Jason Meinzer (@jasonmeinzer) • Hey

product mgr. pursuing onchain music | onchain artist relations @rohki | music patent 11,620,649 | @techstars alum | @zagster cofounder (acq. by superpedest

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Generally speaking, what's the best DeFi tool for analyzing the APY of all the liquidity pools out there (aside from @defillama)?
Just joined the Bytexplorers 🔍 to learn more about onchain data with @andrewhong5297 and community: guild.xyz/bytexplorers
Collected the first track off the forthcoming EP from @danielallan.eth with @THANKYOURIZ and Emilia Ali https://www.sound.xyz/danielallan/spaceman-with-riz-la-vie-and-emilia-ali?referral=0x892e7d0d45171c97f2f1c73815c1cebef3d1f812&referral_source=link
The concept of bringing open markets as business models to [onchain] music is going to be hindered this early in its life cycle when it's a niche of all these other bigger markets [digital art, etc.] but one day it [music] will stand on its own (paraphrasing @blockchainbrett.lens).
*think I just collected 1/100 Daft Jack lol - the first derivative PFPerson from CryptoCitizen52 and a fellow fren of mine from the Westside 🤙
Many of us recall onchain music rights experiments Ujo, Open Music Initiative, etc. iterated on wayyy back, but TBH I had to really refresh my memory when @cheriehu mentioned JAAK from 2017 in this insightful convo. on music IP w/ @soundexchange: youtube.com/watch?v=GUhJH3bJRE8
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Onchain isn’t always synonymous with decentralized… and a making a points system for a community cross-compatible offchain could have merit, too. @ethdenver @bello @levychain.lens
I just minted Ep 34 - Roneil Rumburg by Invest In Music https://investinmusic.xyz/
Just minted Ep 21 - Camel Ventures's post by Invest In Music https://investinmusic.xyz/
Can’t think of a more capable protocol than @decentxyz.lens for experiments implementing constructs of the world’s 1st web3 music patent for capital distribution, so it being on their @link3to.lens Creator Story leaderboard with pioneers like @ibninglor.lens is an honor: https://link3.to/post/contest
Big news: Sound will soon be open to all artists 🔊 We always promised to build an open platform. Now we’re getting close… A thread 👇 From day one we promised that Sound would eventually open to everyone. All artists should have access to the best Web3 tools. We’ll have more details soon, but today we wanted to give you some transparency on the thought process behind opening up… 🔶 The tl;dr Before Sound opens, we need to make sure everything is ready: 1. Smooth onboarding process 2. Building features for a mass audience. 3. Battle testing the platform. 4. Do things that don’t scale. 5. Verifying audio ownership 6. Thank you for being patient 🙏 Let’s go through them… 🔶 1. Smooth onboarding So far we have personally onboarded all 400 artists one-by-one on video calls. By doing this we learned all the pain points and deeply understood who we are building for. Now we can turn that process into seamless onboarding for all artists. 🔶 2. Building features for mass audience We are thinking big. Sound needs to be ready for millions of music fans and tens of thousands of artists. That means building features that work at scale, such as: 🔹Simplifying the user experience Email sign-ups Credit card payments Mobile app 🔹Building a discovery layer Better ways to discover music on Sound beyond the first 24-hours of a drop. And the ability to browse through thousands of artists. 🔹Sustainable drop methods Offer an alternative to the ‘sellout’ mentality. We wanted to give artists a sustainable, long-term way to sell their music, which is why we built Sound Swap. These features are rolling out to all artists over the coming weeks. 🔶 3. Battle testing the platform To get to the point where we’re ready for millions of music fans, we needed to stress test every part of the platform and iterate fast. Working closely with a curated group of artists allowed us to do that and get feedback in real time. Together we’ve experimented with hundreds of features and honed the product until it's ready. We figured out what works. What didn’t work. We refined it. Now we can roll it out to everyone. 🔶 4. Doing things that don’t scale A core principle of building a startup is doing things that don’t scale. We onboarded every artist with a white-glove service. We hosted daily Twitter Spaces to showcase artists. We tweeted about every drop. We spoke to artists and collectors every single day. All of these things were essential for kickstarting the flywheel. Now there’s enough momentum that Sound can accelerate on its own. 🔶 5. Verifying audio ownership Opening up Sound will bring new challenges for our team… For example, what happens if someone uploads music that doesn’t belong to them? We’ve been building tools to counter this problem (such as audio footprint technology). We also wanted to focus all our resources on the core product rather than fighting legal issues at such an early stage. 🔶 6. Thank you for being patient We know that hundreds of artists have applied to Sound and waited patiently. We hear your feedback about decentralization. Trust that we’ve been working towards this from day one and we’re nearly there. Within three months every artist will have access to Sound and all our artist tools. The next era of music NFTs is coming. Thanks for coming on this journey with us.
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