# 17 Cooper Turley, Strategy Lead at Audius on How to Build a Community Owned SoundCloud Alternative using Cryptonetworks and Token incentives Cryptotesters

In this episode Cooper Turley from Audius shares with us why he thinks the music industry is ripe for disruption. Whether it's the endless number of middlemen or a disjointed royalty system delaying payments to Artist, projects like Audius are here to make a change.

Audius is a decentralized music-sharing and streaming protocol facilitating direct relationships between artist and their fans. 

We discuss what Audius is about and how to create the right and incentive designs to onboard a new wave of artists & users to the world of crypto.

We also cover what makes Audius unique, the AUDIO platform token and what to keep an eye out for in the coming weeks.

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