For artists everywhere - consider the infrastructure required to handle the inflows generated by your efforts. This will be a boring, commerce driven and entrepreneurial piece of writing.

As the Music NFTs movement continues to evolve, there are many individuals and groups who are dedicating their time, energy, and resources to advocating for and advancing the movement. While their contributions are invaluable, the reality is that the current state of the space may not be sustainable for them in the long term.

Through the Decent Protocol, any team with a beginner developer can deploy a smart contract and build their own mint page in as little as 10 minutes!

The collapse of FTX threw my week off. Another case of a centralized entity crashing and burning. To me, this is a reminder of the need to decentralize. DeFi is fine. Ethereum is fine. Music nfts are fine. Just the centralized, traditional, entities having issues. 🏦

Late last year, our team of touring artists, music lovers, builders, and economists came together because we saw a problem with the music industry as we knew it. 

For 14+ years Song a Day Mann has been releasing a song, every single day (5,000+ days). He’s written a bunch of songs about the Merge (when Ethereum transitioned from PoW ➡️ PoS). This past month, I had the pleasure of working together with Jonathan to create an 12-song album to celebrate the merge, one of the biggest events in the life of Ethereum. This article is a reflection on my experience, what we set out to achieve, what went well & lessons learned along the way.

We are launching a Nounish protocol and creation tool called Creator Nouns that allows creators to monetize using recurring auctions. Anyone can upload a collection consisting of images (and soon any file types like audio or video) and run auctions (which you can try here), with their own creator-owned NFT contract. Continuous auctions can be a powerful mechanism to fund systematically underfunded goods and a way for patrons funding them to have provenance in the work being funded.

music nfts have emerged as a subset of the nft ecosystem focused on music metadata. There are a few different origins for most music nfts:

Gm fam!