Crypto is on its way to the masses. Privy raised their $18M Series A led by Paradigm to build smart wallets for the next generation of onchain users. Sound unveiled magic withdrawals, closing the loop on a fully gassless experience for artists and collectors on the platform. RŌHKI set an example for onchain community management by allowing users to vote on a supply reduction for their huge CERULEAN EP release. IYK has been refining its tools and platform to help create the future of digi-phys...

Crypto is on its way to the masses. Privy raised their $18M Series A led by Paradigm to build smart wallets for the next generation of onchain users. Sound unveiled magic withdrawals, closing the loop on a fully gassless experience for artists and collectors on the platform. RŌHKI set an example for onchain community management by allowing users to vote on a supply reduction for their huge CERULEAN EP release. IYK has been refining its tools and platform to help create the future of digi-phys...

Getting onchain is slowly getting easier. Zora integrated Privy for email sign-ups and gassless uploads. Sound teamed up with Coinbase Wallet to reward fans with OP. We’re getting ready for the SongCamp C4 debuting later today. Arden Jones partnered with IYK to give fans unreleased music. Spotify Wrapped took over our feeds and we’re excited to see onchain spinoffs on the feature. We’re looking at you Sound, Spinamp 👀 It’s clear that everyone is focused on bringing a new audience onchain. Wh...

Getting onchain is slowly getting easier. Zora integrated Privy for email sign-ups and gassless uploads. Sound teamed up with Coinbase Wallet to reward fans with OP. We’re getting ready for the SongCamp C4 debuting later today. Arden Jones partnered with IYK to give fans unreleased music. Spotify Wrapped took over our feeds and we’re excited to see onchain spinoffs on the feature. We’re looking at you Sound, Spinamp 👀 It’s clear that everyone is focused on bringing a new audience onchain. Wh...

The experiences around onchain music are getting more powerful by the day. Sound’s new feed lets you post and share music - creating a novel social experience around the leading platform for onchain music. Showtime debuted their new Creator Tokens with CEO Alex Masmej being the first to test it out. RAVEN REALM from Jadyn Violet has been holding strong with mints throughout the week. The project will track the songs’ performance on Spotify to dynamically upgrade the metadata. Mint yours here....

The experiences around onchain music are getting more powerful by the day. Sound’s new feed lets you post and share music - creating a novel social experience around the leading platform for onchain music. Showtime debuted their new Creator Tokens with CEO Alex Masmej being the first to test it out. RAVEN REALM from Jadyn Violet has been holding strong with mints throughout the week. The project will track the songs’ performance on Spotify to dynamically upgrade the metadata. Mint yours here....

It got easier to drop music onchain this week. Zora announced their new gassless minting, enabling anyone to mint their music at no cost. Bonfire introduced its wallet and credit card checkout. Mint.fun announced their new tool to mint NFTs in just two clicks. TK announced “Garden X,” a creative venture studio focused on building and expanding the Eternal Garden universe. The pieces are falling into place - , and we're inching closer to a reality where minting music is as straightforward...

It got easier to drop music onchain this week. Zora announced their new gassless minting, enabling anyone to mint their music at no cost. Bonfire introduced its wallet and credit card checkout. Mint.fun announced their new tool to mint NFTs in just two clicks. TK announced “Garden X,” a creative venture studio focused on building and expanding the Eternal Garden universe. The pieces are falling into place - , and we're inching closer to a reality where minting music is as straightforward...

Onchain streaming is growing with a shared focused to meet fans where they’re at. Sona just launched their new free streaming platform with a genesis auction from Tokimonsta. Spinamp created Spinamp Wrapped to showcase your onchain music. Songcamp made a leaderboard to round out the last day to mint the C4 collection. Sound teased a number of features to make music “multiplayer.” All that goes to say - everything is pointing towards onchain music being fun and easy for fans. Daniel Allan anno...

Onchain streaming is growing with a shared focused to meet fans where they’re at. Sona just launched their new free streaming platform with a genesis auction from Tokimonsta. Spinamp created Spinamp Wrapped to showcase your onchain music. Songcamp made a leaderboard to round out the last day to mint the C4 collection. Sound teased a number of features to make music “multiplayer.” All that goes to say - everything is pointing towards onchain music being fun and easy for fans. Daniel Allan anno...

Onchain social took a major turn this week. Farcaster opened to the public - driving thousands of new users to one of the hottest apps on Optimism. Zora surfaced their referral links and Sound opened Tiers to all artists. Great music, art and posts are close to free to collect - and now we have an audience to share them with. Onchain Curator reached 150 accounts as we wrapped up the first month of our grant program to reward curators for driving mints on Optimism. Safe to say - the tides are ...

Onchain social took a major turn this week. Farcaster opened to the public - driving thousands of new users to one of the hottest apps on Optimism. Zora surfaced their referral links and Sound opened Tiers to all artists. Great music, art and posts are close to free to collect - and now we have an audience to share them with. Onchain Curator reached 150 accounts as we wrapped up the first month of our grant program to reward curators for driving mints on Optimism. Safe to say - the tides are ...

Onchain music is finding new use cases. Songcamp released their newest lineup of artists. PartyDAO created a new way for creators to earn ETH rewards. Royal teased a new product strategy. Sound plans to make music “multi-player.” Starter Packs Season 1 is looking for artists to apply to their incubator program. All this comes together to say, there are many different outlets for artists to experiment with onchain music. We’re talking about the latest in the Invest in Music chat. Here’s what h...

Onchain music is finding new use cases. Songcamp released their newest lineup of artists. PartyDAO created a new way for creators to earn ETH rewards. Royal teased a new product strategy. Sound plans to make music “multi-player.” Starter Packs Season 1 is looking for artists to apply to their incubator program. All this comes together to say, there are many different outlets for artists to experiment with onchain music. We’re talking about the latest in the Invest in Music chat. Here’s what h...

It was a big week for onchain music. We saw major announcements from Sound and Audius - two market leaders taking big strides towards their next chapter. Aave debuted their IRL passport ahead of Devconnect and Spinamp released a number of features including collaborative playlists. RŌHKI announced CERULEAN - their newest EP while Jen announced a new text-to-music app powered by Futureverse with support from industry legend Mike Caren. This all goes to say that onchain music is becoming more s...

It was a big week for onchain music. We saw major announcements from Sound and Audius - two market leaders taking big strides towards their next chapter. Aave debuted their IRL passport ahead of Devconnect and Spinamp released a number of features including collaborative playlists. RŌHKI announced CERULEAN - their newest EP while Jen announced a new text-to-music app powered by Futureverse with support from industry legend Mike Caren. This all goes to say that onchain music is becoming more s...

Artists are sharing ownership onchain. UNSEEN CLUB just went live with digi-physical merch where holders earn splits from forever editions. RŌHKI’s new CERULEAN EP gives collectors 5% of sales for collecting the full set. Sound integrated Farcaster and Lens - creating more direct channels to earn curators fees for sharing songs onchain. rAAVE took over DevConnect in Istanbul on the back of their sold out GHO Pass and Zora introduced batch uploads. Decent and Privy teamed up for a market map o...

Artists are sharing ownership onchain. UNSEEN CLUB just went live with digi-physical merch where holders earn splits from forever editions. RŌHKI’s new CERULEAN EP gives collectors 5% of sales for collecting the full set. Sound integrated Farcaster and Lens - creating more direct channels to earn curators fees for sharing songs onchain. rAAVE took over DevConnect in Istanbul on the back of their sold out GHO Pass and Zora introduced batch uploads. Decent and Privy teamed up for a market map o...

New prizes just dropped for onchain artists. Optimism launched “We ❤️ The Art” - distributing 1M OP tokens to up to 184 potential winners. Somehoodlum launched Somefund, a $250,000 fund for 28 creatives. This comes on the back of gasless uploads from Sound, the new SplitsKit and a new AI wallet from Dawn. RAC teased a new type of DAO and a16z shared a market map on AI music companies to watch. Theres no shortage of new experiments in the air - and with ETH breaking $2k, NFTs are seeing a glim...

New prizes just dropped for onchain artists. Optimism launched “We ❤️ The Art” - distributing 1M OP tokens to up to 184 potential winners. Somehoodlum launched Somefund, a $250,000 fund for 28 creatives. This comes on the back of gasless uploads from Sound, the new SplitsKit and a new AI wallet from Dawn. RAC teased a new type of DAO and a16z shared a market map on AI music companies to watch. Theres no shortage of new experiments in the air - and with ETH breaking $2k, NFTs are seeing a glim...

Invest in Music has championed the development of Optimism since its launch on Sound in June. We published educational content like the Optimism Starter Pack. We covered Optimism’s vision, grants, and retroactive funding in our podcast with Binji from OP Labs. Most recently, we published the OP Retro Funding Cheat Sheet to help artists and creators get rewarded for their contributions to Optimism. And we also submitted our application for the OP retro, which you can read below. ​​*This post w...

Invest in Music has championed the development of Optimism since its launch on Sound in June. We published educational content like the Optimism Starter Pack. We covered Optimism’s vision, grants, and retroactive funding in our podcast with Binji from OP Labs. Most recently, we published the OP Retro Funding Cheat Sheet to help artists and creators get rewarded for their contributions to Optimism. And we also submitted our application for the OP retro, which you can read below. ​​*This post w...

Onchain social is heating up. Catalog just announced their Radio product along with a new mechanism called cosigns. Sound acquired Soho to boost their mobile experience and onboard a new CTO. Rainbow introduced points - the latest in a series of consumer products exploring a new meta. Farcaster broke their record daily active users - combined with a contentious new memecoin. Decent unveiled their new onramp product, making it easier for teams to bring liquidity into their ecosystem. All this ...

Onchain social is heating up. Catalog just announced their Radio product along with a new mechanism called cosigns. Sound acquired Soho to boost their mobile experience and onboard a new CTO. Rainbow introduced points - the latest in a series of consumer products exploring a new meta. Farcaster broke their record daily active users - combined with a contentious new memecoin. Decent unveiled their new onramp product, making it easier for teams to bring liquidity into their ecosystem. All this ...