For decades, the music industry has run on an infrastructure designed for a different era. Royalty payments often take months to process, passing through layers of publishers, distributors, and collecting societies before reaching the artists and rights holders who earned them. The result is an ecosystem defined by delays, opaque accounting, and widespread uncertainty about when and how money will arrive.

Record Financial (“Record”), a technology company focused on modernizing music finance, is reimagining that system from the ground up. By building its platform on Avalanche and integrating stablecoins like USDC, Record can deliver transparent, real-time payments directly to artists and creators. What once took months can now occur in seconds.

A System Overdue for Change

Each time a song is streamed, downloaded, or performed, a network of intermediaries must identify who owns the rights, reconcile data from multiple sources, and manually route payments across jurisdictions. These processes are slow, costly, and prone to error. For many artists, delayed payments and incomplete statements are accepted as part of the business.

Record has transformed this model. Its platform aggregates and normalizes royalty data, then uses Avalanche’s high-performance blockchain to distribute payments instantly with stablecoins. The system provides a single, verifiable source of truth that allows artists, labels, and managers alike to operate from the same data in real time.

Record is already powering projects for major artists and forward-thinking labels. 11am has been the earliest adopter, representing artists including Armani White, RealestK, Lil Tjay, A$AP Ferg, Alex Warren, and Maddox Batson, giving Record a roster with real cultural reach as they take royalties onchain.

“Blockchain offers the music industry an opportunity to rebuild its financial foundation on transparency,” said Travis Garrett, Chief Executive Officer of Record. “By combining our data infrastructure with Avalanche’s speed and scalability, we are solving issues that have constrained the industry for generations like delayed payments, missing checks, and the lack of ownership clarity.”

Why Avalanche

Avalanche provides the performance and reliability needed to power high-volume payment systems at global scale, while its architecture enables Record to handle millions of microtransactions worldwide.

Stablecoin rails on Avalanche add another layer of utility. By settling royalties in USDC, Record enables creators to hold and manage their earnings in digital wallets, convert to local currencies, or reinvest directly into their careers. This integration bridges traditional finance with the emerging onchain economy, where value moves freely and transparently.

“Real-world builders are choosing Avalanche to deliver real-world solutions,” said Morgan Krupetsky, VP of Onchain Finance at Ava Labs. “Record is a powerful example of how blockchain can modernize legacy industries. Music royalties represent a market of more than forty billion dollars annually, and bringing that infrastructure onchain creates fairness, efficiency, and new economic possibilities for artists and creators worldwide.”

The Future of Creative Finance

The implications of Record’s model extend beyond music. The same framework that enables real-time royalty payments can support film, television, and digital media—industries where complex ownership structures and manual processes similarly restrict financial transparency. By replacing slow intermediaries with programmable, verifiable systems, Record is demonstrating how blockchain technology can align incentives across the creative economy.

For Avalanche, the partnership reflects a growing trend of enterprises using its technology to power stablecoin-based payment networks and institutional-grade financial products. From global banks to digital creators, organizations are adopting Avalanche to rebuild the financial infrastructure that underpins their industries.

Record represents a clear example of that transformation in action: a platform where creative work meets modern finance, and where payments finally move at the speed of culture.