Short description
Viberate is a crowdsourced live music ecosystem and a blockchain-based marketplace where we're matching musicians with event organizers. We're listing profiles of over 120 thousand musicians, from superstars to garage bands.
Abstract
This paper describes the crowdsourced booking and payment platform for the live musicindustry that will ultimately be scaled to all live creative engagements. Based on theEthereum platform, it utilizes smart contracts that solve decades-old problems that liveperformers have with getting demand, determining their value/price, negotiating terms,executing agreements and getting paid. Its main pillars are an innovative database ofmillions of artist profiles, ranked according to social media popularity; a tokenized incentiveprogram for musicians’ fans; a talent booking process; and a blockchain-based contractand payment system.