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Research Outline & Arguments — (On-chain Music Ecosystems: Navigating the Path Ahead)

Research Outline & Arguments — (On-chain Music Ecosystems: Navigating the Path Ahead) / Draft Duplicate

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1. Research Focus

<aside> 💡 How to contribute now:

• Sign up to our synthesis sprint. Cells that are not shaded in blue need attention.
• Listen back to interviews you’ve signed up for.
• Save notes, suggested themes and notable quotes in its research repo.
• Review and leave constructive feedback / comments on our first draft.
• Please review theb. Outline: and leave feedback on it’s direction
• Write your top of mind takeaways from the research on our figjam.
• Vote on a meeting time.

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Homework:

1. re-watch the interviews you signed up to watch and submit take-away comments on the research repo.
2. provide feedback on the b. Outline: and first draft.
3. compose your 1-2 sentence through-line notes to have on-hand during our forum

Asyncrhonous Action!

1. Curate your top of mind takeaways from your research repo and comment on the interview subjects that interested you the most.
2. Please vote on a meeting time to join our open-forum, where we will discuss, and even debate, points of view from our research inquiry.

Figma:

https://www.figma.com/embed?embed_host=notion&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.figma.com%2Ffile%2FQyKNzAOmN59RRxqHSn94TE%2FW%26M-DAO%3A-Alternative-Financing-Research%3Fnode-id%3D0%3A1%26t%3DxH3i3c5ZYaf0fViM-1

**Goal**:

• We will reach a rough consensus on what themes we are aligned with in our research literature, and we will continue to draft it.

"From the throughlines work, we'll revisit those Research Questions in that hackmd and start the writing process. I think this shouldn't be another 90k word article, but something shorter and with strong take aways for that core group of artists and their teams wanting to get into Web3"

—Maarten Walraven (@[email protected])

Watch:

W&M DAO - Figjam Tutorial.mov

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a. tl;dr

Open research into alternate web3 financing optionality will attempt to develop a working framework for “sustainable” music ecosystems, an ecosystem map, potential grants board and contract builder (cc. Harrison Lee) to be published by W&M in the first quarter of 2023.

b. Goal

to provide a resource for artists and artist teams on how to resource their projects via Web3, and what legal and financial considerations there are when approaching funding through this avenue. Ideally, we’d be learning so we are able to extract existing best practices (incl. important considerations) and tools/platforms.

We’re focusing on these research questions:

• What opportunities exist to expand financing optionality in Web3?
• What are expectations for dilutive vs. non-dilutive models of financing?
• How to get from 0 → 1 (profitability)
• What does the future of funding artists in Web3 look like?