
What is Audius? The Decentralized Music Sharing and Streaming Service
It’s like Spotify or SoundCloud, but on the blockchain: Audius is a crypto-powered music streaming app that’s giving power back to artists.

It’s like Spotify or SoundCloud, but on the blockchain: Audius is a crypto-powered music streaming app that’s giving power back to artists.
Dapps
Audius is a San Francisco-based startup offering a decentralized blockchain-powered digital streaming network, with the aim of connecting artists directly to fans. Following its mainnet launch in 2020, the service has reached more than 6 million unique users. The platform also aims to hand control over music distribution and monetization back to the artists, addressing long-standing issues over how they're compensated on other music streaming platforms. Unlike other music streaming services l...
Business
The cryptocurrency-driven music service Audius aims to offer a hybrid of streaming giant Spotify and sharing platform Soundcloud, and its star has risen in recent months via integration with TikTok and new NFT features. Now popular musicians including Katy Perry, Nas, and others have officially come onboard via a new investment round. Today, Audius—which claims to have six million monthly active users—announced a star-studded $5 million round headlined by a number of prominent musicians, with S...
The Projects
Music streaming services have over 400 million subscribers worldwide between them, and raked in over $13 billion in revenue last year. But critics of the industry claim that artists are being unfairly compensated for their work, with musicians and politicians alike claiming that performers and songwriters are “losing out.” That’s where Audius comes in. It’s a crypto-powered music sharing and streaming protocol that aims to give artists more power over how their music is monetized and enable them...
Markets
The price of AUDIO, the native token of decentralized music streaming service Audius, has exploded by over 90% on the heels of the platform’s integration into social media giant TikTok. At the time of writing, AUDIO was trading at around $3.32, according to crypto metrics platform Nomics. Notably, the token’s current price is roughly 30% away from its all-time high of $4.95, recorded on March 27. The surge occurred after Audius announced a partnership with TikTok yesterday, giving its artists ex...