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Introducing Protocol Rewards: This is our chance to build things differently. A music platform that shares with the community & grows together. -> Artists earn on every single mint (free & paid). -> Curator rewards increase 10x for sharing music. **What if you could earn $ 1+ for every song you share? Now you can.** **https://sound.mirror.xyz/MegFCY1uOgDHMs3boM2y9udcbmMdmGPCr9LC2rMIS28**
Music is social. **You can now share any song or playlist on Sound to Lens.** @lens/soundxyz_ 🤝 @lens/lensprotocol You'll earn Curator Rewards anytime someone mints through your link. Excited for new ways for artists and collectors to tap into new communities.
**High gas costs suck.** Collecting music should be about the music, but lately it costs more in gas to collect a song than the cost of the song itself. Artists need to have a material amount of ETH to deploy their song, and that’s a non-starter for many. So today - we’re excited to partner with the Optimism Collective to bring Sound to a Layer 2. To commemorate our launch on a Layer 2, we’re dropping a song by Optimism co-founder Ben Jones and Sound co-founder Gigamesh as a free open edition. Available to mint for 7 days here: **sound.xyz/optimism/v-buterin**
Music NFTs will have their breakout moment. The number of artists are rising. New collectors are growing. Collectives are building. We're just getting started.
gm. who's a music artist on lens that needs more recognition? tag them below.
gm lens. Introducing the Sound Mobile App. ↳ Discover new artists & songs. ↳ Browse playlists – or create your own. ↳ Build your library & play your collection. ↳ View collectors throughout the app. Download it here ➡️ **sound.xyz/download**
Gm Lens 🌿. The Sound mobile app is here! ↳ Discover new artists ↳ Create playlists ↳ Play music in your collection & library Early access is now available for a limited number of testers. Here’s how to get it 👇 Mint the Free NFT on our blog post below and we’ll unlock access for everyone that gets in before the testing limit. https://sound.mirror.xyz/Vkfv-S6FvOFVgb58mbvLDOrYCPANJ3A1VUn4IQ3SecQ
gm lens fam. excited to announce Sound Lounge Live x @lnrzxyz.lens in Los Angeles. hosted by @soundxyz_.lens & @lnrzxyz.lens 📅 May 8, 8p-12a PT 📍the peppermint club in LA 🎧 sounds by Mija, Bloody White, @dlg_soundwaves.lens @tkthelegend.lens Madalen Duke & @tarotsings.lens RSVP ⬇️ https://partiful.com/e/hgVKKYKPvVuOCEK0WT7N
We’re excited to ship an easier way for you to fund your wallet with ETH on Sound.xyz 🌎 Coverage in 190+ countries & 140 currencies 💱 9 major onramps (incl. @moonpay, @Transak, etc) 💳 42 payment methods (incl. card, Apple Pay, ACH, etc) Details below 👇 Last week, we introduced a way for users without a wallet to sign-in via email as part of an ongoing effort to meet listeners wherever they are in their web3 journey. Now, we’ve integrated with Onramper to provide users with a way to fund their wallets with ETH. Once you’re signed in to Sound, tap your avatar and click “Add Funds”. Input the amount of ETH you want to fund, compare exchange rates between onramps, and select your preferred payment method. Up next, we’re working on offering the option for users to directly collect editions of their favorite songs using a credit card.
Can music fans make money by sharing songs they love? Yes! Here’s how to get rewarded in Web3… just by being a music fan 👇 On Sound.xyz we recently built something called ‘curator rewards.’ It’s a referral fee. If you share a link to music on Sound, and someone buys an NFT using that link, you get a 5% cut. So far, fans have helped sell 5,954 NFTs through referral links. They’ve been rewarded a total of 1.9 ETH / $3.2k just by sharing their love of music. Here are some cool ways people are using it to make money 1. Share a link The easiest way to do it is grab the link from a track you like on Sound.xyz. Share it directly on Twitter, group chats, Discord, wherever! 2. Make playlists Make a playlists of songs you love on Sound and every track automatically contains the curator fee. If someone listens to your playlist, then mints a track from it, you get paid. 3. Collect and share When you collect a track and share the news on Twitter, we automatically make it a referral link. 4. Start a music blog or curator channel In the past, music blogs had to rely on ads to monetize. Now they can be rewarded directly for curating and amplifying the best music. Add referral links to your blog posts, newsletters, social media posts. 5. Build a street team Get a group of fans together and create a street team. Share links across all your socials and fan groups around your favorite artist. Help them win and you get rewarded. 6. Use music aggregators Make a playlist on aggregators like Spinamp, FutureTape and OohLaLa which pull tracks from Sound and other platforms. Referral links are built in so you get a cut if someone collects from a playlist you made. The future… Everyone talks about the power of NFTs for artists. But what about fans? This is one of many features we are building to empower and reward fans as well as artists.
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.
gm and hope everyone had a nice easter At Sound, we and our internet frens are never too old to hunt for eggs
tune into our eighth 🎤 Sound Lounge 🎤 we cover a new topic each time and invite different web3 artists to share their insights & stories 💬 Marketing Your Music NFTs 📅 Fri, 4/7 @ 1p PT / 4p ET 🎤 @raeisla.lens, @milesryanharris.lens , Valentina Cy, and Bloody White RSVP: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1mnxeRXDLXLKX/peek
Music Monday 004 Start your week with our top picks. Read & collect ⬇️ https://investinmusic.mirror.xyz/YnV0SBHuNpVybqbaYYfUGIu2NHYDqtVZXK3sIm467Qc
The drop isn’t the end of a song’s life. The drop is just the start.
$5 million paid to artists. Thank you to all the artists and collectors that made this all happen. We won’t stop until we reach millions of music collectors. See you at $10 million!
Mints are the new streams
New York Without Me by @saraphillips.lens Open edition live at 0.005 ETH. 18 hours to mint before price goes up. https://www.sound.xyz/saraphillips/new-york-without-me
Instant collect. Easy sell. Music NFTs have never been this simple.
Introducing Sound Swap A new model for Music NFTs on @soundxyz_ Seamlessly collect and sell your favorite songs 🔽 https://investinmusic.mirror.xyz/_9PO1kIt1aLv1IT4yP1DckVpxJQmDqAJDCOpqbL6Tss
Crossings At Dawn by @matthewchaim.lens Open edition live at 0.005 ETH. 24 hours to mint before price goes up. https://www.sound.xyz/chaim/crossings-at-dawn
**✨ Introducing Sound Swap on Sound.xyz✨** gm lens🫡, For those of you that don’t know us, Sound.xyz is the home for Music NFTs. Today were launching Sound Swap, a new feature that allows you to one-click collect and sell editions of your favorite songs. Now, you can mint editions of a song at any time for new Sound Swap drops, even after the primary sale ends. As new editions are collected after the primary sale, funds are stored in a liquidity pool. As the pool grows, you can instantly sell your editions at the current market price. Sound Swap automatically determines the price based on how many editions have been collected, serving as a price discovery mechanism between supply and demand. We’re excited to debut the first Sound Swap drop with @reocragun.lens for his new song, “Spent”. The primary sale starts now at 4:00PM EST and will be a 24-hour open edition at 0.005 ETH per edition. Sound Swap activates when the open edition ends on March 29th at 4:00PM EST. https://www.sound.xyz/reocragun/spent Read on for more details. https://sound.mirror.xyz/sZSBTW1J4MS-6LQsVklaXaGceeC-kDIcUSDCHvTEqws Be sure to collect this post for more alpha from the Sound team.