To the Invest in Music community, Thank you for your support over the last 14 months. When we launched Invest in Music we had one goal. Creating a home for the onchain music community. After 58 podcast episodes, over 60 newsletters, artist spotlights, and thousands of mints across all our different series - we’re very proud to have delivered on

Farcaster and Base continue to be a place where onchain music thrives. This week - Farcaster revealed a new priority mode - and Base shared that almost $2.5B of USDC are on the network. We’re gearing up for Farcon next week in LA, with Farconcert coming up Thursday night. Need some onchain tracks to get you pumped up before then? Kasbo quickly retu

Lots of great music emerged this week, many of them in collaboration with our sponsor Coop Records Music. Coop Records finalized a collaboration with Helix for the latest demotapes track featuring Reo Cragun - Wishing Well.Daniel Allan is back with his first single since “I Just Need” called “Spaceman” with RIZ LA VIE and Emilia Ali. Memba made the

Onchain earnings are becoming more accessible by the day. Zora integrated credit cards and Apple Pay while Fabric announced an accelerator to help five creators earn recurring revenue through onchain subscriptions. This comes on the back of Drakula sending out their second week of creator payouts and IYK announcing their Creator:Chipped finalists.

Onchain social platforms are living breathing support system for artists. More and more people are joining Farcaster and Lens - and getting rewarded for participating. Drakula - the video app built on Farcaster - sent ~$1000 worth of DEGEN to 50 creators, many being music artists. Orb - a Lens Protocol based mobile app - hit a new real-time active

Onchain social is finding new ways to support creators.   Drakula launched their creator fund - filled with 20M DEGEN (~$400K) to support the best creators on the onchain TikTok. Spinamp made the first music playback Farcaster frame, making it easy for anyone to listen to a song and collect it directly on the timeline. Optimism launched a new retro

Optimism announced a new era for their retroactive rewards program. Now rebranded as Retro Funding, the collective has allocated 850M OP (∼$3.3B) to the program that rewards impact across the Superchain. Previously operating as a broad, annual event, the rewards program will now be segmented into four distinct categories, each with its own deadline

While the market is seeing a spike - music hasn’t broken through. Vault.fm launched a new subscription product in partnership with James Blake along with features in Pigeons and Planes, Complex and dozens of other major music outlets. It may not be fully onchain - but the principles of direct to fan relationships are a huge step forward. This co

There’s never been a better time to be onchain. EIP 4844 went live - cutting gas costs by upwards of 80% on the main L2s where onchain music lives. Optimism announced the winner of their We <3 the Art competition - with prizes anywhere from ~$200K to $4K. Check out the full list of winners here! Drakula launched an onchain TikTok - driving $1M o

47 artists won prizes in Optimism’s 'We <3 the Art' contest. 300k OP (∼ $1.2M) are being distributed across four tiers, with each winner receiving at least 1K OP. The winners, coming from diverse communities, represent a wide range of genres and styles, highlighting the diversity in onchain music. We've previously highlighted the contest winners