Project Highlights
Revelator Wallet
Revolutionizing Music Royalty Payments with Blockchain Technology
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As Head of Revelator Labs, I spearheaded the development of Revelator Wallet, the music industry's first self-custody mobile wallet designed specifically for creators. This groundbreaking project transforms how musical artists receive royalties globally, reducing payment cycles from the industry standard of quarterly settlements to real-time daily payments using blockchain technology.
Working closely with Revelator's founder and CEO Bruno Guez, I led cross-functional remote teams to build this flagship product that addresses one of the music industry's most persistent challenges: slow, delayed, and inaccurate royalty distribution. The Wallet leverages our proprietary Original Works protocol on the Ethereum blockchain to enable artists to track streaming revenues in real-time, set up automated split agreements with collaborators, and access micro-advances based on their streaming performance data.
The project has successfully completed multiple real-world pilots with major global publishers and independent artists, proving its capability to process 24-hour royalty settlements while maintaining the security and transparency that blockchain technology provides. This isn't just a technical achievement—it's a paradigm shift that gives creators unprecedented control over their financial destiny, enabling them to access their earnings whenever they need them rather than waiting months for traditional payment cycles.
Original Works
Building Open Infrastructure for Decentralized Music Rights Management
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As co-founder of Original Works alongside Revelator CEO Bruno Guez, I spearheaded the development of the world's first open-source protocol designed to unlock liquidity in the massive but historically stagnant music royalty settlement infrastructure. This groundbreaking blockchain protocol enables the tokenization of music royalties collected by verified distributors and publishers, creating a transparent, decentralized framework for music rights verification, registration, and automated royalty distribution.
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The protocol centers around Royalty Tokens (RT) - smart contracts that govern on-chain royalty payments from real-world media assets. Working with industry participants as Payment Oracles, we've created a trusted bridge between traditional music industry infrastructure and Web3 capabilities. The system integrates seamlessly with existing industry standards (DDEX.ERN and CWR) through our OWEN client, requiring minimal changes to current workflows while providing unprecedented transparency and efficiency.
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What sets Original Works apart is its privacy-preserving architecture using zero-knowledge proofs and Merkle trees, allowing rights holders to verify their earnings without exposing sensitive split percentages or pool amounts. The protocol serves multiple stakeholders: artists gain financial freedom and faster payments, distributors and publishers streamline operations while adding new revenue streams, and developers can build innovative music-centered applications using our APIs. Our vision extends beyond payments to enable on-chain royalty advances, micro-financing for creators, and a permissionless ecosystem where anyone can participate in the music economy.
iAlbums
Pioneering the Future of Music Discovery Through Semantic Web Technology
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iAlbums holds a special place in my heart as the project that fundamentally shaped my understanding of technology's transformative power and opened my eyes to the untapped potential at the intersection of digital content and intellectual property. As my first venture as co-founder and VP of Product (2011-2014), this project became the catalyst that would eventually lead me to discover blockchain technology and dedicate my career to revolutionizing how creators connect with their audiences.
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Long before large language models existed, we were pioneering semantic web technologies to create something unprecedented: an intelligent music discovery platform that transformed passive listening into active storytelling. Using RDFa markup and semantic content mapping, we aggregated thousands of music blogs, RSS feeds, and dbpedia (Wikipedia's relational database) to curate automated, contextual feeds around any piece of published popular music. The result was a free iPhone app that delivered "artist bios, album reviews, song lyrics, band photos, videos, interviews" in a "seamless flow" while supporting "over 600,000 artists, more than 1 million albums, and over 10.5 million songs" - creating what reviewers called "a total music experience" that earned a 9/10 rating.
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More than just an app, iAlbums represented my first deep dive into the evolving relationship between physical and digital content consumption. We weren't just building a music player; we were crafting a portal that allowed each listener to embark on the story behind the music, discovering influences, collaborations, and inspiration paths that would lead them to artists they never would have encountered through traditional discovery methods. Though the project was ultimately sold and sunsetted in 2015, the insights I gained about semantic content organization, user experience design, and the value of contextual digital experiences became the foundation for everything that followed - including my discovery of blockchain technology just two years later and my continued pursuit of building a better, more connected digital future for creators and fans alike.
