# Developers should get paid like musicians

By [Jonathan Glancy](https://paragraph.com/@jmglancy) · 2022-07-11

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**Client: Radix**

Jay-Z gets paid every time someone streams his music, so why can’t a developer get paid every time someone uses their code? 

We see a world where anyone who contributes code to the functionality of DeFi automatically gets rewarded.

It sounds crazy, but the album is about to drop.

They’re called _Blueprints_ on the world’s first open-source DeFi marketplace, where developers can earn royalties from the code they build and share.

Here’s how it works…

Developers publish code to a catalog of common components right on the Radix Network. These _Blueprints_ can be entire dApps or useful bits of functionality that can be leveraged by other developers to build their own dApps better and faster. 

If desired, developers can set a royalty fee every time the _Blueprint_ gets used in a real transaction.

Whether launching a new DeFi startup or contributing useful code to the network, the developer experience will never be the same. 

Post-Malone and Billie Eilish wrote big money hits from their bedrooms with only a keyboard and internet connection. It’s time for DeFi developers to have the same opportunity.

All it takes is one hit - one _Blueprint_ - to accelerate the trajectory of DeFi and reward developers in perpetuity.

In the words of Jay-Z, “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man.”

And so are developers. It’s time they start earning like one too.

**Radix - Radically Different DeFi**

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*Originally published on [Jonathan Glancy](https://paragraph.com/@jmglancy/developers-should-get-paid-like-musicians)*