About Sync.Land
Independent music, licensed directly — without the paperwork tax.
Sync.Land is a peer-to-peer marketplace where filmmakers, game developers, podcasters, and creators license original music straight from the artists who made it. Every license ships with a PDF certificate and an on-chain Cardano receipt, and the artist sets the price.
What Sync.Land does.
One marketplace, three ways to license music. No opaque catalog aggregators, no bait-and-switch pricing, no exclusive holds you didn’t sign up for.
Music licensing without the middleman.
Artists set their own terms. Licensees pick the tier that fits the project: Free Sync for creator-scale use (personal, education, UGC, podcasts, game jams), Commercial Sync from $49 for monetized professional projects, or Custom for broadcast, film, and brand campaigns. Full details on the licensing page.
Proof that survives platform bans.
Every license mints as a CIP-25 token on the Cardano blockchain. The record is authoritative, timestamped, and verifiable on Cardanoscan — independent of our database. If we’re gone tomorrow, the license still holds.
Artists keep control.
Licensing revenue routes to the artist through Stripe or PayPal payout. No PRO middleman, no month-long escrow, no exclusive assignment. What you upload stays yours.
How Sync.Land operates.
Four ideas that shape every decision we make on the platform. If a product change violates one of these, it doesn’t ship — regardless of the metric it would move.
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Artists set their own price. Nobody here decides what your music is worth. You set the price on your own catalog — we don’t discount it, bundle it into an all-you-can-eat subscription, or route it through an aggregator that pays out in fractions of a cent.
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Non-exclusive by default. Keep your Spotify. Keep your Bandcamp. Keep your BroadJam. We only ask for the sync grant we actually license — not the rest of your catalog rights.
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Every license lives on chain. A CIP-25 token on Cardano is authoritative for the fact of issuance — verifiable independent of our database. Off-chain paperwork is a courtesy; on-chain proof is the source of truth.
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Clarity over ambiguity. Fine print that means “we can change our mind later” is a bug. Our licenses define specific numbers, specific dollar thresholds, specific attribution strings. Cheaper to trust, harder to abuse.
Who built it.
Sync.Land is a small studio operation, built and run by a working musician who ships code. No investors, no growth-hacking mandate, no exit plan. Everything you use here was made by someone who releases records too.
Founder · Sync.Land
Ian McCullough — Cullah
Milwaukee-based artist and developer. Seventeen studio albums over twenty years under the name Cullah, one released every year on his birthday. Wrote the Sync.Land platform from the ground up because the licensing tools available to indie artists were either predatory, opaque, or both.
Get in touch.
Music supervisor with a placement question, artist thinking about joining the roster, journalist writing about the platform, or someone who spotted a bug — we read every message.
Prefer email? info@sync.land. For DMCA and copyright concerns see the Terms of Use.
The parent company
Sync.Land is operated by Awen LLC.
Awen is a small Milwaukee-based studio that builds tools for independent musicians. Sync.Land is our licensing marketplace. We also run Valt, a platform for tokenized fan collectibles and superfan drops on the same Cardano rails.
No investors, no growth-hacking mandate. We ship what artists actually need.
Also from Awen
Valt Tokenized fan collectibles for artists whose reach can’t fit inside a streaming payout. In development.