muzix

Layer 0 for music — OP Stack L1 for music finance, catalog tokenization, royalty payments, and global settlement.

What is Muzix?

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.

The Problem

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

What Muzix Enables

1. Tokenize

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

2. Finance

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

3. Settle

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

4. Connect

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

Technical Architecture

Why OP Stack?

• 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

Roadmap

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

Repository Structure

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