Spotify is trying to rent a senior-level engineer to work with upcoming applied sciences like Web3. Touted as the subsequent part of the Internet, Web3 will largely be backed by the blockchain know-how. Spotify needs to check out the Web3 house, particularly at a time when its components just like the metaverse and NFTs are witnessing main adoption and churning billions of {dollars} from the likes of lovers. As of now, Spotify has not linked its model to any factor of Web3 house.

The appointee shall be part of Spotify’s experimental development staff. One of the main focus areas of the chosen candidate shall be to make use of Web3 parts and map out the subsequent massive step for the music streaming big.

“You will work facilitate collaboration with product, insights, and design to uncover the next growth opportunity leveraging new technologies, like Web3,” Spotify’s LinkedIn posting read.

The job itemizing has requested for expertise main explorations and prototyping new merchandise.

In the third quarter of 2021, some 381 million month-to-month lively customers (MAUs) streamed music or podcasts by way of Spotify around the globe, statistics platform Statista had claimed.

It appears pure for Spotify to discover Web3 initiatives given the truth that worldwide music artists like Travis Scott, Justin Bieber, Marshmello, and Ariana Grande have carried out within the metaverse in current occasions.

Spotify just isn’t the one widespread model nevertheless, that’s trying to enterprise into the Web3 house.

YouTube has begun scouting for a challenge administration director to develop and head its Web3 methods and combine components corresponding to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the metaverse into its platform utilized by over two billion individuals worldwide.

Indian music label T-Series additionally lately introduced its entry into the metaverse in partnership with Hungama Digital to create NFTs from the huge catalogue of recent and current Bollywood content material parented by T-Series.

Recently, the same job itemizing was posted by Microsoft as properly. The software program big was on the lookout for a Director of Business Development – Cryptocurrencies earlier this month, and the making use of course of was closed inside three days.

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