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Currents & Waves

Coming Soon

SWIM’s commerce infrastructure is live. What comes next builds on the same foundation — more surfaces for merchants to reach buyers, more ways for buyers to participate, more channels for value to flow.

Currents

Currents is SWIM’s publishing platform — a merchant-owned newsletter and content channel, sitting alongside Streams at /currents/:slug. Think Substack, but the merchant controls the subscriber relationship and the revenue. Currents is designed for merchants who have something to say as well as something to sell: long-form product stories, release announcements, community updates.

Currents is not blogging for its own sake. It’s a way for merchants to build a relationship with their buyers over time, deepen trust, and give the Drop economy a narrative thread.

Waves

Waves is the music, video, and film vertical — a separate surface for audio and visual creators at /waves/:slug/tracks/:id. Licensing mechanics for creative work are fundamentally different from physical and digital goods, so Waves has its own track-based architecture. Artists can sell exclusive releases, early access, and licensing rights through the same Drop economy that powers Streams.

What else is coming

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  • Live events — tickets, virtual event access, and real-time experiences. Architecture is under review — may be an offer type within Streams or a dedicated Waves sub-surface.
  • Expanded payment methods — additional payment processors beyond the initial set, including more crypto rails and bank-direct options, in service of the Payment Plurality pillar.
  • Governance tooling — the first merchant voting mechanisms for platform policy decisions, as described in Modular Governance.

The water keeps moving. Stay close.