Computer programming and computer system analysis. A digital asset title and management as a service software and services technology for a distributed or decentralized ledger system for verification of owner self-sovereign identity, recording of titled asset provenance, ownership and titling information. The TitleChain ledger technologies may store any validated asset information to tie a particular digital asset provenance tag to an associated asset such as a patent, trademark, serial number, or other identifying indicia. The digital asset provenance tag and unique identifiers may further store or title information regarding the provenance of the asset in question, including the history of the production and previous ownership of the non-fungible or fungible asset. Thus, a prospective purchaser of the asset can confirm that the asset is what it is purported to be and that the seller is actually the owner of the asset prior to purchase of a digital titled asset. Digital Asset as a service (DAAS) featuring software for enabling cryptographic communications and the encrypted digital title transfer and review of physical to digital files documents and objects; A decentralized or distributed blockchain agnostic software platform for interfacing with decentralized finance exchanges, peer-to-peer networks, for asset management and transactions, for maintaining the security and integrity of intellectual property rights management for capturing various types of minting, custodianship, micropayments, escrow, underwriting, custody, liens, abandonments and archival of regulatory and legal digital files and data, for transferring data and digital files, for use in verifying a chain of title ownership and custody TitleChain is a method for tracking a provenance of an asset in a blockchain or distributed ledger technology, the method comprising the steps of: generating a digital asset provenance tag for the asset; storing the digital asset provenance tag on the TitleChain blockchain; adding to the digital asset provenance tag one or more asset identifying indicia corresponding to and uniquely identifying and issue a title for the asset; adding to the digital asset provenance tag one or more items of asset authentication information corresponding to the asset and verifying a source of the asset; adding to the digital asset provenance tag one or more items of asset ownership history information identifying a chain of one or more previous titleholders and owners of the asset; and recording, on the blockchain, a transaction involving transferring the asset to a new owner, wherein the step of recording the transaction involving the asset causes the new owner to be added to the one or more items of asset TitleChain ownership history