Crypto, Meet HiFi Labs
TL;DR the future is decentralized, but only if we don’t miss our opportunity right now.Dear Crypto & HiFi Labs, In 2016 I committed 100% of my professional life to crypto and music. In that time I’ve been abundantly lucky to work with incredible artists, friends, and companies. Today, I’m excited to announce my next chapter: leading crypto efforts at HiFi Labs. Crypto, HiFi Labs is a team of creatives, technical visionaries and leaders in modern artist development on a mission to tear down si...
Crypto, Meet HiFi Labs
TL;DR the future is decentralized, but only if we don’t miss our opportunity right now.Dear Crypto & HiFi Labs, In 2016 I committed 100% of my professional life to crypto and music. In that time I’ve been abundantly lucky to work with incredible artists, friends, and companies. Today, I’m excited to announce my next chapter: leading crypto efforts at HiFi Labs. Crypto, HiFi Labs is a team of creatives, technical visionaries and leaders in modern artist development on a mission to tear down si...
Programmable Collateral: Bringing Music Royalties On-Chain
The exciting ways to use Ethereum stretch far beyond financial applications - as NFTs are currently showing, but a less-than-sexy area of music, royalties, are already being paid faster and more efficiently today using DeFi and NFTs. Paperchain is a company that was formed in 2017 and founded by Dan Dewar. After riding through the rise and fall of the 2017-2018 period in crypto they had landed on a strong value proposition: collateralize streaming data for an artist on Spotify and use that to...
Programmable Collateral: Bringing Music Royalties On-Chain
The exciting ways to use Ethereum stretch far beyond financial applications - as NFTs are currently showing, but a less-than-sexy area of music, royalties, are already being paid faster and more efficiently today using DeFi and NFTs. Paperchain is a company that was formed in 2017 and founded by Dan Dewar. After riding through the rise and fall of the 2017-2018 period in crypto they had landed on a strong value proposition: collateralize streaming data for an artist on Spotify and use that to...
31 Ideas for Music + Crypto
In 2021 the world turned their eyes on crypto and what it could do for creators. It was NFT this, NFT that, and it was seemingly everywhere. This was incredibly exciting - and rightfully so - crypto, web3, blockchain, whatever you call it have implications far beyond their obvious financial utilities. In the midst of the NFT mania in March 2021 I decided to take it upon myself to tweet about a unique crypto + music use case every day. My main goal was to illustrate the magnitude of potential ...
31 Ideas for Music + Crypto
In 2021 the world turned their eyes on crypto and what it could do for creators. It was NFT this, NFT that, and it was seemingly everywhere. This was incredibly exciting - and rightfully so - crypto, web3, blockchain, whatever you call it have implications far beyond their obvious financial utilities. In the midst of the NFT mania in March 2021 I decided to take it upon myself to tweet about a unique crypto + music use case every day. My main goal was to illustrate the magnitude of potential ...
