Decentralized Tech for the Music Industry with Revelator’s Bruno Guez

This week, Bruno Guez, founder and CEO of Revelator, joins Tristra Newyear Yeager to discuss how Revelator’s integrated decentralized tools are changing the way artists, labels, and distributors manage their data and track their assets.

Dig into how Revelator’s blockchain-based Original Works platform totally reimagines how rights holders manage their IP. Discover how smart contracts are streamlining data flow, splits, percentages, and payment distribution. Find out how Bruno’s past experience running a record label inspired the creation of a music rights management platform that lets artists easily manage their rights, assign rights to collaborators, and collect royalties with a digital Artist Wallet. How could fractional ownership powered by the blockchain revolutionize the artist-fan relationship? Find out on this week's episode.

1:08 How did you get into music?

3:51 Career backstory

6:48 What is Revelator?

• About - Revelator

8:11 Early Bird tickets to the 2021 Music Tectonics Conference

10:19 How did you first get in to decentralized tech?

• Artist wallet

14:58 What is a smart contract?

• Beginner's guide to smart contracts

• Introduction to smart contracts

20:56 2021 Music Tectonics Conference Startup Competition sponsored by Bandlab

23:10 What are the biggest challenges facing decentralized tech?

• What would it really take to decentralize the music industry?

• Revelator Adds Microfinancing to Payment-Accelerating Wallet

27:50 Let's get sci-fi

• Revelator’s Decentralized Vision for Managing Creative IP

31:20 Tokenization

• 3 ways in which Artist Token’s will drive the new Music Economy

• Blockchain Aims To Be The Biggest Stage For Empowering Music Artists

• A Field Guide to Music’s Potential Crypto Boom

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The Music Tectonics podcast goes beneath the surface of the music industry to explore how technology is changing the way business gets done. Weekly episodes include interviews with music tech movers & shakers, deep dives into seismic shifts, and more.