RELICS
2 known investors
Relics provides copyright-licensed music and music-enabled products for Roblox worlds, including music players, playlists, dance emotes, and avatar wearables. It serves Roblox game creators and players looking to add licensed music and sonic style to their 3D virtual environments.
Also known as Relics.xyz Β· RELICSxyz INC
Investors Β· 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026RELICS provides copyright-licensed music and music-enabled products for Roblox worlds. Its offering comprises complete copyright-licensed songs and music products for games, delivered as music players (boomboxes), playlists, dance emotes and music-enabled avatar wearables intended to make music social inside Roblox environments. The company positions itself around "sound and culture for the 3D internet era."
The relics.xyz site was previously the home of Relics, an NFT platform launched by electronic dance music label Monstercat. On that platform, fans collected and displayed music collectibles called Relics, each pairing a unique visual with a full-length song from Monstercat's roster of electronic artists. Relics could be traded or used as utilities in metaverse environments, and each included a license to play the song in metaverse spaces such as Decentraland, with additional metaverse partners planned. Relics carried an evolving trait called Gemstone Rarity β rated Quartz, Emerald, Sapphire, Ruby, and Onyx β that changed according to how the underlying song performed in the traditional music ecosystem, linking Web2 performance data to the Web3 asset.
Founding story
Relics.xyz was developed by Mike Darlington, co-founder and CEO of the independent record label Monstercat, as the label's debut NFT platform.
Business model
Relics supplies fully-licensed music and music-enabled virtual goods that Roblox creators and players can use inside games and worlds. In its earlier form as a Monstercat-developed NFT platform, the model centered on selling music collectibles that paid the musician and visual artist from both primary and secondary sales of each edition, and that carried a license to play the song in metaverse spaces.
Sales of music-enabled products and licensed music for virtual worlds. On the NFT platform, revenue came from primary and secondary sales of Relic editions, with the musician and visual artist on each Relic paid from both; the company stated the sale of one Relic roughly equated to the income a song would earn from one million streams on traditional streaming services.
Traction
Monstercat artists featured in the Season 1 collection included Half an Orange, whose track 'Mark Twain' was covered in the platform's first 'Beyond the Roadmap' entry. Relics were listed for trading on OpenSea, and the platform appeared at NFT LA in March 2022.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Relics positions itself as a licensed music supplier for Roblox worlds and, in its earlier form, as a music-NFT platform backed by an established independent electronic music label.
The offering centers on full copyright clearance for music used in third-party virtual worlds, combined with an evolving Gemstone Rarity trait on the NFT collectibles that tied a digital item's rarity to the real-world streaming and chart performance of the underlying song. The platform also emphasized artist compensation from both primary and secondary sales.
Technology
Music collectibles were issued as Ethereum-based NFTs, each bundling a full-length song, a visual, and a license permitting playback in metaverse platforms. The Gemstone Rarity trait updated dynamically in response to the underlying song's performance in traditional music channels. Current products are built as Roblox-compatible music players, playlists, dance emotes and avatar wearables.
Go-to-market
Distribution is oriented around the Roblox platform, where products such as boomboxes, dance emotes and avatar wearables are made available to game creators and players. Earlier go-to-market for the NFT platform relied on Monstercat's artist roster and fan base, a Substack editorial series, Twitter and Discord community channels, secondary-market listings on OpenSea, and appearances at Web3 events such as NFT LA.
Roblox game creators building worlds and Roblox players seeking music and music-linked avatar items; previously, music fans and collectors of Monstercat artists' work, and the artists themselves seeking additional revenue streams.
Geography
Described in 2022 as a Canada-based platform; the corporate entity is identified on the website as RELICSxyz INC.
History
Relics.xyz was introduced in 2022 as the debut NFT platform of electronic music record label Monstercat, developed by Monstercat co-founder and CEO Mike Darlington and based in Canada. The platform sold music collectibles combining a full-length song with a unique visual, and it appeared at the NFT LA conference in March 2022. It also published a 'Beyond the Roadmap' interview series covering the artists and designers behind the collection, beginning with Half an Orange's song 'Mark Twain' from the Season 1 collection. The current site presents the company as RELICSxyz INC and positions the product around copyright-licensed music and music products for Roblox worlds.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources β announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Timeline Β· 2
launches, deals, and filingsRelics.xyz was described as record label Monstercat's debut NFT platform, where fans collect and display music collectibles ('Relics') pairing a full-length song from Monstercat's electronic music roster with a unique visual. Each Relic included a license to play the song in metaverse spaces such as Decentraland, and carried an evolving 'Gemstone Rarity' trait (Quartz, Emerald, Sapphire, Ruby, Onyx) tied to the underlying song's performance in traditional music channels. The platform was developed by Monstercat co-founder and CEO Mike Darlington, and Monstercat and Relics.xyz committed to 25x carbon sequestering for each Relic sold.
Relics.xyz took part in NFT LA, a Web3-focused conference.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
βΈResearch sources Β· 8
primary sources listed
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Frequently asked questions
- What does RELICS do?
- RELICS supplies copyright-licensed music and music-enabled products such as boomboxes, dance emotes and wearables for Roblox worlds.
- Who are RELICS's investors?
- RELICS's investors include 2 Punks Capital, Narcissus Ventures.