Crypto’s age of hype is over, making way for the real infrastructure to be built
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By Fernando Nikolic
Published on March 15, 2026.
Leah Callon-Butler, a product lead at Universal Music during the torrent era, argues that the music industry's rock-and-roll era is over, making way for the real infrastructure to be built. She suggests that the transition from rock and roll to digital assets is similar to what happened in the industry, where labels survived and transformed streaming into innovation. The establishment absorbed the revolution and rebranded it as a product. While Universal was busy becoming a streaming company, ten thousand teenagers with blogs and bedroom studios were creating something that labels couldn't wrap. CallonButler argues that while the establishment remained weird, the future of the industry lies in the hands of young adults and the ones who build the infrastructure that makes it possible.
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