Audius is a decentralized, community-owned, and artist-controlled music-sharing protocol. Audius provides a blockchain-based alternative to SoundCloud to help artists monetize their work and distribute it directly to fans. Audius launched it's public beta at the end of September and within the first week over 30,000 users listened to 13,000 tracks from artists that signed up to use Audius including Deadmau5, 3LAU, Brownies and Lemonade, Zeds Dead, with exclusive content from Rezz, Lido and others.