Nina is a music platform.
Nina is a self-publishing toolkit.
Nina is an online record store.
Nina is a home for music communities.
On Nina, artists and labels receive 100% of the revenue from digital music sales. Listeners can discover new scenes, support artists, and access exclusive files.
Nina encourages a context-driven approach to music discovery. The relationships between artists, labels, listeners, writers, and supporters serve as pathways for discovering new music and scenes.
Actions on Nina – whether it’s uploading a track, following an artist, or making a purchase – are stored on the Solana and Arweave blockchains. This creates an open network and music archive that anyone can tap into, explore further, or develop on top of. Nina is not a speculative marketplace.
Why build Nina?
Nina is a small team with deep roots in DIY and underground music scenes. We care a lot about how music exists online.
Independent artists are underserved by today’s dominant music services. Artists experience low streaming royalties and demonetization, are made to share large cuts of sales revenue on merchandise and downloads, and have to fight to be embraced by algorithms. We think there is another way forward.
Starting from first principles, we’re reimagining what it means to release music online. Nina exists to empower independent music, artists, and scenes at scale.
About the platform
No subscription fees
There’s no monthly fee required to keep your music up. It’s forever yours – not the platform’s – and can be accessed even if our platform ceases to exist.
100% profit, 100% yours
Nina takes no cut on the sales of your release, whether you’re an individual artist, band, label, or anything else.
Built for collaboration
You can create splits that define how the proceeds are automatically distributed between you and your collaborators.
No one-size-fits-all
Whether your release is an album, single, sample library, or type-beat, you can tailor the parameters of its distribution. A release on Nina can be free to download or listed at any price in limited or unlimited quantities.
A release on Nina can be a key to access more of your art
Bonus material is a built-in feature that allows you to easily provide purchasers with exclusive access to additional digital material.
Open source and accessible
We see value in open source networks – not owned by any one corporation – that can host files and payment logic in a public and permanent way. We’re trying to build the most direct way of hosting music and supporting artists online. Nina is built on blockchain rails to enable unique features that private networks can’t offer. On these rails, you can purchase releases with the same card you use for everyday transactions. You still retain full access and added functionalities of the music you collect – we’re just trying to make it accessible for everyone.
Blockchain but different
Releases on Nina are semi-fungible tokens issued on the Solana blockchain. Technically they are similar to NFTs. In practice this verifies that you own the releases you collect, so you can do things like unlock bonus material from an artist and ensure permanent access to the music in your collection. Most of the releases on Nina are very affordable or free.