Le Blog du Matt

A month ago, I launched Tortoise, a music collective and product studio built on Farcaster. There were three main pieces of this launch:Deployed the Tortoise Token ($TORT) Launched the Tortoise Player, a Farcaster mini app for streaming, sharing, and collecting music Released a song called Vains on the Tortoise PlayerA ton of work went into this launch, and it was quite successful. The project took over the timeline on launch day, $TORT did over a million USD in volume, and most importantly, ...

Tortoise is a social music streaming platform built on Base and Farcaster. The primary goal of Tortoise is to rebuild the failed digital music economy from the ground up. Moving from a pay to access model to a pay to associate model.The Music Value GapPeople listen to music for hours every day. It's the soundtrack to work, exercise, commutes, cooking, cleaning, parties, breakups. Try to imagine your life without music. You probably can't. The current value being added to people's lives by the...

Meme coins, defined for our porpoises as a cryptocurrency that is backed mainly by an idea rather than some economic use case, are seeing billions of dollars in volume. Right now, most of this activity is centered around silly internet jokes like Doge and Pepe, which is generally fun and good, but what if there was this level of activity around coins that benefited all types of artists and not just meme lords? I hope to take a step in this direction with my new token project.Token Creator Fee...