Investing in Royal - a16z crypto

What’s groundbreaking about crypto is that it shifts the web from social currency to economic currency. When I like your Instagram post today, I grant you some social capital; what’s the equivalent for the cryptomedia age? Me “liking” your content may mean me financially investing in your success and sharing in future income. Maybe Spotify’s Year i... See more

Now imagine what might happen if an artist could effectively buy into a song by purchasing some of its tokens on Royal or another platform, and then profit directly from the success of the remix. Suddenly, all the right incentives are aligned. The creators can create, and the owners get paid.

Tokenization creates new ways of working with IP that were previously unavailable or too expensive to set up. For example, blockchain technology will automate IP provenance, use tracking, and rights management. Using existing standards and smart contracts, NFTs can be fractionalized, co-owned, and governed by multiple users or communities. Fraction... See more