Audius, the ‘Decentralized Spotify,’ Is Moving Part of Its Service to Solana Blockchain
Decentralized music app Audius announced Thursday that it will migrate its content management system over to Solana’s high-speed blockchain from an Ethereum sidechain operated by the POA Network that runs on a set of trusted validators. In an announcement shared with CoinDesk in advance, the Audius team wrote: "Given our need to utilize a high-performance blockchain today, Solana's growing set of 182 validators (as of this writing) combined with a battle-tested architecture gives our community the confidence that Audius's catalog can scale at ease, a crucial component of our path to mainstream adoption.".
Audius CEO Roneil Rumburg declined to disclose the exact arrangement with Solana, stating that it was primarily a technical consideration, but he wrote to CoinDesk in an email, “There’s an agreement between the two teams that involves technical support, deliverables for support, and incentives. … Solana will help Audius have the best user experience possible.”.
