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...

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...

Backpacks is the closest word we have to describe the benefits of crypto that will resonate with the widest possible audience.

Backpacks is the closest word we have to describe the benefits of crypto that will resonate with the widest possible audience.

We have the opportunity to build a new music industry on shared, open data. We see a world where music data is no longer trapped on platforms. Instea...

We have the opportunity to build a new music industry on shared, open data. We see a world where music data is no longer trapped on platforms. Instea...

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...

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...

Spotify creates 100 billion new data points every day.A detailed web of likes, follows, playlists, and listening activity.They know your music taste....

Spotify creates 100 billion new data points every day.A detailed web of likes, follows, playlists, and listening activity.They know your music taste....

The recorded music industry made $35 billion last year.Sounds like a lot, but, for context, that’s about 1/10th the value of Walmart.Can you really s...

The recorded music industry made $35 billion last year.Sounds like a lot, but, for context, that’s about 1/10th the value of Walmart.Can you really s...

Choose your 8 favorite artists.Match with people who like the same music as you.Poke them.Try it.Poke is a silly little app we built for music fans o...

Choose your 8 favorite artists.Match with people who like the same music as you.Poke them.Try it.Poke is a silly little app we built for music fans o...

Today we’re launching Oscillator’s first app: Fan Score. We started Oscillator to build in the design space of artist-fan data.

Today we’re launching Oscillator’s first app: Fan Score. We started Oscillator to build in the design space of artist-fan data.

This is how it should work.You follow someone on one app → automatically follow them on every other active crypto app.Artists shouldn’t have to rebui...

This is how it should work.You follow someone on one app → automatically follow them on every other active crypto app.Artists shouldn’t have to rebui...

You'll often hear buzzwords thrown around in web3 music circles like "permissionless," "open source," "interoperability" and "composability." But wha...

You'll often hear buzzwords thrown around in web3 music circles like "permissionless," "open source," "interoperability" and "composability." But wha...