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 unlockable 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.

Ed Young

Founder of NFT.hiphop and co-founder of The Source Magazine

“As someone deeply rooted in the music industry, Darkblock’s technology is an absolute game-changer. People have been suspect of NFTs because the technology has lacked any demonstrable way to protect their IP. Everything has been right-click-savable and artists are giving their music away for free. But Darkblock provides the solution. It provides a way to deliver all types of content as NFTs, reap the obvious benefits of forming closer relationships with fans and customers, while still safeguarding their IP. I believe Darkblock provides a path for Hip Hop, and the entire music industry, to embrace and adopt web3.”

dReader

An on-chain platform for publishing, trading, collecting, and reading digital comics

“Piracy isn’t a price issue, it’s a service issue.” – Gabe Newell, CEO of Steam

With dReader we will provide a service superior to piracy. Not just an e-reader app, but a redefined digital comic experience. Engage with creators, unwrap new comics, trade assets and grow your portfolio, collect autographs, and earn unique rewards. This answers the question we’re asked the most: “Why would I buy a comic on your platform if I can just read it for free on the web?”

This is something we’re solving with our key partner Darkblock, by providing users the true ownership over assets and thus enabling the web3 comic collecting experience!

GЯIFF

Creator of The Endling Saga

“For years before I heard of web3, I had a dream of finding new and interesting ways to tell a story. Something that combined all modes of delivering narrative and that utilised all available media. Until I had heard of web3, it was a pipe-dream. But with this new technology I found the perfect vehicle for it.

An important part of this project is not just finding new ways of telling it, but new ways to involve the ‘listener’ too. Things like ownership, provenance & gamification can result in innovative ways for people to consume the story, and immerse themselves in it.

A perfect tool for this is token-bound, unlockable content, made possible by Darkblock. With it, I can reward collectors with things like high-res print files, show them a peak behind the curtain with timelapses or development notes and, most fun of all, create exclusive pieces of the story puzzle that only they can see.

I’ve been able to embed this exclusive content on my website, TheEndlingSaga.io, giving collectors a unique deep-diving experience all in one place. With Darkblock I can truly start to break new ground in storytelling and the pipe-dream is becoming a reality.”