Welcome to M3 Shorts where every Tuesday I cover Web3 & AI in the Music Creator Economy

Let’s get right at it. Here is what’s up this past week 🕺🏻

NFTS 🎵

• Ethereum launches Ethscriptions for storing NFTs On-chain + cheap storage .

• Opensea adds support for Zora Creators

• Betoko’s hit “Raining Again” remixed by Eli & Fur into a Music NFT

• Binance partners to create NFT for fans of The Weeknd

• Maxity.io partners launches NFT with Bootsy Collins

• New NFT drop for Biggie Smalls

• Gala Music launches NFT with PLS&TY

• Sound.xyz raises $20 Million by Snoop Dogg and a16z

• Google allows sales of NFTs on Google Play

• WME signs Seedphrase

• NFT Sneaker collection by PUMA & Roc Nation

• CoolJapan is a launching an event and NFTs with Japan’s top girl-bands

Metaverse & Gaming 👾

• SEGA announces its Web3 IP strategy

• AmazeVR launches music concerts app – Zara Larsson included

• New Metaverse and NFT launch for China’s “The Voice” Sing!China

• Roblox launches immersive experience with Imagine Dragons

• Competition to make music in metaverse by The Sandbox x Warner Music 

• EthereumTowers Final Mint 

• Roblox to join Meta’s Quest VR

• Karta, Metaverse studio raises $1.1M

• Gala Music Teams Up with Catbird Music Festival

Web3 Misc

• Chen Ma launches NFT with Mantle, to for early network adopters

AI 🤖

• Refik Anadol launches “Resonance” to bring co creation artists & musicians with AI

• Resemble AI Raises $8M to protect artists from deepfake voices

• US Congress called to regulate AI by Universal Music Group

• Show HN launches free tool for AI-based music demixing

• Infinite Canvas, AI-powered Discord game raises $6M

• MATRIX Releases Beta “Genesis", Generative AI to create metaverses for Both Spoken Words and Text

• Brazilian car ad resurrects of Famous Brazilian singer with AI

• New AI Platform for Creative Collaboration “FYI” by will.i.am

• DFINITY Foundation launches $5 million decentralized artificial intelligence (DeAI) on ICP including music

   

Monthly Take by Ash Fishman

Here is where write on interesting things I see up and coming once a month in the MCE.

There is no Take this week. Stay tuned!

New music that slaps on the M3 Playlist🤟:

The M3 Community Playlist is an open-sourced playlist that is curated by the M3 community, who add their newly favorite discovered artists or songs for everyone to hear.

Here are this weeks hits 🤟

• What Am I Missing? - The Band Camino

• LIVIN’ LAUGHIN’ LOVIN - Bilmuri, Hastings

• charlie! - Chesle

• In my Way - Julia Wolf

• JOBBO - WSTR

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