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# neume ENS application

## Title

neume

## Tagline

Open-source, socially scalable, indexing of Web3 Music

## Website

www.neume.network

## Payout address

neume.eth

## Description

[neume](https://github.com/neume-network) is tasked with indexing all activity within the emerging Web3 Music industry. It will provide the infrastructure needed to easily spin up platforms that experiment with showcasing Web3 Music and the endless potential of deeper connections between Artists and Fans.

neume is open-source (GPL-3) and built with the values of social-scalablity and credible-neutrality. It is a public good.

Over the past 9 months we have built out the crawler and extraction strategies for a number of the leading web3 music marketplaces, resulting in a database that is updated on a block-by-block basis, which is currently powering [musicOS](http://alpha.musicos.xyz).

This initial period was kindly supported by [HIFI Labs](https://hifilabs.co/welcome), moving forwards we are looking to diversify the project's funding, while ensuring that it remains true to its values (credibly neutral).

The next stage of development for neume will focus on generalising the crawler, expanding the contracts that it indexes (decentralising input), documentation, and opening communication up further (e.g. moving from discord to discourse).

Open-source indexing is essential for the emerging web3 music industry to avoid the pitfalls of the traditional status quo, where access to data and rights is extremely gatekept by incumbents leading to harm to innovation and a serious lack of transparency.

Any funds received through ENS small grants will be dedicated towards core architecture development, documentation, and communcation.