Layer 0 for music — extract value for musicians, tokenize catalogs, enable music finance, connect the industry on-chain.
Muzix is the infrastructure layer for music finance. Built on the OP Stack, it connects musicians, labels, distributors, streaming platforms, and fans through a shared on-chain settlement layer.
It is not a music app. It is the layer that music apps, labels, distributors, and financial products plug into.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Music Industry │
│ Artists · Labels · Distributors · DSPs · Fans · Investors │
└──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
│
┌──────────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────┐
│ Muzix (Layer 0) │
│ Shared settlement, identity, and value layer │
├─────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬─────────────────┤
│ Tokenize │ Finance │ Settle │ Connect │
│ │ │ │ │
│ Catalogs │ Royalty │ Music │ DSP ↔ Label │
│ Songs │ advances │ stablecoins │ Artist ↔ Fan │
│ Rights │ Catalog │ (MUSD) │ Label ↔ Dist │
│ Splits │ lending │ Cross-border│ Publisher ↔ │
│ Shares │ Revenue │ instant │ Collector │
│ │ swaps │ settlement │ │
└─────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴─────────────────┘
│
┌──────────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────┐
│ OP Stack / Ethereum │
│ Security, finality, composability │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The music industry moves $28B+ annually through a system designed in the 1970s:
- Artists wait 6-18 months for royalty payments to clear through 5+ intermediaries
- Cross-border payments lose 3-8% to FX and banking fees — devastating for artists in emerging markets
- Catalog valuation is opaque — no liquid market, no price discovery, no way for artists to monetize their back catalog without selling it outright
- Rights data is fragmented — who owns what share of which song is stored in incompatible databases across labels, publishers, PROs, and DSPs
- Small artists get nothing — micro-payments below $0.01 never reach the artist because transaction costs exceed the payment
Turn music IP into on-chain assets. Songs, albums, catalogs, and royalty splits become programmable, tradeable, and composable.
- Catalog NFTs with embedded royalty split logic
- Fractional ownership — fans and investors participate in music IP
- Rights registry — single source of truth for who owns what
Unlock capital that is trapped in the music industry.
- Royalty advances — borrow against verified future streaming revenue
- Catalog-backed lending — use tokenized catalogs as collateral
- Revenue swaps — trade future royalties for upfront capital
- Music index funds — diversified exposure to music catalogs as an asset class
Instant, transparent, global music payments.
- MUSD — music stablecoin for industry settlement (built with stablecoin-toolkit)
- Real-time royalty splits — when revenue arrives, splits execute atomically on-chain
- Cross-border settlement — same cost whether paying an artist in Lagos or Los Angeles
- Micro-payments — $0.001 payments are viable on L2 — every stream can pay every contributor
A shared protocol layer that different music businesses plug into.
- DSPs report streaming data via oracles
- Labels and distributors settle through MUSD
- Publishers and PROs sync rights data on-chain
- Fans engage through fractional ownership and direct artist support
- Third-party apps build on the Muzix SDK
| Layer | Component | Tech |
|---|---|---|
| Chain | Muzix L1 | OP Stack (EVM, Ethereum settlement) |
| Stablecoin | MUSD | Solidity, stablecoin-toolkit |
| Tokenization | Catalog tokens | ERC-721 + ERC-1155 + royalty extensions |
| Rights | Split registry | On-chain registry with multi-party claims |
| Oracle | Streaming revenue feeds | Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music data |
| Finance | Lending, advances, swaps | DeFi primitives adapted for music assets |
| SDK | Music app integration | TypeScript + viem |
| Identity | Artist/label identity | DID-based, portable across platforms |
- EVM compatible — existing Solidity tooling, wallets, and infrastructure work out of the box
- Low fees — L2 economics make micro-payments viable ($0.001 per txn)
- Ethereum security — settlement on Ethereum L1, not a standalone chain with weak security
- Superchain ecosystem — composable with Base, Optimism, and other OP Stack chains
- Battle-tested — Base processes billions in volume on the same stack
Phase 1 — Foundation
- OP Stack testnet deployment
- MUSD stablecoin contracts
- Basic royalty split contract
Phase 2 — Tokenization
- Catalog tokenization standard
- Fractional ownership contracts
- Rights registry
Phase 3 — Oracle + Finance
- Streaming revenue oracle (Spotify, Apple Music)
- Royalty advance contracts
- Catalog-backed lending
Phase 4 — Ecosystem
- TypeScript SDK
- First artist onboarding
- DSP integration pilot
- Mainnet launch
muzix/
├── contracts/ # Solidity — MUSD, splits, catalog tokens, lending
├── node/ # OP Stack node configuration
├── sdk/ # TypeScript SDK for music apps
├── oracle/ # Streaming revenue data feeds
├── registry/ # Rights and splits registry
├── docs/ # Architecture, specs, standards
└── deploy/ # Deployment scripts and configs
See CONTRIBUTING.md. We need:
- Solidity — stablecoin, tokenization, DeFi contracts
- Go — OP Stack node customization
- TypeScript — SDK, frontend, oracle integrations
- Music industry — domain expertise, rights management, artist onboarding
- Research — music finance economics, tokenization models
Muzix is the evolution of earlier music x blockchain experiments at kcolbchain, including Create Protocol. The thesis has been refined through years of working with musicians, labels, and music tech companies.
- kcolbchain: kcolbchain.com (est. 2015)
- Documentation: docs.kcolbchain.com
- GitHub: github.com/kcolbchain
- stablecoin-toolkit: docs.kcolbchain.com/stablecoin-toolkit/
MIT
Muzix is built by kcolbchain (est. 2015). Founded by Abhishek Krishna.