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DAOs Primed to Play Key Role in Artist-Fan Relationship: ‘It’s Not About Remaking the Old Industry; It’s a Whole New Thing’
The relationship between artist and fan is ever evolving and how it will look in the years to come will not at all resemble its past. So as music and Web3 intersect, questions are being explored. L…
What is EightBit?
The OG 8-Bit avatar creator launched back in 2010. The app allows people to collect coins & other digital goods by checking into p…
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Agile research: How we put together $STREAM Season 1 — Mirror
Last month, we rolled out our first-ever collaborative report as a DAO — an in-depth, five-part syllabus on the state of music/Web3, assembled by over 40 contributors from our community.
Music NFTs 101: an Artist-to-Artist guide — Mirror
You may have been wondering what an NFT is, and more specifically, what a music NFT is. If you asked us one year ago, it’s likely none of us would’ve had any clue. Now looking back at 2021, we’ve seen music NFTs change the lives of artists in a myriad of ways.
As you may have heard, we are working on Snapshot X (previously named StarkVote) in collaboration with the StarkWare team. This solution will improve Snapshot in many ways. This is the first in a series of posts that aim to explain and go through the upcoming solution.
The CryptoLexicon is a crowd-sourced community-owned dictionary geared to increase coordination in web3 and stress test a crypto-economic model for content publishing in our newfound digital dimension.
This a response to Moxie Marlinspike’s “My First Impression of Web3”
Both gave me a feeling for how the space works. To be clear, there is nothing particularly “distributed” about the apps themselves: they’re just normal react websites. The “distributedness” refers to where the state and the logic/permissions for updating the state lives: on the blockchain instead of in a “centralized” database.
Just to clarify, this is what the author wanted to do.
Fungible vs Non-Fungible Tokens – What is The Difference?
Today we are going to look into fungible vs Non-Fungible Tokens, aka NFTs, aka nifty. They burst into the mainstream with the sudden popularity of cryptokitties – a virtual cat collectible game. While the Ethereum-based ERC-721 remains the most popular NFT in the market, there are several projects out there, like RSK, that have produced their own collectible tokens. So, before we go into any of this, let’s do some background research. What is A Token? In real life, a token is a thing which serves as a visible or tangible representation of a fact, quality, feeling, etc. you can