With so much happening in multiple areas of the company, we decided to deliver a quarterly wrap up for today’s blog post, summarizing each of the active areas our team is working on as we move into Q2 of 2019. Each department has been busy with the following efforts, which we will explore in more detail below:

Launching Vezt Korea

Overseeing VZT’s migration to Stellar

Updating our backend to support the new token

Securing and launching some very exciting new ISO™ content to offer on the platform

Issuing User Payouts

Continuing a series of promotional events that have helped us introduce the platform to a wider body of users and content rights holders

Launching social media efforts to help introduce the world at-large to Vezt

Vezt Korea

Our team has been making preparations, both stateside and in Seoul, for the upcoming launch of Vezt Korea. After a successful internal beta, we are excited to announce that Vezt Korea’s app will launch in late June. In addition to upgrading the UX of their platform, their publishing arm, AMP is steadily lining up projects. Our official brand ambassador, Son Seung-Yeon will be featured in one of the first of these, in collaboration with a well-known producer during the official launch campaign.

In addition to IP from major KPop artists, Vezt Korea’s app will offer fans ISOs that are also available in our US marketplace, merchandise and ticket sales. This summer, their team will launch notable, high-visibility songs for their marketplace while we work on further developing and aligning our content and partnership strategy with KOMCA (Korea’s performing rights organization).

We’re also proud to share that Vezt Korea has completed registration and government approval of “AMP” as their distribution and publishing arm. AMP will allow select artists to easily distribute and collect royalty income for their work and will directly interface artists with opportunities on the Vezt Korea platform.

Stellar Migration

View the new VZT asset on Stellar Port here: https://stellarport.io/assets/alphanum4/VZT/GBENYXZDFFR2J4F4DB3YPBBAM244TXYOTIOOUQI5DBT3OKUU4ZJ2M7NO

As announced in our last post: VZT, Vezt’s official token, is migrating to the Stellar protocol in anticipation of scale demands based on a number of our target metrics for 2019 and 2020. This process has included thoroughly updating the backend of the application to function as it did on the Ethereum network, but with the new, Stellar-based, VZT token. The app will support generating a wallet that you may send your new VZT to for participating in ISOs. Though thorough, this process will ensure that we can process a higher number of transactions simultaneously, eliminating transactions that may remain ‘pending’ in the portfolio for a longer period of time than we’d like. If you have ERC-20 VZT and need help completing the migration process, we recommend checking out our migration guide or reaching out to us at support@vezt.co with your public wallet ID.

ISO Digest

Our A&R team can’t stop showing Vezt to exciting artists we know and love. They literally can’t stop — it’s their job. They’ve ramped up the volume of well known ISO content every month of the year so far, and we can’t wait to show you what else we’re bringing to the platform. In early 2019, we launched ISOs as recorded by major artists including Rick Ross, Snoop Dogg, Too Short, Red Cafe, Jeremih, and Freddie Gibbs.

These were followed by ISOs in March and February for titles as recorded by trending artists like Tommy Genesis, Dillon Francis, Twista and more. Here’s some of our fan favorites:

- “All That” as recorded by Dillon Francis, featuring Twista and The Rej3ctz

This 2014 electro-trap anthem was produced by dance music superstar, Dillon Francis (secretly known as DJ Hanzel) and features vocals from legendary emcee Twista along with The Rej3ctz.

“I’m Yours” — as recorded by Tommy Genesis and Chuck Inglish

Hip-hop heavyweight producer Chuck Inglish teamed with the breathtakingly artistic, Tommy Genesis on this banger.