Founded under the mission that music is a highly valued art, Ourkive is a platform that empowers artists to publish, exhibit, and sell their music pieces. A music piece is a digital artwork centered around an artist’s musical expression. Until today, a music file could be neither appreciated nor valued as an artwork, and it has been either streamed as a near-zero commodity or consumed illegally. One core problem was that a digital file could not be authenticated on the Internet.