D.A.M.N.

Decentralized Autonomous Music Network

Greater Than The Sum

A D.A.M.N. stands for "Decentralized Autonomous Music Network". All the pieces of web3 music tools and tech that, when combined, create a network of truly open culture.

Like "DAO" (decentralized autonomous organization), it's a made-up acronym designed to sound smart and get the point across. The difference? This one actually works.

Building A DAMN

Building a DAMN means creating tools that let artists exist independently and grow collaboratively. Imagination-expanding technology, open for everyone.

The Contract Wizard makes creating your own record label as easy as clicking a button. The Wizard's Library grows with every artist who joins. The Universal Music Player lets you search any wallet on Ethereum or file on Arweave. Serverless Playlists enable true decentralized curation. The Audio Uploader tags everything properly from day one.

Each tool feeds the others. The Metadata Maker creates the thicc metadata that makes everything else possible - and the importance of thicc metadata truly cannot be overstated.

Strong and Open

Serverless Playlists work across any platform, can't be censored, and belong entirely to their creators. No servers required, no company middleman, no subscriptions that suddenly disappear.

This isn't just about music - it's about building experiences that are genuinely permanent and open. Upload once, use everywhere, forever.

Curation Whether You Like It Or Not

Here's the thing about closed platforms: they create artificial scarcity around who gets to play in the sandbox. If you're not one of the "approved" platforms, you're locked out.

The DAMN was built for everyone else.

Most music metadata lives on centralized servers that vanish when companies run out of funding. Files hosted on IPFS disappear when the hosting bills stop getting paid. This isn't decentralization, it's just Web 2.0 with extra steps.

The solution is obvious: proper tagging standards that actually work. We've built them, proven them, and shown exactly why metadata needs to be structured this way for real discovery and curation to happen. The standards exist. They're battle-tested. Anyone taking an honest look can see they work.

So instead of waiting for the industry to catch up, we're tagging the music we love ourselves. We can wrap existing content in better metadata and create the listening experience everyone actually wants, whether the original platforms cooperate or not.

That's what "whether you like it or not" means, the right way to do things will spread. We preserve provenance while upgrading everything with richer, more functional metadata. The standards are here, the tools work, and the rising tide lifts all boats, even the ones that tried to keep us out of the harbor.