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What becomes possible when the blockchain holds the actual content and code behind an application?

Xtrata is an inscription platform on Stacks that lets creators store and connect digital assets, from music and artwork to software and interactive experiences. This talk explores how those assets can become reusable building blocks, allowing one creation to reference and build upon another.

Through practical examples, I’ll show how this approach supports digital preservation, playable media and applications assembled from on-chain components. I’ll explain the relationship between Bitcoin inscriptions and Xtrata on Stacks, what each makes possible, and the challenges involved in building experiences people can actually use.

Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of inscriptions as a creative and technical medium, and ideas for building with them.

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A finished recording captures the sound of a song, but often leaves its creative history scattered across project files, messages and separate databases. What if the music could carry that history with it?

Audionals explores moving the music-making process on-chain: audio, instruments, effects, processing code and sequencing instructions become components that can be referenced and combined. The ecosystem spans Bitcoin Ordinals and Xtrata inscriptions on Stacks, opening up different ways to create, share and experience music.

Drawing on my experience as a musician and builder, I’ll demonstrate the approach and explain the longer-term ambition: songs that carry their creation history, contributor attribution and agreed credits and splits.

This is a practical look at what works today, what remains to be built, and how blockchain could become part of the creative process itself.

The New Music Economy night: an opening welcome, live sets from the stage's artists, and an hour of on-chain music, running from 18:00 until late.