SECURELY STORING DIGITAL CONTENT USING A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER

Software for securely storing digital content using a distributed ledger. The software performs the following operations: (i) receiving identification information of an owner of a digital asset, metadata of the digital asset, a digital hash of the digital asset, and the digital asset; (ii) verifying authenticity of the owner based, at least in part, the received identification information; (iii) in response to verifying the authenticity of the owner, creating a watermarked version of the digital asset based on the identification information of the owner, the metadata of the digital asset, and the digital hash; and (iv) storing the digital asset and the watermarked version of the digital asset in a first distributed ledger.