Unlock the power of Web3-native publishing
Whether you’re creating comics, movies, music, ebooks, or metaverse assets, Darkblock lets you harness Web3 technology to deliver exclusive, unlockable content to your fans, forge stronger ties with your community, and get paid via a variety of new, emerging business models.
Start adding unlockable content to your NFTs with our free, no-code app
Unlock the power of Web3-native publishing
Whether you’re creating comics, movies, music, ebooks, or metaverse assets, Darkblock lets you harness Web3 technology to deliver exclusive, unlockable content to your fans, forge stronger ties with your community, and get paid via a variety of new, emerging business models.
Start adding unlockable content to your NFTs with our free, no-code app
Join these pioneers in exploring the future of decentralized content
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What is Darkblock?
What is Darkblock?
Watch this video and learn why Darkblock is building a decentralized content protocol and web3 tools for the new creator economy
Explore use cases
Explore use cases
Comics & Books
Sell your comic books, graphic novels, books, and audiobooks by locking them inside your NFTs and providing exclusive access and true ownership to your fans without needing to worry about centralized token-gating platforms. Simply upload your content and Darkblock does the rest.
Content Creation
Patreon, Udemy, OnlyFans, Substack, YouTube… With Darkblock, you can use NFTs to distribute digital content without Web2 middelmen, engage with your community on your own terms, and explore new ways of getting paid, including renting access to content or exploring how to use Subscription NFTs to provide fans with ongoing subscriber-only content, whether it’s NSFW, exclusive podcast episodes, or video lectures.
Movies
Filmmakers are experimenting with NFTs to fund production, but are forced to return to Web2 tools to distribute the finished film (i.e., token gating with centralized file storage and centralized web portals). With Darkblock, you can use NFTs to not only crowdfund, but to deliver the finished product and various extras to your holders in a decentralized way that provides true ownership.
PFP Projects
PFP project creators can use Darkblock to upgrade their entire collection by immutably attaching unlockable content to the NFTs. Reward holders with videos, music, 3D metaverse and gaming assets, invites to secret chat rooms, etc. You could also use trait-targeting to reward certain holders with more valuable content. Your imagination is the only limit to what’s possible.
Music
Turn your Music NFT into a container for an entire unlockable album or, if you prefer your music to be freely listenable, then use Darkblock to reward your super fans with exclusive access to music videos, recordings of live shows, B-side tracks, lyric sheets, concept art, etc., all stored as decentralized unlocklable content that will forever be available to whoever owns your NFTs.
Ticketing
Tickets no longer need to be just mementoes for your scrapbook. They can be tokenized containers for content, like the audio recording of the show the ticket was for. With Darkblock, musicians, concert promoters, and event organizers can deliver real value to their ticket holders, and explore new monetization and fan-engagement strategies.
Swag Bags
Hosting an event and want to send out valuable digital assets as party favors? Let people mint an NFT or POAP that acts as a digital swag bag. Load it with whatever kind of unlockable content you want: directions to an exclusive event, links to claim real-life merch, music, videos, you name it.
Metaverse & Gaming
Use Darkblock to sell metaverse and gaming assets without worrying about them being right-click-saved. And if you’re creating and selling assets for Unity-based applications, Darkblock’s Unity plug-in allows your customers to automatically upload their NFTs’ unlockable assets to the metaverse or game at runtime.
Monetize your NFTs
Monetize your NFTs
New, groundbreaking technology always creates opportunities for new business models—even if those opportunities aren’t immediately apparent.
By rethinking how independent creators sell and distribute their content from the ground up and shedding Web2 ways of providing exclusive access (e.g., locking content in walled gardens and gating access with a password or token), Darkblock empowers creators to explore new Web3-native business models.
Attach unlockable content to your NFTs
Monetize access to that unlockable content
Split the revenue the unlockable content generates with NFT owners
How it works
How it works
Upgrade your NFTs
Use Darkblock to upload multimedia content and other digital assets you want attached to your new or pre-existing NFTs
The magic happens
Behind the scenes, the Darkblock Protocol encrypts the content, permanently stores it on Arweave, and immutably attaches it to your chosen NFTs
Your fans access the content
With the content attached, only NFT owners can unlock and consume it via Darkblock’s dApp or on an increasing number of NFT platforms and marketplaces that have integrated the protocol
Explore new Web3-native business models
New ways to deliver your content = new ways to monetize your content. Darkblock helps you get paid in a new ways and introduces co-creation and revenue-sharing opportunities with your communities.
The future of content is here…
and it’s decentralized
The future of content is here…
and it’s decentralized
For creators
Decentralized content means controlling the distribution and monetization of their content without relying on centralized platforms, while decentralized storage means their content is immutable.
For consumers
Decentralized content means forever-access without worrying about broken Dropbox links, unpinned IPFS content, or 404 messages on token-gated websites— even 50 years from now.
Key features
Key features
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