A million streams pays for lunch. A busy chart pays rent.
Launch a coin for any artist on Spotify. Every trade pays a 1% fee, and 80% of it routes to a vault keyed to that artist — which they can claim whenever they turn up. They hold no tokens and sign up for nothing.
The artist is not asked, notified or required to approve anything. That is deliberate, and both the argument and the cost are set out below.
Where the money goes
Every launchpad already takes a fee. We did not invent one or raise one. We changed who ends up holding it.
Someone picks an artist
Any artist with a Spotify page. The coin launches on a bonding curve and trades like anything else on the chain.
The vault is keyed to the Spotify artist ID
Not the display name. Artists rename constantly, and two acts can share a name — the ID in the artist URL never changes and belongs to exactly one act.
Fees accumulate with nobody watching
The vault fills from the first trade. Nobody has to claim it, monitor it, or know it exists for it to keep filling.
The artist proves the page and takes it
Verification runs through Spotify for Artists — whoever already controls that page proves it, then withdraws to any wallet.
What 0.8% is worth next to a stream
Drag it. This is multiplication, not a forecast — a coin nobody trades pays nobody, and most coins are not traded.
The comparison that does the work
A stream pays a rights-holder somewhere around $0.003, and the artist's own share of that is smaller again after the label and the distributor. One ordinary trading day on a coin nobody has heard of can out-earn a number of streams most artists will never see.
And the catch
Volume is the whole story. At $2,000 a day this is a coffee. The floor is not that it pays well — it is that it accrues with nobody doing anything, and it waits.
You hold nothing, so you can lose nothing
Zero tokens, ever
No allocation, no vesting, no share of supply. You receive the fee, never the coin — so there is nothing for you to sell and nobody can accuse you of dumping on your own fans.
No label, no split, no recoupment
This is not royalty income. It does not pass through a distributor, it is not recoupable against an advance, and nobody takes a cut on the way.
What it does cost you
Your name on a chart you didn't choose. A coin bearing your name that collapses is not neutral for you, even though you never touched it. That is real and we are not pretending otherwise.
Coins
Example rows, marked as such. Real ones appear here once the launchpad is live.
| Artist | Coin | Vault balance | Status |
|---|
The three that are specific to music
Open source had one maintainer and one repo. Music has a rights stack, and pretending otherwise would be the fastest way to get this wrong.
Whoever holds the Spotify page may not be the artist
A Spotify for Artists account is frequently controlled by a label, a manager or a distributor rather than the person who made the record. Verifying the page proves control of the page — it does not prove who should get the money, and for a lot of catalogue those are different people.
An "artist" is usually several people
Performer, writer, producer, featured guest. Music royalties are a mess precisely because that split is contested. A vault keyed to one artist ID pays one party and has no opinion about the other three. We do not have a good answer.
Nothing is deployed or audited
No contract address on 4663 or 46630, and no external audit. Anything claiming to be a live Busk today is not us.
Coins launch without permission, and there is no opt-out
Requiring opt-in first recreates the problem — it asks an artist to trust a crypto product before any money exists. The cost of that choice is that an artist who wants none of this currently has no button to press. If that's you, say so.