31 Ideas for Music + Crypto

The author argues that blockchain could address long-standing problems in music payments, rights data and artist identity, and tallies these as 31 daily use-case ideas posted in March 2021. Imogen Heap's 2015 song "Tiny Human," made with Consensys, used smart contracts to split payments among collaborators at the point of sale. The text presents Trusted Content Registries (TCRs), first conceived by Mike Goldin at ConsenSys, as a possible on-chain rights registry, noting the Global Repertoire Database failed due to collecting societies' reluctance to share data. It also cites RAC making more from tips than album sales on the first day of his EGO release using Ujo Music.