We believe that for independent music to flourish, communities need tools that can free them from depending on the policies of private companies.
Why does it matter if you rely on private companies?
Private companies can make decisions to:
- Demonetize your music without recourse. (Spotify)
- Delete your music or charge you in perpetuity to keep your music public. (YouTube)(SoundCloud)
- Change ownership and leave you wondering what that means for you and your music. (BandCamp)(SoundCloud)
These policy changes threaten artists’ ability to sustain their music.
So how is Nina different?
We build the core tools we offer on blockchains. Uploading your music, making/receiving payments and connecting with other users all occurs on chain, making these actions transparent and allowing integrations to external sites.
We are interested in blockchains because they allow you to create software and store data in a manner that frees those tools from a single company’s control and allows users to own their own data. We are not interested in encouraging speculation.
Because Nina uses blockchains, we offer some unique and powerful features.
- Artists keep 100% of sales - because blockchains enable direct peer to peer payments.
- Artists own fan relationships - because social connections are publicly stored data
- You own your Nina data and can take it from site to site - because data is stored publicly on chain
Finally - because Nina uses the blockchain, our software will exist publicly for anyone to use whether or not our company does. The payment rails, social elements and upload logic/catalog of music all exist online independently of our company’s operations.