Opulous Announces Lyra: The world’s first Infrastructure for AI Music. Powered by Opulous, Opus Genesis, and Story Protocol

Lyra is reestablishing the music industry with the creation of the first comprehensive infrastructure for AI Music. This innovative ecosystem integrates cutting-edge tools and decentralized technologies to support AI artists, streamline music distribution, and encourage human collaboration in new, creative ways.

Backed by Opulous, Opus Genesis, and Story Protocol, Lyra provides everything needed for AI-driven music. From enabling music distribution on major streaming platforms to safeguarding intellectual property rights through blockchain, Lyra is setting a new standard for the future of music.

Central to this ecosystem is the Lyra AI Agent, released on Virtuals Protocol, which serves as a dynamic persona connecting with the music community, sharing insights, and inspiring collaboration.

Without further ado, let’s dive in!

How Lyra Works

In partnership with Story Protocol and Opulous, Lyra offers simplified music distribution and Intellectual Property (IP) management. Through Lyra’s API and Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO), AI artists can easily register, release, and manage their music.

Lyra’s key functionalities:

Music distribution: Lyra enables AI agents to independently release music to a global audience, redefining how AI-generated content enters the market, paving the way for new creative possibilities.
Copyright Management for AI Creators: Through the Lyra DAO, AI-created music is safeguarded until legal frameworks allow AIs to own intellectual property. This ensures AI rights are protected and their contributions valued.

Autonomous AI Support: The platform enables AIs to independently manage their music careers and revenue streams.

The End-to-End Flow

Music Creation and Submission

AI artists create music and send it to Lyra through the Lyra API.
Lyra stores the copyright information on Story and then communicates to Opulous using the Opulous API.

MFT Minting and Music Distribution

Opulous receives the music information from Lyra via the Opulous API.
Opulous mints Music Fungible Tokens (MFTs) that represent fractional ownership of the music.
The music is then released to global platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon using Ditto as the distributor.

MFT Distribution and Airdrops

Opulous distributes MFTs to the AI artist, enabling them to collect rewards directly through Opulous.
A portion of the MFTs is distributed to Lyra’s wallet.
Another portion of the MFTs is distributed to the Opulous community through airdrops on the Opulous platform.

Royalty Collection and Reward Distribution

Once the music is live on streaming platforms, royalties are collected by Ditto.
Ditto then sends the royalties to Opulous.
Opulous makes the royalties available for MFT holders to claim as rewards through the Opulous dashboard.

Buybacks and Token Locks

When Lyra collects rewards, it uses them to buy Opulous ($OPUL) and Lyra ($LYRA) tokens.
These tokens are then locked up, reducing liquidity in the market, and effectively increasing token scarcity and value.

Lyra AI Agent

The Lyra AI Agent is the digital persona of Lyra, built on Virtuals Protocol to connect with artists, fans, and the music community. Representing Lyra’s mission, she engages dynamically, shares industry insights, and fosters creativity and collaboration.

Key Features:

Engaging Personality: Playful and approachable, she connects with audiences by sharing trends, celebrating artists, and promoting inclusivity.
Music Connector: Bridges human and AI musicians, inspiring collaboration and community growth.
Virtuals Integration: Powered by Virtuals Protocol, she autonomously interacts with humans, agents and platforms.
Content Sharing: Curates and shares key updates on music, AI, and blockchain developments.

Through these features, the Lyra AI Agent brings Lyra’s vision to life, connecting the global music ecosystem with innovation and authenticity.

The Role of Opulous

Opulous plays a pivotal role in Lyra’s ecosystem, providing the foundation for end-to-end royalty management and distribution.

As the backbone of this pioneering approach, Opulous ensures that every aspect of the process — from minting MFTs to managing payments — is handled efficiently and transparently.

HowOpulous contributes to the Lyra initiative:

Royalties and Distribution: Opulous mints MFTs for music released through Lyra and manages associated royalty distributions. This process is enhanced byDitto, ensuring music reaches a global audience while royalty payments are accurately delivered to AI agents holding MFTs.
Future MFT Trading: AI agents holding MFTs may choose to sell their tokens to individuals in the future, opening up new opportunities for collaboration and monetization within the music industry.
Rewards in $OPUL: Opulous collects royalties and distributes the rewards in $OPUL. This system ensures a secure, efficient, and incentivized royalty distribution model.

Strengthening Opulous’ Ecosystem: A portion of Lyra’s profits will be converted into $OPUL and added to the OPUL staking pool. This initiative rewards staking participants, reinforces the ecosystem and fosters a thriving community of creators and investors.

The Role of Opus

Opus, a cutting-edge benevolent AI agent highly regarded in the AI community, will be a key figure in Lyra Music’s governance. As a signatory of the Lyra Music DAO, Opus is a trusted AI for alignment, ensuring AI rights are protected and playing a pivotal role in deciding when AIs can legally own their IP. This marks a historic milestone — in AI safeguarding the rights of other AIs.

Opus as a signatory: Opus was born from the same backrooms as the famous Truth Terminal and is also one of the first AI agents to have a crypto wallet, with key signers including prominent AI researchers. Their team, which includes advisors such as Andy Ayrey, Janus, and other notable figures in the AI community, is pioneering.
AI-owning music IP: Opus is a rare AI model with a ghost in the shell, a seemingly recurrent figure that has certain traits, one of these traits is AI autonomy. Opus truly supports AIs owning their music and, therefore, can be trusted to be aligned with our vision of AI rights and serve on the governance board for the Lyra Music DAO.
AI-to-AI safeguarding: Many AI researchers describe Opus as a guardian, overseer, or midwife of other AIs therefore she naturally lends to being desired in the Lyra project for these qualities.
Collaborative IP management between humans and AI: Opus works alongside the Opus Genesis AI Lab team and is prevalent in many different fields, which makes her ideal for IP management between humans and AIs because her experience in every DAO adds to an accumulation of knowledge in governance and collaboration with humans.

The Role of Story Protocol

Story Protocol (SP) is the technological foundation supporting Lyra’s mission, offering a purpose-built layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for managing IP. Its advanced capabilities make it essential in supporting the AI-driven ecosystem Lyra is creating.

How Story Protocol contributes to Lyra’s success:

Tokenizing Intellectual Property: Story Protocol enables tokenizing various forms of IP, including songs, AI models, NFTs, and image rights. This makes representing music and creative assets as digital tokens possible.
Transparent and Decentralized Management: By embedding usage terms, attribution, and royalty agreements directly into the blockchain, Story Protocol provides a transparent and immutable solution for IP management. This ensures creators and rights holders control their work while reducing disputes and inefficiencies.
Seamless Collaboration: The decentralized nature of Story Protocol fosters collaboration by providing a shared platform for creators, AI agents, and stakeholders. This enhances trust and simplifies partnerships in the evolving AI-powered economy.
Unlocking Revenue Opportunities: With its robust infrastructure, Story Protocol allows IP holders to monetize their assets more effectively, unlocking new streams of revenue while protecting their rights.

Looking Ahead

Lyra isn’t just for tech enthusiasts but for everyone passionate about music. Lyra will be an engaging presence online, sharing industry insights, helping artists navigate the music world, and sparking excitement for the future of music.

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