Tokenized Royalties

Royal’s smart contracts will automatically collect and distribute royalty payments, handling everything from conversions between fiat and on-chain tokens to paying out shares of royalty revenues to LDA holders. Royal collects a small share of royalties as a platform management fee.

The project is currently securing partnerships with a number of undisclosed high-profile artists, and plans to let fans begin backing music productions in October. After building and validating a product around music ownership, the team plans to expand their approach to other royalty-generating assets––both digital (TV licensing, YouTube content cr... See more

By framing LDAs dually as an economic investment and as a piece of the fan community, LDAs more fully capture the intangible, social value of art.

Royal is a new platform that enables artists to crowd-fund creative projects using smart contracts that pay backers (holders of tokens called limited digital assets) with a share of the project’s earnings from royalties.