DEMU is the royalty settlement layer for intellectual property, starting with music. Settlement is fixed at the source, so every rights holder is paid their exact share. By repairing the plumbing first, music IP becomes a liquid, investable asset.
Today: payments that are not transparent, slow, and impossible to verify.
On DEMU: every dollar your music earns settles into your account, and every collaborator receives their exact share at the same moment.
Today: months spent matching mismatched statements before anyone gets paid.
On DEMU: incoming money splits to every owner automatically, in the exact right amounts, the moment it arrives. The statement and the payment become one event.
Today: mismatched data strands money in a black box of unpaid royalties.
On DEMU: a single payment and an allocation report settle thousands of works to their verified owners at once. Royalties never disappear into the black box.
Today: thousands of counterparties, every deal bespoke.
On DEMU: one endpoint to report usage, remit payment, and hold cryptographic proof that you settled with every rights holder.
Today: catalog valuations built on lagged, unverifiable statements.
On DEMU: audit-quality cash-flow data per work. Music IP becomes legible enough to underwrite, lend against, and trade.
Today: licensing and royalty plumbing kills music apps before launch.
On DEMU: open, permissionless rails where licensing and settlement are already solved. Ship the product, not the plumbing.
Every song is two works: the recording and the composition. Each gets its own account, split into 1,000 shares we call tokens. One token is a 0.1% slice of that work's revenue.
When a DSP, a collection agency, or a licensee reports and remits, the money lands in USD stablecoin in the right account, split correctly at the source, with the audit trail attached.
Token holders cash out to a bank account whenever they want, and can buy, sell, or trade the tokens themselves. Ownership backed by verifiable cash flow, not guesswork.
DEMU settles once a payer reports and remits. Routing is a payment primitive: licensing clearance happens under copyright law, and DEMU does not change how DSPs calculate streaming pools upstream. What it changes is everything after: who got paid, how much, how fast, and whether you can prove it.
We publish what is built and what is designed, and we do not blur the line between them.
The protocol whitepaper and two interactive walkthroughs are available on request: the settlement console a royalty administrator sees, and the dashboard a rights holder sees. Access is granted individually while the protocol is pre-launch.
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