If we're going to change the way music is streamed, discovered, and paid for, we're going to need a lot more ideas being tested out in the wild. To encourage this, we want to evenly share rewards with the builders of these ideas In the last

We had such a fantastic evening at The Vinyl Lounge in Nashville. So many great performers and friends from all over the world. Thanks to the more than 500 people who attended the event and an extra special thanks to all the artists who put on an amazing show: The

A new way to buy and sell tickets across the web using open standards and internet identities As you may have heard, Wavlake is throwing its first concert in Nashville in July. We thought this would be a good opportunity to build and test out a new kind of ticketing

We're really excited to announce our first concert event happening in Nashville on Thursday, July 25th at The Vinyl Lounge! This coincides with the Bitcoin 2024 conference and is brought to you in collaboration with Tunestr, who will be live streaming the event. Think of it as a

Starting today, Wavlake artists will be able to use their own Lightning Address to receive earnings from fans. By logging into Studio and setting this preference, artists can now automatically receive earnings to any personal Lightning account that uses a Lightning Address for receiving payments. For anyone who is not

We're excited to announce the release today of custom, embeddable Wavlake charts. This new extension of our portable player allows anyone to slice and dice Wavlake stats to create unique views into our music library. Below is an example we built using this tool – the top 10 Hip-Hop/

There was a brief period of time, mainly during the hangover stage of rampant file sharing via indie FTP sites, Napster, and torrents, that many of us realized that freely downloading the creative works of others at no expense to ourselves might be unfair. There were some logical arguments against

One of the biggest challenges in the first year of Wavlake has been describing to people what the heck Wavlake is. It's a music streaming site. It's a way for artists to distribute digital music. It's a way for artists to earn bitcoin for

It's been an incredible year for us here at Wavlake and we wanted to take a moment to look back and see how far we've come since launch. We also wanted to send a special thanks to all the great artists and fans who have been

The Wavlake Top 40 was always intended to be just one, introductory way to recommend new music to people. It seemed logical — just count how many sats each track earned within a certain period of time and show the results. When we first launched, this seemed like a good enough

How open protocols will flip the way we count ears and eyeballs Taylor Swift's "Cruel Summer" has been on heavy rotation this summer on my local pop radio station. I really don't mind hearing it every hour – it's a great song. It

Music has been missing on podcasts for a long time. Sure, it's common to hear a few seconds' worth at a time. But never entire songs. The reason for this boils down to the way rights to most recorded music are constructed today: that is, a podcaster

We think Nostr presents a great opportunity to build a new way to interact with music on the internet, which is why we decided to build Wavman. Wavman is a proof-of-concept/prototype that serves two main purposes. First, to explore the potential for interactive media on Nostr. Second, to help