Case Study Guild

A music OS where artists mint and share the upside.

Guild is a music OS for iOS and visionOS. Artists keep their library, collaborate with their community and other creators, and mint music tokens called Notes on Polygon. We built the apps end to end so creators can monetize their work and hand a real ownership stake to the people who helped make it.

Client: Guild
Sector: Web3 · Music
Engagement: Mobile & Web3 build
Stage: Public beta 2025
Platform: iOS · visionOS

The Guild Music OS interface, showing an artist's library, community space and the music-token minting flow — The Guild Music OS: a creator's library, a community space, and on-chain music tokens in one app.

By the numbers

$2MPre-token financing

2,500+Artists in development

5.0★App Store rating

iOS + visionOSPlatforms shipped

Musicians make the work, then watch other people own the upside.

A track is rarely one person. A singer, a producer, a manager and a videographer all touch it, and the fans carry it. Almost none of them hold a stake in what they helped build.

Labels own the rights and big platforms own the audience. The creator gets a stream of small payouts and no way to share that value with the community around the work. Guild wanted to flip that, and to do it inside an app a working artist would open every day.

The hard part sits where music meets crypto. An artist who has never touched a wallet still has to mint a token, sign a transaction, and trust that it worked. Get that flow wrong and you lose them on the first try.

One app for the library, the community, and the mint.

We built the Guild apps for iOS and visionOS: a library and collaboration space for creators, plus on-chain music-token minting on Polygon, so artists can monetize directly and share value with their community.

What that meant in practice

A native library where artists organize tracks and bring in collaborators by role
A community space where fans and other creators contribute to a release
A minting flow that wraps wallet connection and transaction signing for people new to crypto
Note tokens issued on Polygon, with over a third of the supply reserved for the community

Library

Every track in one place the artist owns.

The library is where a creator keeps their music and pulls collaborators into the work by role. Singers, producers, and managers sit beside the tracks they touch, so the whole release lives in one app instead of scattered across files and chats.

Native on iOS and visionOS

Community

The people who make the work hold a stake in it.

Guild puts collaborators and fans next to the music, not behind a label. Notes earned through the app become a real ownership stake, and the artist decides how that value flows back to the community that carried the release.

1/3+ of Notes to the community

Minting

Mint a music token without learning a wallet.

An artist picks a track and Guild handles the wallet, the signing, and the on-chain write. We show each step of the token's lifecycle, so a creator who has never seen a blockchain knows the mint went through and the asset is theirs.

Notes minted on Polygon

The hardest part

A mint can fail or stall, and a musician who has never used a wallet reads silence as a lost track and a lost dollar. We modeled the full token lifecycle and surfaced every state in plain language, so a creator always knows whether the on-chain write is pending, done, or worth retrying.

Ego Eimi Engineering note · the build

Public beta, backed and in artists' hands.

Guild reached public beta in August 2025, with the apps shipping on iOS and visionOS and an early 5.0 rating on the App Store from a small set of three reviews.

The work landed on real backing. Guild raised $2M in pre-token financing from Capital Factory, Polygon and ex-Meta leaders, and more than 2,500 artists took part in the development of the product. Over a third of the Note supply sits reserved for the community, so the ownership story holds from day one.