Celo Camp Batch 9: Blaqk Stereo

Founders Celo Camp
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Blaqk Stereo [Batch 9]

Africa’s first Decentralised Music Distribution platform offering royalty payment solutions in Stablecoin

Short description

Blaqk Stereo is a decentralized music distribution & streaming company that enables musicians earn royalties in stablecoin through Minipay.

Team

  • Hawwal O.: founder - Blaqk Stereo music, an all-round creative and a Guinness world record holder. He is a frontend dev. crypto enthusiast and has been actively building in web3 for half a decade across networks. He’s committed to his one goal of providing sustainable life changing solutions through the use of web3 based technologies.

  • Ololade is a UI/UX designer and she has worked on several projects one of which is Tappi which is platform that digitizes SMEs here in Africa. She’s the Ui designer of the Blaqk Stereo product.

  • Oghenero O has three years of experience as a backend engineer.

Partners

  • Victor AD is a multitalented award winning Afro-beat artist and entrepreneur.

  • Don Jazzy is Founder of Mavin music records and music industry giant who has produced the likes of Rema, Wanda coal, Ruger, and so many more world renowned Afro-beats stars.

Long Description

Blaqk Stereo is a decentralized distribution mobile app that enables musicians earn royalties in stablecoin (cUSD) through Minipay :dollar:

Blaqk Stereo is a music mobile app pioneering Africa’s first Music Decentralised Distribution platform, seamlessly merging Web2 convenience with blockchain technology to offer stablecoin royalty payments and instant tokenized earnings for music artists, while providing a rewarding experience for all users.
Mission:
Blaqk Stereo’s mission is to facilitate earning solutions and financial inclusiveness for music artists while creating a rewarding experience for subscribers.

Core values:

  1. Financial inclusiveness
  2. Seamless transaction
  3. Decentralisation
  4. Transparency
  5. Sustainability

Tech Type:

Consumer technology

Problem statement:

A significant amount of music artists in Africa do not retrieve royalties because they don’t have access to payment platforms used by music distributions.

Solution Statement:

Blaqk Stereo addresses royalty payment delays, financial barriers, regional restrictions,
and intermediary reliance with our De-distribution, providing Stablecoin payment
solutions to music artists.

Go-To Market Strategy

  1. Launch of Music Campaigns: We intend launching Competitions for promising music stars e.g The Voice, Next music star, Got Talent etc. which would drive alot of traffic to our platform.

  2. Endorsement from Music Renowned Music Stars: Majority of Upcoming music talents look to established artists for mentorship, and through our existing connections, we will be getting the endorsement of established musicians and producers through our network of strategic partnerships and friendships.

Technical Implementation (optional)

Tech Stack:
We are using "Celo Composer for the entire frontend development of the Blaqk Stereo product and Nod.js for the backend.
here is a link to out Github frontend page:
Blaqk Stereo Frontend
Demo video

Next Steps (optional)

We will continue the development of our product which we intend launching in October of 2024.

Asks (optional)

I would like to ask the community, can the any of the alumni from Celo Camp request for funding from governance for projects or are there any other funding option available to founders and projects from Celo Camp whether from VC’s within the community or grants from the ecosystem?

Slide Deck

video presentation:
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Blaqk Stereo x MiniPay

Founders Story:

Link to deck:
Blaqk Stereo x MiniPay

Connect & contact:

cc @Alon @Matt_CeloCamp

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