Solana is coming to Art Basel to celebrate the diversity of creativity in the Solana ecosystem next month from December 6th to December 10th!
To get you up to speed about the creator tooling, ecosystem, and possibilities on Solana, Pedro Miranda u/voteforpedrito, Business Development: Creator Economy at Solana Foundation, and Banana u/0xbanana_, Ecosystem Engineer at Solana Foundation, are joining us here today for an AMA! Whether you are new and want to know about creator tools in web3, want to code your own creator tools, or learn where to get started in the Solana creator ecosystem, this AMA is for you.
They are running an AMA today November 29th and will be stopping in at 10am PST for one hour to answer questions! Please post your questions below.
Solana Creator Ecosystem AMA today at 10am PST - drop your questions below now!
Learn more about the Artists in Residence at Art Basel: https://solana.com/art-basel
Learn more about possibilities for creators on Solana: https://solana.com/solutions/artists-creators
Personally believe we need to continue to embrace and experiment with use cases that are uniquely enabled by blockchain and Solana.
Some themes we are excited about are :
Authenticity:Authenticity of digital content is becoming increasingly hard to guarantee. Generative AI models make it trivial to remix content or more nefariously alter / co-opt it.Fundamental authenticity guarantees - if an asset is issued by a creator’s wallet, there’s an unimpeachable cryptographic authenticity. You know that is the creation of the wallet owner.Instant Settlement:
Traditional payment solutions are extractive, geo-restricted, and slow.We can encourage artists to leverage Solana for payments with low costs and near-instant settlement. I.e. Shopify Solana Pay & Foster Marketplace for physical goods.
ComposabilityIn Web2, identity and content are currently siloed to platforms. It’s hard for users, even platforms, to allow user-activity to be rewarded outside of a given application. User content on Solana (i.e. Drip or Magic Eden) facilitates partnerships between creative platforms and artists that were previously too operationally intensive. I.e. Open Solana social graphs.
CurationDiscovery in Web2 is currently powered by advertising-optimised algorithms, neglecting user wants. New models, powered by incentives, offer a more fair and trusted discovery through communities and individuals users respect. I.e. Collector.shAvenues that encourage this, public goods funding, hackathons, and community collaborations are essential to continue to make the Solana blockchain a welcoming home for Web2 & Web3 creators.