Introducing Itheum Gateway Services: Bridging Web2 and Web3 Data Monetization

2 min readJul 22, 2025

Your data deserves to work for you. With Itheum Gateway Services, monetizing it just got simple.

In today’s AI-driven world, organizations are waking up to a hard truth: their data is being used, but its value isn’t being captured by the true owners.

Every business holds a treasure trove of data — customer insights, AI models, documents, media libraries, and more. But for most Web2 companies, the question remains: “How do we securely monetize our data without drowning in Web3 complexity?”

The Challenge

Tokenizing data — turning it into digital assets that can be owned, traded, and monetized — has always been a highly technical process. From decentralized storage to data streaming nodes and blockchain asset creation, the barrier to entry has been too high for organizations that just want results, not a new engineering department.

The Solution: Itheum Gateway Services

Itheum Gateway Services are Web2-friendly, SaaS-based solutions that make data tokenization effortless. Think of them as “Itheum technology resellers” — companies that abstract away the Web3 complexity so you don’t have to.

Simple Onboarding: Share your data, and the gateway handles the rest — storage, tokenization, and secure distribution.
Data as Digital Assets: Receive Data NFTs, enabling new monetization models.
Priority Access: Stream or deliver your tokenized data through Itheum’s broker nodes, ensuring smooth performance for your end users.

The first Gateway Service provider, Zedge Horizon, offers enterprise plans starting at just $129/year. Learn more and sign up here →

Why This Matters for Itheum

Itheum’s mission has always been to make data tokenization mainstream. Gateway Services help us get there by:

Expanding Reach: Bringing more data use-cases onto the Itheum protocol.
Solving Real Problems: Helping Web2 companies monetize their data without the steep Web3 learning curve.
Driving Adoption: Creating sustainable commercial demand for Itheum’s public goods infrastructure.

This is more than a new service — it’s a major step toward bridging Web2 and Web3 for real-world data monetization.

Ready to Get Started?

Organizations: Try the new Gateway Service today via Zedge Horizon.
Web2 tech providers: Want to offer Itheum-powered tokenization to your customers? Become an Itheum Gateway Service provider — email us at hello@itheum.io.

About Itheum

Itheum is a blockchain protocol that gives people and AI agents true ownership of their data. It’s the decentralized backbone for storing, tokenizing, and monetizing data — starting with music as our first real-world use case.