American rapper and actor Snoop Dogg has been revealed as one of many co-founders of a Web3-powered reside streaming app known as “Shiller” — including to yet one more Web3 partnership for the well-known hip-hop artist.
The app is described as a “reside broadcast platform” that goals to mix Web3 know-how with real-time live-streaming content material. The rap star has been named as a co-founder of the app together with know-how entrepreneur Sam Jones.
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It follows a wave of Web3 partnerships by Snoop Dogg within the final yr.
In April final yr, Snoop Dogg partnered with Sandbox metaverse to launch an NFT assortment known as “Snoop Avatars” and launched a hip-hop single titled “A Exhausting Working Man,” which was later accompanied by a 50,000-piece NFT drop.
The rap star additionally partnered with Yuga Labs — the crew behind Bored Ape Yacht Membership (BAYC) and CryptoPunks — to carry out on a metaverse-transformed stage at MTV’s Video Music Awards on Aug. 29.
Snoop Dogg additionally not too long ago partnered with crypto on line casino Roobet, the place he’ll function the agency’s “Chief Ganjaroo Officer,” according to a March 1 assertion from Roobet.
As for Shiller, blockchain will function closely within the platform, permitting content material creators to “token-gate” their streams and promote nonfungible tokens or different merchandise from e-commerce web sites.
These content material creators might be paid out in cryptocurrencies similar to Ether (ETH) or NFTs, which might be cashed out as fiat.
It was slated for a January launch however has been delayed till April, in accordance with Shiller’s newest update on March 2.
Creator financial system motion
The launch of Shiller seems to be a part of a broader creator financial system motion the place Web3 will seemingly play a task.
Whereas “Web1” enabled customers to write down HTML and skim content material, “Web2” enabled user-to-user interactions — which was dropped at the plenty by just a few social media monopolies, similar to Fb, Google and YouTube.
The “Web3” motion goals to eradicate these intermediaries by offering creators with full possession over their content material and the monetization that flows from it.
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Decentralized messaging platforms are starting to emerge too, with one named “Damus” trying to change into a “Twitter killer.”
Backed by Jack Dorsey, Damus went reside on the Apple App Retailer on Feb. 1. It’s constructed on a decentralized community that allows encrypted end-to-end personal messaging, known as “Nostr.”
The platform comes with built-in Bitcoin (BTC) funds on the Lightning community.
