre will participate in every AMA.
• Marten and Stefan will join alternately, sometimes individually, sometimes together, depending on the topic.
• Where possible and feasible, we will also invite guests related to the respective AMA core topic.

As our goal is clarity, not noise, this is intentionally not a live free-for-all format. Each AMA will have a clear thematic focus, and unanswered questions will be carried forward into future sessions where appropriate. We commit to showing up regularly — including when answers are complex or still evolving.

AMA #1 — Who We Are, and Why We’re Working Together

The first AMA will deliberately avoid product announcements or technical deep dives. Instead, we want to start with a simple but important question:

Who are we — and what problems brought us together?

We will talk about:

• backgrounds and perspectives
• why areas like AI, digital content, licensing, and execution-critical systems raise similar structural questions
• which assumptions we no longer find convincing
• and which challenges keep resurfacing across different industries

In short: the why before the what.

How to Participate

Questions for the first AMA can be submitted in advance via:

• Email to ama@unibright.io
• Our Telegram Communication channel (t.me/unibright_io), please use Hashtag #AMA, so we can easily find and sort out questions

Please send your questions until January 16, 2026

We encourage thoughtful questions — especially those you would ask if no product was being pitched.“When UBT $4?” questions will be answered with “Any time soon in the next 2⁰ to 2⁵ years” right away ;-)

Not every question will be answered immediately. But every theme will be acknowledged and considered as part of the ongoing conversation.

About Unibright: Unibright is a team of blockchain specialists, architects, developers and consultants with 20+ years of experience in business processes and integration. Unibright offers consulting with Unibright Solutions, Enterprise-grade Multi-Party-Synchronization with Unibright ONE, low-code-integration tools with the Unibright Framework, programmable DeFi with Unibright Freequity, and the Universal Business Token UBT. Unibright is actively engaged in blockchain initiatives and associations, offers Baseledger as a solution to orchestrate and trust-enhance B2B processes and offers ERP-Blockchain-integration together with a growing network of consulting and implementation partners.

About SPO: SPO, since its founding in 1989, is a strong player in the field of SAP and enterprise software consulting, development and integration, with a reputation for driving innovation and delivering comprehensive solutions to clients across a range of sectors. By integrating the latest technologies, SPO is committed to helping businesses thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
SPO has successfully implemented projects worldwide for companies of all sizes for more than 35 years.

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Unibright, a leading innovator in blockchain technology, is excited to announce its official integration into its parent company SPO Consulting GmbH, marking a major milestone in its growth journey. This step combines the strengths of both companies to enhance marketing capabilities, to broaden customer reach, and to open new revenue streams in enterprise blockchain solutions, positioning Unibright as a part of SPO for continued leadership in the blockchain space.

Problem

At the current state of adoption, we are convinced that blockchain alone is not an easy sell in the enterprise environment:

• Blockchain has only a minor share of technology stacks used in enterprise applications
• Many companies are reluctant to launch projects under the label “blockchain”, as the broader crypto scene raises concerns and fears
• In general, blockchain projects are still seen as innovation projects. However, blockchain is not the only innovation in the technical field; companies are currently at least as interested in other topics, such as artificial intelligence.

Despite these obstacles, there are many interesting projects in which blockchain can be a significant part of the solution, but which do not necessarily have to be implemented using blockchain technology in 100% of the solution: In most cases, a lot of preparatory work in the direction of digitization and/or integration has to be done before blockchain can even become relevant as a technology.

Solution

Unibright was initially founded within SPO and spun off in 2017 to become a major player in the enterprise blockchain application space.

The integration back into a consulting company will empower Unibright (as a brand of SPO), to leverage SPO’s extensive resources, including its industry expertise and established global customer relationships, significantly accelerating its market growth. In addition, the functionality of its utility token UBT will be not only be kept, but expanded to use cases within this enterprise environment.

This integration of the blockchain-branded services of Unibright into a broader enterprise consulting setting creates several advantages:

1. Expanded Customer Base and Marketing Possibilities
   With access to SPO’s diverse customer base, Unibright can now target a wider range of industries, further increasing adoption of its blockchain solutions. By tapping into SPO’s established networks, there will be enhanced opportunities to bring advanced technologies to sectors such as finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and more. This will significantly amplify its brand visibility across global markets, allowing the blockchain company to scale faster while introducing its innovative solutions to new audiences.
2. Enhanced Utility Token Functionality
   As the utility token UBT will retain its current utility, it is able to continuing playing a vital role in the decentralized ecosystem. Moving forward, the utility and value of the token will be further strengthened as new use cases (where blockchain is possibly only one part of a bigger solution) can be developed in within SPO. This ensures that all token holders will benefit from this integration, with expanded utility on the horizon. SPO aims to maintain UBT in all its existing Unibright products and offerings (like Unibright One and Baseledger), and on top include UBT in consulting-only projects (comparable to the former Unibright Solutions offerings).
3. BASELEDGER Blockchain Solution as a White-Label Offering
   One of the most exciting outcomes of this integration is the opportunity to offer the BASELEDGER blockchain as a white-label solution to enterprises. BASELEDGER, the council-governed blockchain developed by Unibright, will now be available for businesses looking to set up private, secure blockchains tailored for their specific enterprise processes. This opens up significant new revenue streams, as companies can leverage BASELEDGER for use in supply chain management, financial services, and other mission-critical operations.
   UBT, the universal business token, can also be used inside these white labeled implementations, ensuring the provider of the new network can rely on an established, well distributed and regulatory compliant utility token.

This offering empowers SPO with the unique ability to offer consulting and development services for businesses implementing these private blockchain solutions. By selling expertise in blockchain architecture, process optimization, and decentralized technology development, the combined company will be able to provide comprehensive solutions, from setup to execution.

A Future of Innovation and Growth

Marten Jung, CEO and Co-Founder of Unibright:

“As we move forward together, this integration positions us to scale faster and innovate further. By combining our blockchain expertise with SPO’s global reach and market power, we are opening up tremendous new opportunities for growth. Our utility token, UBT, remains central to our decentralized vision, while our blockchain solutions around Unibright ONE and Baseledger are set to enable enterprise adoption of private blockchains. We are thrilled to offer our clients a full suite of services, from blockchain consulting to custom private solutions.”

About Unibright: Unibright is a team of blockchain specialists, architects, developers and consultants with 20+ years of experience in business processes and integration. Unibright offers consulting with Unibright Solutions, Enterprise-grade Multi-Party-Synchronization with Unibright ONE, low-code-integration tools with the Unibright Framework, programmable DeFi with Unibright Freequity, and the Universal Business Token UBT. Unibright is actively engaged in blockchain initiatives and associations, offers Baseledger as a solution to orchestrate and trust-enhance B2B processes and offers ERP-Blockchain-integration together with a growing network of consulting and implementation partners.

About SPO: SPO, since its founding in 1989, is a strong player in the field of SAP and enterprise software consulting, development and integration, with a reputation for driving innovation and delivering comprehensive solutions to clients across a range of sectors. By integrating the latest technologies, SPO is committed to helping businesses thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
SPO has successfully implemented projects worldwide for companies of all sizes for 35 years.

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We are pleased to see a huge demand for Unibright ONE, with most of the customers using our fiat gateway for payment purposes. We are a bit surprised to see the majority of users using fiat money and well-known (but rather expensive and ill-suited) blockchains as notarization targets. We expected to see more usage of Baseledger, especially for enterprise usage. Although it is the “cheapest” to use and the one best-suited in our experience, it seems that enterprise at the moment prefer known blockchains like Ethereum or even Bitcoin for notarizing. Unibright ONE was built exactly that way (to be blockchain agnostic and support various notarization targets), but of course we aim to work on making the advantages of Baseledger clearer towards the enterprise audience in 2024.

According to Forbes, the blockchain industry itself continues to build and innovate, and on-chain activity shows that there’s been no reduction in developer activity. In fact, a recent Forbes article highlights that the blockchain industry is expected to grow at a CAGR of 67.3% from 2021 to 2028. This growth is driven by the adoption of blockchain technology in various industries, including supply chain, digital identity, and financial services.

2023 recap

1 In Q1 2023, we launched Unibright ONE, with zero down-time and an ever growing customer base since then. Our service-oriented platform for Enterprise-Grade Multichain- and Multiparty synchronization under Zero Knowledge followed our former developments of the Unibright Framework and Freequity. Unibright ONE is another proof of our commitment to simplicity and scalability: Building on top of Baseledger, our blockchain infrastructure, Unibright ONE has empowered enterprises to seamlessly integrate blockchain technology into their operations. Its versatility and user-friendly design have laid the groundwork for a new era of efficiency and transparency.

2 In Q2 2023, we worked on robust liquidity for UBT, as a desired feature for widespread enterprise usage of all UBT-powered offerings. Decentralizing UBT, launching pools and initiating further talks with exchanges (without paying unreasonable amounts of money) is all part of that strategy, which will greatly pay out in the future.

3 In Q3 2023, we gathered first customer reactions after some months of productive work inside Unibright ONE. In our pursuit of continuous improvement, we thoughtfully grouped and prioritized additional technical, business-related and content-related features, and built a development plan for a version 2 with added features.

4 In Q4 2023, we focused mainly on development on both technical level (buidling the next Version of Unibright ONE) and business level, where our main focus is and was to embed Unibright’s offering into a consulting focused setup, that covers all parts of new tech and integration, even those where Blockchain would serve as an improvement and not as the initial request. We will go into details in the following outlook.

2024 outlook

Unibright is here and will remain!
Nearly 6 years after our launch, we are very proud that we are still here, with all co-founders still on board. We are proven to be productive and profitable, all our actions and products have shown to be fully legally compliant and 100% scam free. Our setup of an agile team that can be scaled according to the requirements keeps us well funded for the years to come.

Embracing the Future with UBT
As we navigate the dynamic landscape of blockchain and decentralized technologies, UBT, the native token of Unibright, should always emerge as a beacon of optimism and innovation. Positioned at the heart of Unibright’s ecosystem, UBT represents not just a digital asset but a key to unlocking a world of possibilities. We will keep on making sure that every innovative product and service offered by Unibright, aims to incorporate UBT in it. We will keep on working hard on making UBT and its tokenomics more attractive every year, and are looking into finding more fitting partners in the field of exchanges and liquidity providers.

Unibright has already made strides in simplifying blockchain integration for enterprises with its products and services. To further revolutionize the blockchain space, Unibright will work on the following strategies for 2024:

Enhance User-Friendliness: Continue improving the user interfaces to our products, to make them even more intuitive and user-friendly. Implement educational resources, tutorials, and documentation to guide users through the process of blockchain integration.

Expand Integration Capabilities: Extend compatibility with additional blockchain platforms to offer a broader range of choices for users. Explore partnerships and collaborations to integrate with emerging and popular blockchain networks, ensuring Unibright remains versatile and adaptable.

Integrate Advanced Technologies: Explore the integration of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to automate and optimize smart contract creation and management. Consider interoperability with other decentralized technologies, such as decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, to expand the utility of the Unibright ecosystem.

Focus on Industry-Specific Solutions: Develop industry-specific templates and solutions to address the unique needs of various sectors, such as healthcare, finance, supply chain, and more. Collaborate with industry leaders to tailor Unibright’s offerings to specific use cases, enhancing its relevance and impact across different domains.

Scalability and Performance: Invest in research and development to enhance the scalability and performance of the Unibright framework, addressing potential bottlenecks as the user base grows. Explore layer 2 solutions or other scaling technologies to ensure smooth and efficient operation, especially during periods of high network activity.

Continuous Innovation: Foster a culture of innovation within the Unibright team, encouraging the exploration of emerging technologies and novel approaches to blockchain challenges. Regularly release updates and new features to keep the Unibright ecosystem dynamic and aligned with the evolving needs of the blockchain space.

By combining these strategies, Unibright hopes to further revolutionize the blockchain space, making decentralized technology more accessible, adaptable, and impactful for enterprises across diverse industries.

A Grateful Note to Our Community and Partners

To our community, partners, and every individual who has been part of the Unibright journey — thank you! Your support, enthusiasm, and shared vision for a decentralized future have been our driving force. As we step into 2024, we carry the collective energy of a community dedicated to transforming the way businesses operate with blockchain.

The journey ahead for Unibright is filled with promise, and as our products gain traction, it’s poised to be a cornerstone in the ongoing narrative of blockchain’s evolution, bringing about a positive transformation in the way businesses operate and innovate — powered by UBT.

Here’s to a year filled with continued innovation, collaboration, and the realization of a decentralized tomorrow. Wishing you a joyful and prosperous New Year from the Unibright team!

Empowering Enterprises, Embracing Blockchain.

About Unibright: Unibright is a team of blockchain specialists, architects, developers and consultants with 20+ years of experience in business processes and integration. Unibright offers consulting with Unibright Solutions, Enterprise-grade Multi-Party-Synchronization with Unibright ONE, low-code-integration tools with the Unibright Framework, programmable DeFi with Unibright Freequity, and the Universal Business Token UBT. Unibright is actively engaged in blockchain initiatives and associations, offers Baseledger as a solution to orchestrate and trust-enhance B2B processes and offers ERP-Blockchain-integration together with a growing network of consulting and implementation partners.

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