How is Decent different?We believe friendly UX tooling will ignite mainstream adoption of crypto rails, enabling creators and developers to autonomously monetize their work. Namely that the financial condition for artists has remained restricted and unchanged over the years despite exponential growth in each artist’s fanbase. What inspired the start of Decent?Our cofounder Xander Carlson is a full-time artist (signed to Sony’s Palm Tree Records) and his journey through the music industry from independent artist to label-signed and touring with Kygo and the Palm Tree Crew.Our vision was also informed by my time in investment banking where I worked M&A for music industry companies and saw from the financial/analytical side of the market. Tell us about the product or service that Decent offers.Decent has a no-code application and SDK that makes it easy for anyone to build innovative web3 applications and NFT releases. Delphi Digital, Sapphire Ventures, Rico Mallozzi & a handful of others.

Who were your investors and how much did you raise?We raised a $3.5M Seed Round led by Archetype, Y Combinator (YC W22), Circle Ventures, Palm Tree Crypto, Road Capital, Stateless VC, AngelDAO, Coinlist, OrangeDAO, Soma Capital, and MAGIC Fund with participation from Ilya Fushman, Kleiner Perkins, Cooper Turley, Coop Records, Ian Lapham, Uniswap, Eleni Steinman, Loop Crypto, Nick Pappageorge, prev. Founded by a former banker and current artist, the platform has been conceived to allow artists to exercise rights to ownership and copyright effortlessly while also democratizing monetization and fan engagement, giving musicians the flexibility to focus on creating without worrying about the business end.ĪlleyWatch caught up with Decent Co-CEO Charlie Durbin to learn more about the business, the company’s strategic plans, recent round of funding, and much, much more… The platform is open-source and offers integrations to streamline the pre and post-mint process including AI generation of NFT images using DALL-E, dynamic token pricing, rentable tokens, treasury-backed tokes, and staking. Creator HQ is the company’s flagship product that allows both creators and developers to create NFTS and smart contracts on any EMV-compatible chain. Decent is a no-code infrastructure platform and SDK that offers the music industry and artists to build varied web3 applications with little effort and specialized knowledge. Going on-chain not only allows innovative financing, ownership, and licensing models but also offers the opportunity for artists to connect with their fan communities in novel ways. One of the most compelling aspects of blockchain and NFTs usage for the music industry is the embedded provenance options.

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