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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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NFT music marketplace Royal raises $55M in Series A round

Main investors include VC giant Andreessen Horowitz, in addition to musical artists The Chainsmokers, Nas, and Disclosure.

On-chain music platform Royal has announced a Series A funding round led by venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz.

Royal allows fans to buy music rights via nonfungible tokens (NFTs). Its co-founders, entrepreneur JD Ross and DJ Justin Blau who goes by the stage name 3LAU, announced on Nov. 23 they had closed a $55 million Series A funding, following a $16 million seed round in August.

Prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, led the round. Kathryn Huan, General Partner at a16z tweeted about the firm’s investment in Royal’s possibility of transforming the music industry.

Additional investment came from CAA and NEA’s Connect Ventures, Crush Music, Coinbase Ventures, Founders Fund and Paradigm. Celebrities and global artists such as The Chainsmokers, Nas, Logic, Kygo, Stefflon Don, Joyner Lucas, and Disclosure backed the project as well. Royal will use the funds to scale their team and invest in the growth of artists who sign up for the platform.

CEO Justin “3LAU” Blau shared Royal’s main goal with Cointelegraph:

“Allow fans to co-own music with their favorite artists by leveraging blockchain technology to grant music rights, and aligning incentives between fans and artists. We’re starting off with a curated group of artists for our initial sales, but we plan on opening up the platform to more artists in the future.”

Last month, Blau gave away 50% of the streaming rights to his song “Worst Case” to 333 fans. Those fans get a cut of the royalties via NFTs whenever the song is streamed on Spotify, Apple Music, or another streaming service. The song reached an implied value of over $6 million with fans holding half of the value, and the tokens traded more tover $600,000 in secondary market volume in only the first two weeks, according to Blau.

Related: Celebrities are embracing NFTs in a big way

When asked how NFTs can solve the current issues within the music industry, Blau said:

“Artists’ livelihood is based on how much their fans support their music, but listeners aren’t compensated at all for that interaction. Royal leverages the NFT standards to help artists get more independence and help them capture more of the emotional value that music inherently creates.”

Royal wants to challenge the value of music ownership, which according to Blau, is “vastly misrepresented and undervalued today.” Historically, ownership of music royalties, streaming included, has been exclusively available to labels, hedge funds and private equity firms as a portfolio asset, he explained.

This could all change, however, as more and more musicians embrace the Web3 ecosystem and simultaneously empower their fanbase while funding their careers. Royal’s upcoming sale will go live within the coming weeks.

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