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By Artizen
Match funding platform for breakthroughs in art, science, technology, and culture.
Enhancing Artizen with Stellar Integration
NFT Minting: Use Stellar to mint low-cost, fast NFTs, enabling creators to tokenize and monetize their work globally.
Cross-Border Payouts: Stellar’s infrastructure ensures low-cost, rapid payouts with currency conversion, empowering creators in under-resourced regions.
Efficient Sponsorship Payments: Stellar streamlines transparent fund transfers from brands to creators, building trust and reducing overhead.
Expanded Payment Options: Stellar enables diverse payment methods, lowering barriers for fans and increasing project funding.
Impact: Stellar integration makes Artizen faster, cheaper, and more inclusive, scaling our mission to empower creators while advancing Stellar's vision for equitable financial access.
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$130.0K
100,000 New Users: Drive adoption of Stellar-powered features, expanding financial access for creators globally.
$10M Awarded to Creators: Increase funding to underserved creators, boosting economic opportunities in under-resourced regions.
100 Stellar-Powered Projects: Showcase the impact of fast, low-cost payments and NFTs on creator success.
Global Reach: Empower creators in Africa, Latin America, and beyond with cross-border payment solutions.
Our go-to-market strategy is bold and visionary: we’re partnering with cultural icons like the Wu-Tang Clan, groundbreaking scientists like Brian Cox, and visionary artists like Grimes to launch Stellar-powered creative projects that captivate global audiences. With a track record of working with legends like Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, and Patti Smith, we’ll use these relationships to secure high-profile sponsorships and drive mass adoption. Having awarded $1.7M through partners like Microsoft and Unity, we’re now aiming to collaborate with brands like Adobe and Meta to award $10M to creators in the next 24 months.
Traction Evidence for Artizen x Stellar Integration
Awarded $2M to Creators: Artizen has funded 268 groundbreaking projects across art, science, and technology. This demonstrates our proven ability to attract top creators and successfully scale funding mechanisms.
Rapid Growth: Artizen’s North Star metric—total money awarded—has more than doubled every season, with projections to surpass $1B awarded by 2028.
Global Community of Innovators: Over 50,000 creators and fans actively participate on our platform, including award-winning innovators whose projects premiere at events like Sundance and TED.
Profitable and Scalable: With a sustainable business model generating $350K in revenue this year, Artizen is already profitable and rapidly expanding.
Brand Partnerships: Trusted by global leaders like Filecoin, Microsoft, and the Tribeca Film Festival, Artizen consistently drives ecosystem growth for sponsors.
These milestones validate Artizen’s capability to execute and scale initiatives, providing a solid foundation for Stellar integration to amplify our impact.
Deliverable 1: Integration of Stellar NFT Minting for Artifacts
Description: Implement core functionality to mint Artifacts as NFTs on Stellar, with metadata stored on IPFS/Arweave. This includes developing a user interface for creators to tokenize their work and creating wallet integration for receiving NFTs.
How to Measure Completion: Successful minting of an Artifact NFT on Stellar by a creator, with metadata stored off-chain and linked to the NFT. Demonstration of the functionality in a live staging environment.
Estimated Date of Completion: Month 2
Budget: $45,000 (Development costs, blockchain integration, frontend/backend engineering, IPFS/Arweave storage setup).
Deliverable 2: Cross-Border Payouts via Stellar
Description: Develop the backend system for cross-border payments using Stellar’s PathPaymentStrictSend operation. Integrate with Stellar Anchors to provide fiat on/off ramps for payouts in local currencies.
How to Measure Completion: Completion of a successful test payment from a sponsor to a creator, with currency conversion and withdrawal through an anchor.
Estimated Date of Completion: Month 3
Budget: $20,000 (Smart contract development, integration with Stellar Anchors, payment gateway setup).
Deliverable 3: Stellar Testnet Deployment for Core Features
Description: Deploy and test NFT minting, cross-border payouts, and sponsorship payment features on Stellar Testnet. Build in feedback mechanisms for creators and sponsors.
How to Measure Completion: Successful deployment on Testnet with end-to-end testing of core features, including minting, payouts, and payments. Documented feedback from beta testers.
Estimated Date of Completion: Month 4
Budget: Access to Stellar LaunchKit resources (no XLM award for this tranche).
Deliverable 4: Launch on Stellar Mainnet
Description: Deploy the full Stellar integration on Artizen’s platform, including NFT minting, payouts, and sponsorship payments. Ensure integration with Stellar Anchors for fiat conversions and finalize user onboarding experience.
How to Measure Completion: Public launch on Stellar Mainnet with live transactions. Demonstration of successful NFT minting, payouts, and sponsorship payments by real users.
Estimated Date of Completion: Month 6
Budget: $65,000 (Final engineering, security audits, deployment costs, user onboarding support).
René Pinnell is the founder of Artizen, a match funding platform for human creativity. Over the past two decades, René has helped creators raise more than $50MM for original projects including the first seven-figure deal for a VR film at Sundance. As an executive producer, René Pinnell has worked on some of the industry’s most groundbreaking work including the animated VR film BATTLESCAR, starring Rosario Dawson, and the VR series SPHERES, starring Jessica Chastain, Millie Bobby Brown, and Patti Smith. As a filmmaker & designer, René produced the acclaimed comedy show Backpack Picnic, directed the feature documentary The King of Texas, sold a TV pilot to MTV, designed 5 products & founded 2 companies.
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