Building the Future of Music on Hive
Together, we can make Hive a magnet for musicians worldwide by giving them the recognition they deserve. Thanks for taking the time to read this proposal and know our plans.
Never heard of cXc? Here's our OG intro post on Peakd
If this is your first time hearing from me, allow me to introduce myself.
Hi, my name is Douglas.
I love empowering creators, and as a musician who codes, I build tools to help musicians.
I built a map of music cXc.world, with localized Top Charts, and I want to bring it BACK to Hive, better than ever. I'm asking for your support to make it happen.
Before moving ahead, let's catch up. After launching our music map on Steem in 2018, and Hive in 2020, cXc.world removed our Hive integration in 2021 to focus on WAX. We built NFT standards, staking contracts, and added NFTs to cXc.world. Now, we're initiating our long-planned return to Hive, and asking for Hive funds to make it epic.
Proposal Summary
Our goal is to discover, recognize, and share the best music from everywhere on Hive, every single day. We will create engaging, impactful on- and off-chain music charts on Hive, attracting new Hive users from WAX and the wider music community. We believe this will onboard musicians. We'll encourage new users by auto-upvoting musical posts, using over half the budget to lock HP.
New to the project? cXc in 15 seconds
cXc has been in limbo for some time, writing smart contracts to prepare to launch Beta, shown in the demo, while maintaining the limited Alpha version of the site.
Now, cXc is launching daily top-charts to measure the top-upvoted music.
cXc Beta uses geotemporal curation, a concept we pioneered, and I wrote about in the Web 4 Manifesto.
With DHF funding, we can recognize musicians with status, every day.
We will release the tech open-source, inviting others to build their own take. We believe this innovation has the potential attract millions of new Hive users in the next 5 years.
How we got here
cXc launched on Steem and transitioned to Hive, creating a map of music where fans and artists can post their favorite songs to Hive with a few clicks. We started to launch top-charts but didn’t complete the feature due to incomplete app development. Now, with the completion of the Ups contract, we are ready to relaunch cXc.world on Hive.
Why Fund cXc
This is a short-term ask with long-term benefits.
We believe we can generate ten times (or more) economic value for Hive than the funding required to build the app. Our code will be open-source, allowing others to replicate the chart concept for different media types and content. This project will bring non-chainers and non-Hivers onto Hive, increasing the likelihood they join and continue to use the platform.
We want to make this a beneficial relationship for all involved. More than half of the funds will go to curating Music on Hive.
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Problems
Hive is great, and could improve. Here's some barriers I see to greater adoption + use.
- Low financial benefit for brand new accounts after the #introduceyourself post.
- High-effort to share a musical post, relatively limited exposure.
- Low awareness of Hive in wider music industry + blockchain space.
Solutions
We want to tap into status + social recognition. We believe that by recognizing artists struggling to get exposure, we'll offer enough benefit for them to share the post outside of Hive, attracting creative people to Hive.
This is a proposal to benefit all of Hive including builders, and we're committed to make everything we build open source. For artists, we pledge to lock over 50% of funds to curate music as long as Hive is producing blocks.
With funds, we'll build all listed here, and if we're funded the whole time, some strech goals.
The Plan
- Bring Back One-Click cXc->Hive Posting: Bring back cXc.world's straight-to-Hive posting feature for artists and fans, with greater focus on helping artists. This feature allows simple sharing of a music post into a formatted blog post, helping bloggers show off the music they love and earn curation rewards, and musicians to get free exposure. (Solves problem #2)
- Curate music posts: We'll use most funds for Hive power to upvote all music posts shared from cXc.world on Hive, and all tags like #openmic #music etc. (Solves problem #1)
- Launch Daily Top Music Charts as Posts: This is the plan! We start posting daily top music charts on Hive, including local charts for the most active nations. You'll get to find great new artists, and the artists will compete for a spot in the coveted list of top creators. You can repost your favorite music easily and earn the curation rewards (all parties benefit, problem #3).
- Promotion campaign + epic video: We're working with a professional videographer to highlight the new Hive integrations + top charts. We'll take the time to detail our journey, and share our announcements far and wide including paid promo on Peakd. (Problem #3)
Charts on cXc.world
Charts on Hive
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Stretch Goals
- Bridge cXc Tokens to Hive: Bring our established token from WAX onto Hive.
- Launch Cross-chain Economic Benefits for HIVE Posts: We'll use our bridged tokens to give extra benefit to Hive musicians by rewarding engagement metrics on Hive.
Use of Funds
We're asking for $480 a day for 60 days
Here's the breakdown
- 250 HBD / day - Directly spent on Hive for Hive Power to auto-upvote hashtags, encouraging musicians to keep posting. We won't move these funds (ever) once staked to HP.
- 180 HBD / Day - One full time engineer (my github) and two part time engineers to build open source code.
- 50 HBD / Day - Media magic man Alejandro Lozada (Hombre Solar) and promotion budget
Total Budgets
15,000 HBD - HP to @currentxchange to upvote music posts
10,800 HBD - Dev + Open-source code
3,000 HBD - Promotion + professional announcement video
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Trust
We have a proven track record of exceeding expectations. Here is our completed grant from the WAX team, where we developed the core technology underlying our app, including Media NFT standards, NFT staking, and our Upvote smart contracts. Now, with this pivot to Hive we'll be able to fulfill our original vision on Hive.
Last words
We love music, we love Hive, we hope you feel the same.
Thank you for your support.
Musically yours,
Douglas Butner aka Gudasol + cXc Team
P.S. Meet me in the comments with any questions.
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