About

Audius is a decentralized music streaming platform that empowers artists to distribute, monetize, and stream audio content. It provides immutable and timestamped records for creative works, secured by a decentralized network. The platform offers premium features and exclusive content through its native platform token, $AUDIO. Audius is governed by $AUDIO ownership, with users having voting weight based on their stake in $AUDIO.

History

The mission of the Audius project is to give everyone the freedom to distribute, monetize, and stream any audio content. The Audius protocol brings artists, node operators, and fans together in an incentive-aligned way, allowing these actors to collectively provide a high-quality audio streaming experience guided by the foundational beliefs that:

1. Users should be compensated in proportion to how much value they create for the network
2. Artists should directly engage with and transact with their fans
3. Governance power should be earned by creating value in Audius, and shared consistently between user groups contributing to the protocol
4. Prices and earnings for participants should be consistent, predictable, and transparent
5. Access should be democratized; anyone can contribute to Audius if they follow the protocol rules, and all information is publicly accessible
6. Intermediaries should be removed when possible; when necessary, they should be algorithmic, transparent, and verifiably accurate