Hey there,
Did you know there is a decentralized alternative to Spotify, SoundCloud or other centralized streaming services? A while ago I found audius.org which is a blockchain-based, decentralized music streaming service with social media capabilities. It is powered by an open source community of artists, fans and developers and has its own native crypto token, AUDIO. As of July 2021, Audius had more than five million monthly active users.
source: wikipedia.org
Audius is a digital streaming service that connects fans directly with artists and exclusive new music.
It does this by being fully decentralized: Audius is owned and run by a vibrant, open-source community of artists, fans, and api all around the world. Audius gives artists the power to share never-before-heard music and monetize streams directly. With the Audius API, developers can build their own apps on top of Audius, giving them access to one of the most unique audio catalogs in existence.
The Sri Lankan Hip hop artist Ranidu Lankage founded Audius in 2018 with the purpose to cut out the middleman and enable artists to get paid their fair share. source: everipedia.org
As a platform owned and operated by its users, the future of Audius is entirely driven by $AUDIO governance. Everything about Audius is governable, with voting weight directly correlated to $AUDIO staked for value-added services
audius.org
If you are interested, you can download the official white paper here
https://whitepaper.audius.co/
You can download their app to you smart phone for Android or iOS and start listening right away. Here some screen shot of the interface
The design is simple and similar to other streaming services
You can create your own profile and follow your favorite artist or follow another user (feel free to follow me🤗)
About the Audio token
AUDIO is the native platform token of the Audius streaming protocol. AUDIO is staked for security, feature access and governance and earned by artists, fans and node operators who drive Audius.
source: coingecko.com
I think it is an amazing project and I will definitely keep an eye on it. I haven't bought any tokens yet but I consider it for sure.
Have you any experience with audius.org? Maybe you have uploaded your music there? I would love to know!
And what do you think about audius.org?
Can it compete with the the other big streaming services or will it stay a niche for crypto fans?
Thanks for reading!