gm, and welcome to issue #40 of ✨Spark✨ We have creators planning virtual concerts, crowdfunds, and music production sessions using our token-gated livestream feature. Do you have something you’d like to try? Reply to this email to get early access. But wait, there's more...

Bonfire Product Updates

📽 Native Video (Beta)

Super excited to announce that support for uploading and sharing video content natively on Bonfire, powered by our partner Livepeer under the hood, is ready to begin rolling out in beta!

We’re opening a few spots for creators interested in helping us pilot and give feedback on the feature - respond to this email and let us know if you’d like to get early access!

Creator Spotlight

A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to write a case study on Mark de Clive-Lowe, a jazz musician and electronic music producer who has been leveraging social tokens to build his digital communities. We discuss some of the tactics that have helped Mark find success, from his entrance onto the web3 scene with his inaugural NFT collection - Motherland, to his $BUYBACK crowdfund, to the Mashibeats community, a nascent DAO that seeks to provide mentorship and resources to budding musicians.

Mark shows that there is ample opportunity for musicians to carve their own paths in web3 and that for those seeking the type of creative liberation that has been absent from the music industry for so long, and those willing to spend the time building community, this is an incredible place to be.

Read the case study here.

That's Fire

Fans are the new creators

Sound is making listening to, and collecting music more social

Warner Records UK and Probably Nothing tease an upcoming label

What does “ownership” on the internet mean?

Building communities with a unifying vision

$10k-$50k grants for orgs & creators to launch a purpose-driven social token

Apply to HiFi labs’ artists cohort with mentorship, resources, and peer support

Tip of the Week

If you’re grinding to reach your goals, yet seem further away from them as ever, then a few things might be going on. Michael Ashcroft writes about achieving goals using Perceptual Control Theory, which states that “we bring about changes in the world by contrasting the perception we want to have with the perception we currently have.”

He reflects on 3 ways in which we might be steering ourselves away from where we want to go. 1) not having a clear sense of where you are 2) not clear on where you want to go 3) having conflicting goals that need untangling. Rather than grinding your way out of a grind, take a step back to reassess, recalibrate and realign.

Your Turn

Do you have any web3 goals we can help make happen? No matter how big or small, shoot me an email or DM us on twitter about it. And check our Roadmap to submit and vote on your favorite features.

If you’re just joining, you can find our past issues here.

Until next time,

Bonfire Team