October 28, 2026 · 8 min read
What the Chain Knows About a Song
Putting music onchain means more than selling shares of it. The chain should know what the audio is, and be able to trust it.
October 28, 2026 · 8 min read
Putting music onchain means more than selling shares of it. The chain should know what the audio is, and be able to trust it.
October 20, 2026 · 8 min read
Music pays a standing bill to keep its royalty institutions running. Math doesn't need one.
October 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Follow one Spotify subscription to the people who made the song. Two of the five companies in between only move money. The label and the publisher do real creative work, but they also own the copyright, and that's where their leverage comes from.
October 18, 2026 · 7 min read
One play in Berlin, one American songwriter, two countries' collecting societies and more than a year. The music crosses the border instantly; the money stops at it.
October 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Paying the artist behind a small track now costs more than the track earns. Elsewhere, moving money got cheap where companies had to compete to move it. At music's payment layer, almost nobody does.
September 10, 2026 · 25 min read
Every serious asset class got settlement infrastructure built for it. Music never did... until now.