Digital asset transaction platform and system

A method for managing software program transactions and use, comprising:

• logging in as a registered user to an Internet-connected platform having a server with a processor coupled to a data repository, the processor executing software providing interactive interfaces to registered users employing computerized devices coupled to the platform through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the data repository storing profiles for registered users and an inventory of software programs for sale or rent by a host of the platform, with titles and characteristics;
• negotiating a purchase or a rental of an individual one of the inventory of software programs by the registered user through individual ones of the interactive interfaces;
• instantiating a license for the software program as a non-fungible token (NFT) minted by a Smart Contract created on a Blockchain, defining permanent and variable properties for the software program, and recording the license on a Software Title Ledger;
• populating the NFT with critical properties;
• associating the NFT with the registered user's profile;
• and
• providing the software program to the registered user ready to execute.