Audius

Audius is the better-known name here, because it is a music-focused blockchain project that aims at artists, listeners, and the wider streaming world. By our assessment, its strongest idea is giving creators more direct control over distribution, which is a clear reason people in music tech still notice it. The trade-off is also clear: anything built around a tokenized network has to persuade users to care about the crypto layer, not just the songs. In practice that makes Audius feel more like a platform with blockchain plumbing than a simple streaming app. It sits somewhere between a creator tool and a speculative token, and that split identity is both its appeal and its weak spot.