Hey, @satojandro thanks for your questions!
Can’t agree here, as DAOrecords started the official journey on NEAR in April 2022, as in that month the first funding request came in, mainly focused on DAOrecords.
Also, the DAO has started to experiment with the NEAR in the middle of 2021, using Mintbase mainly, but no funding requests were made to support this project!
Regarding the second part of your question… during our journey, we have noticed that web3 can be quite complicated for most musicians, therefore we go out to meet the needs, and DAOrecords started to build an additional tool called DAOrecords Console (FonoRoot will be integrated into that) which will allow artists to manage the release based on their needs, implement new changes in the next generation of minted NFTs, plan in advance their releases, and… much more!
We’d like to see DAOrecords technology used by the musicians daily, where most of our processes are automated, and available on multiple chains (long-term goal), but before we go there, we need to finish our tool, go through the audit and do the public beta (Q4 of 2022), however, we also need to establish ourselves within the musicians’ ecosystem way more (both web2 and web3), and show what services we’re offering (Metaverse event, music NFT release, artist interview, and artist promotion).
We believe that before we’ll reach the point where most of our services will be automated, we need to create stronger fundaments in the musicians’ ecosystem (others would call that “hype”), that’s why we are constantly doing what we have proposed above, but we have our challenges like current market conditions, low liquidity in NEAR NFTs (especially when it comes to music) or even people’s prejudice against new technology (which we can’t and won’t do anything with it).
As SoundSplash is going to finish in July, we’re coming up with new event series in collaboration with the BeatDAO (and DJ DAO as usual), where we’d like to present our technology to music producers/beatmakers.
Nice question @Klint thank you!
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Hope that my reply is sufficient for you guys and I’ve cleared your doubts!
With regards!
Paul