Using Blockchain for Video Streaming: A Quick Lesson to Create, Mint, and Watch

Ginger by Blvckl!ght on Rad TV

With crypto absolutely ripping (again), and a new baseline locked in with BTC and ETH ETFs established, if you’re in the media business and you haven’t played with Web3 at all yet, what are you even doing? We’re way past the NFT craze, and building for real with a trillion dollar asset class.

We’ve made blockchain-based video very easy for you to play with. Take a few minutes today, tonight, or this weekend to try it out! These are not cartoon jpgs or a marketing ploy. This is a genuine use of blockchain technology, foundational infrastructure, and a paradigm shift for storytelling, accounting, ownership, and royalties.

Part 1 — Get Crypto in a Wallet:

This may seem tricky, but it’s really not, and once you do it one time it’s effortless going forward. It’s like setting up your bank account for the first time and getting your debit card. ETH is a great place to start since it has wide support for purchasing, but we support other chains as well, with more coming in the near future.

If you have no ETH, start at Step 1. If you already have ETH in a wallet, but not on Base, skip to Step 4. If you already have ETH on the Base network, skip this section altogether and down to Part 2.

1. Sign up for Coinbase if you haven’t already.

2. Buy ETH on Coinbase with your connected bank account or CC. $100 will give you enough to play around, but there is content on Rad TV for anywhere from $0.50 to $15, and a Stream Pass unlimited subscription unlock is ~$80.

3. Send that ETH to a browser based wallet plugin, like Coinbase’s wallet on Chrome.

4. Once the ETH arrives in your wallet on Chrome, open the wallet, select Ethereum in the Crypto Tab, click Bridge, Make sure the “From network” is Ethereum and the “To network” is Base, select some or all of the ETH to bridge, click Preview, and click Bridge.

5. There is a fee associated with this transaction, which is basically paying the network to enter the transaction into the Ethereum ledger (much like your bank’s ledger, but decentralized).

Part 2 — Buy, Subscribe, or Create Content onchain:

There are a few simple ways to play around here. Buy and watch an onchain video, buy and use a Stream Pass, or create your own video onchain using our Creator Studio. We’ll go into detail on each of these below.

A. Acquire & Watch an Onchain Video (like TVOD or PVOD):

1. Go to RadTV.com, click Watch, and Check out the Onchain tab.

2. Navigate to an onchain video like Rabbit Hole by Bitjoin Studios, which is a super interesting documentary, or Ginger by Blvckl!ght which is awesome generative AI.

3. Click Connect Wallet and give Rad TV permission to interact with the wallet and ensure it’s on Base Chain.

4. Click Buy Now and approve the transaction when it pops up in your wallet.

5. Enjoy the show! You can also view this content on Rad TVs Android TV, Apple TV, Fire TV, iPhone, Android, PS5, and Quest apps, as well as the web.

Why is this game changer? The smart contract for purchasing handled the payouts to the creators instantly upon confirmation, it gave you an entitlement tracked on the blockchain, and it created an audit trail that you can see real time less than a minute after purchase. To see your purchase, wait for the table below the video to update and click the link on your transaction.

B. Buy and Use Stream Pass

How To (We have docs here with greater detail on how to do this, buy ETH, etc.):

1. Buy the Stream Pass at the link here or above. You need a crypto wallet with ~0.03 ETH in it on the Ethereum Mainnet.

2. Once the purchase is confirmed, log into your Rad TV account on the website, navigate to the Subscription tab, and register your Stream Pass ownership. Rad TV will check your wallet to make sure you own one.

3. Now your account is unlocked for all premium features and content.

4. You can resell or transfer at any time on NFT marketplaces like OpenSea or Magic Eden, but this will cause your Rad TV account that registered it to lose access.

Why is this game changer? Stream Pass is more than a subscription. Owners gain access to the full platform and content across all devices as long as you hold it. However, rather than being locked into a monthly or yearly fee that expires, the Stream Pass is a one time purchase that never expires, and owners can resell on the secondary market whenever they wish, send it to a friend or family member, include it in your estate, gift it, whatever! Rad TV can’t stop what you do with it.

Don’t get left behind. Buy a Stream Pass. Your great grandchildren will thank you.

C. Create video onchain. Make money using Creator Studio

Now that you have some ETH in a wallet, if you’re a video creator, you can create video onchain yourself. Once the flow is set up, it’s very easy! However, since this is slightly more involved it likely makes sense to go through the docs.

Read how to add onchain content to the Creator Studio here.

Or watch the demo video here.

It’s almost like creating a YouTube video, but you have the option to create the main smart contract for your collection of videos, create a video that has specific royalty splits to multiple payout wallets, and publish the video onchain for others to buy.

There is also a dashboard showing you top level stats and earnings, which we’re also building out with much deeper analytics.

Make money as a video creator on Rad TV

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Want to get your content onchain? We can help!

• Business and partnership requests can shoot an email to Rad TV here.

• Create accounts, upload, monetize, and stream onchain by going to https://radtv.com.

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