Why are you participating for Based LatAm?

MESA is co-founded by Andres Botero, born in Venezuela and raised in Colombia. At MESA we believe that a strong creator class in Latin America is the most powerful way to tackle endemic problems for the youth, like violent association with crime and lack of opportunities and jobs.

What challenges are you focusing on?

Our challenge is to create succesful processes and stories that help drive the narrative of re-valuing music and the arts. There are strong paradigms that keep artists submitted to gate keeping of mayor distribution channels. Value needs to be free.
We believe that it will be emerging artists the ones who breakthrough using new web 3 technologies, will change the narrative on how to access new markets, with new models for sustainable living income, funding and growth. BASE helps making releasing music onchain affordable.

How does your submission address this challenge?

We want to help more Latam artists live the experience of releasing music succesfully onchain, understanding the challenges and rewards while they go through hands-on processes. From 0 - 1.

DROP YOUR DEMO is a song contest. The winner will be awarded a sold out mint pushing their song onto secondary markets where they can find additional funding for their project.

User journey:

• User lands on contest page
• Requirements: song file, artwork, signed music splits contracts
  All compliant submissions will:
• Create smart wallet via MESA
• Create project using smart wallet and EAS
• Create EAS attestation on IP property
• Store written splits contract on IPFS
• Create onchain splits
• Distribute music to their Zora profile
• Base names dropped into their smart wallet
• Share process on socials
  Winner:
• chosen by quadratic voting by participating artists
• Winner gets 100% of the prize, taking their NFT drop into secondary coin markets and boost
  All participants:
• Will get set up and learn the process to distribute onchain. Will have access to an open educational archive of the winning song and its process going into secondary markets.

Challenges I ran into

We came late to the hackathon submission. However, this has been a good excercise for the MESA team to prove that we can put together an idea, assemble a team and deliver in a short period of time. The team working on this project is not the core MESA team, we have paired up with new devs and Crypto Musica Records and brought them on for this project with the hopes of growing our team after succesfully workimg together.

We pulled it off :)

Additional Features

MESA was started during the summer buildathon via a builder grant. After the close of the buoldathion we have:

• Wrapped up Based in Colombia
• Redesigned UI
• Implemented splits
• Distribution to Zora and Sound
• Free modular contract builder for IP
• Drop your Demo contest and interface