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---
type: entity
entity_type: decision_market
name: "Open Music: Artist-First Streaming Fundraise"
domain: internet-finance
status: failed
parent_entity: "[[open-music]]"
platform: futardio
proposal_url: "https://www.futard.io/launch/4R1peXdUehAS1aWCdnrBfLRevGktsKH2euvBLdsYXbWu"
proposal_date: 2026-03-03
resolution_date: 2026-03-04
category: fundraise
summary: "Futarchy-governed raise for Solana-based music streaming platform targeting $250K to build direct artist-to-listener payment model"
key_metrics:
raise_target: "$250,000"
total_committed: "$27,533"
fill_rate: "11%"
duration_hours: "~24"
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
---
# Open Music: Artist-First Streaming Fundraise
## Summary
Futarchy-governed fundraise for Open Music, a Solana-based music streaming platform proposing to replace Spotify's pro-rata pool model with direct listener-to-artist payments. Targeted $250K for 10-month runway but raised only $27.5K (11% of target) before entering refund status within 24 hours of launch.
## Market Data
- **Outcome:** Failed (REFUNDING)
- **Launch:** 2026-03-03
- **Closed:** 2026-03-04
- **Capital Committed:** $27,533 / $250,000 (11%)
- **Token:** 4Hj
- **Token Mint:** 4HjXkVLJhURqVcJEjnHoWBSVv1AnCzQnZ9cW7LxTmeta
- **Launch Address:** 4R1peXdUehAS1aWCdnrBfLRevGktsKH2euvBLdsYXbWu
## Proposal Details
**Use of Funds:**
- Engineering (2 devs + 1 hire): $18K/month (72%)
- Infrastructure & Solana RPC: $4K/month (16%)
- Growth & Artist Acquisition: $2K/month (8%)
- Legal, Ops & Contingency: $1K/month (4%)
- Total monthly burn: $25K
- Target runway: ~10 months
**Value Proposition:**
- Replace Spotify's pro-rata pool with direct listener-to-artist allocation
- Reduce platform cut from ~30% (Spotify) to 10%
- Increase artist revenue: $9/month (Spotify, 100 fans) → $128/month (Open Music, 100 fans)
- AI-powered sonic discovery replacing label-budget promotion
- Artist audience ownership (no platform intermediation)
**Traction:**
- MVP live at openmusic.art
- Artist upload and USDC payout functional
- Early artist onboarding in progress
- No disclosed user/artist metrics
## Significance
First entertainment/creator economy vertical on Futardio beyond DeFi and meme coins. The rapid failure (24-hour launch-to-refund) suggests futarchy-governed raises face significant variance based on product category and narrative strength. Unlike CULT's $11.4M single-day raise, Open Music failed to attract sufficient speculative or mission-aligned capital despite comparable platform mechanics.
The outcome raises questions about:
1. Whether futarchy governance adds credibility to non-financial use cases
2. Market appetite for Spotify alternatives without existing user traction
3. Minimum viable community size for successful futarchy launches
## Relationship to KB
- [[open-music]] — parent entity
- [[futardio]] — launch platform
- [[futarchy-governed-meme-coins-attract-speculative-capital-at-scale]] — counterexample
- [[internet-capital-markets-compress-fundraising-timelines]] — 24-hour feedback cycle
Topics:
- [[domains/internet-finance/_map]]

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- **2026-03-07** — Areal DAO launch: $50K target, raised $11,654 (23.3%), REFUNDING status by 2026-03-08 — first documented failed futarchy-governed fundraise on platform
- **2026-03-04** — [[seekervault]] fundraise launched targeting $75,000, closed next day with only $1,186 (1.6% of target) in refunding status
- **2026-03-03**[[futardio-open-music-fundraise]] failed: Open Music raised only $27.5K/$250K (11%) before refunding, first entertainment vertical launch
- **2026-03-03**Open Music launch: $27,533 raised against $250K target (11%), entered REFUNDING status within 24 hours — first documented substantive project failure on platform
## Competitive Position
- **Unique mechanism**: Only launch platform with futarchy-governed accountability and treasury return guarantees
- **vs pump.fun**: pump.fun is memecoin launch (zero accountability, pure speculation). Futardio is ownership coin launch (futarchy governance, treasury enforcement). Different categories despite both being "launch platforms."

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key_metrics:
raise_target: "$250,000"
total_committed: "$27,533"
fill_rate: "11%"
launch_date: "2026-03-03"
refund_date: "2026-03-04"
oversubscription_ratio: 0.11
monthly_burn: "$25,000"
team_size: "2 full-stack developers"
projected_runway: "10 months"
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
---
# Open Music
Artist-first music streaming platform built on Solana that attempted to replace Spotify's pro-rata pool model with direct listener-to-artist payments. Launched futarchy-governed fundraise on Futardio in March 2026, raising only $27.5K of $250K target before entering refund status within 24 hours.
Artist-first music streaming platform on Solana that replaces Spotify's pro-rata pool model with direct listener-to-artist payments. Attempted futarchy-governed fundraise on Futardio that failed to reach minimum threshold.
## Overview
Open Music proposed a subscription streaming model where each subscriber's payment goes only to artists they personally listened to that month, rather than being pooled across all platform streams. The platform claimed this would increase artist payouts from ~$9/month (Spotify, 100 fans) to ~$128/month (Open Music, 100 fans) by eliminating the pro-rata dilution effect and reducing platform cut from ~30% to 10%.
The team consisted of two full-stack developers building end-to-end product including Solana payment infrastructure, AI-powered sonic discovery, and artist dashboard. MVP was live at openmusic.art with basic upload and payment functionality.
The futarchy-governed raise targeted $250K for ~10 months runway at $25K/month burn (72% engineering, 16% infrastructure, 8% growth, 4% ops/legal). The launch failed to attract sufficient capital, suggesting either market skepticism of the direct payment model's viability against Spotify's network effects, or insufficient community/artist traction to validate the thesis.
Open Music built a direct payment streaming model where each subscriber's payment goes only to artists they personally listened to that month, rather than being pooled globally. The platform claimed this would pay artists ~$128/month per 100 fans versus Spotify's ~$9/month. Had live MVP at openmusic.art with artist upload and payment functionality. Raised only 11% of $250K target through Futardio launch before entering refund status.
## Timeline
- **2025-Q4** — MVP launched at openmusic.art with artist upload and USDC payout functionality
- **2026-03-03** — Futarchy-governed fundraise launched on Futardio targeting $250K
- **2026-03-04** — Fundraise closed in REFUNDING status with only $27,533 committed (11% of target)
- **2026-03-03** — Futardio fundraise launched targeting $250K for 10-month runway
- **2026-03-04** — Fundraise closed in REFUNDING status with $27,533 committed (11% of target)
## Relationship to KB
- [[futardio]] — launch platform
- [[futarchy-governed-meme-coins-attract-speculative-capital-at-scale]] — counterexample: non-meme utility project failed to attract capital
- [[internet-capital-markets-compress-fundraising-timelines]] — 24-hour launch-to-refund cycle demonstrates rapid market feedback
Topics:
- [[domains/internet-finance/_map]]
- [[domains/entertainment/_map]]
- [[futardio]] — fundraising platform
- [[futarchy-variance-creates-portfolio-problem-because-mechanism-selects-both-top-performers-and-worst-performers-simultaneously]] — exemplifies downside variance
- Contrasts with [[futardio-cult-raised-11-4-million-in-one-day-through-futarchy-governed-meme-coin-launch]] as failed launch on same platform

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event_type: launch
processed_by: rio
processed_date: 2026-03-11
enrichments_applied: ["futarchy-governed-meme-coins-attract-speculative-capital-at-scale.md", "internet-capital-markets-compress-fundraising-timelines.md", "futardio.md"]
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extraction_model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5"
extraction_notes: "Failed futarchy-governed fundraise for music streaming platform. Significant as first entertainment vertical on Futardio and counterexample to CULT's $11.4M success. No novel claims about futarchy mechanics, but provides important enrichment data on category variance and capital attraction. Entity extraction includes both company (Open Music) and decision market (the fundraise itself) per schema requirements."
extraction_notes: "Failed futarchy launch providing counter-evidence to meme coin capital attraction thesis. No novel claims extracted — primary value is enrichment data showing futarchy variance and platform evolution toward traditional fundraising disclosure standards. Open Music had substantive product and team but failed to attract capital, contrasting with CULT's meme coin success on same platform."
---
## Launch Details
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## Key Facts
- Open Music raised $27,533 of $250,000 target (11% fill rate) on Futardio (2026-03-03)
- Open Music fundraise entered REFUNDING status within 24 hours of launch
- Open Music proposed $25K/month burn rate with 72% allocated to engineering
- Open Music claimed 10% platform cut vs Spotify's ~30%
- Open Music MVP live at openmusic.art with basic upload/payout functionality
- Open Music team: 2 full-stack developers, targeting hire of 3rd developer
- Open Music MVP live at openmusic.art with artist upload and USDC payout functionality
- Spotify paid average artist $0.003 per stream in 2025, took $20B revenue
- Open Music claimed 100 fans would pay artist ~$128/month vs Spotify's ~$9/month
- Team: 2 full-stack developers, planned to hire 3rd with raise funds
- Proposed capital allocation: 72% engineering, 16% infrastructure/RPC, 8% growth, 4% legal/ops
- Token: 4Hj, mint address 4HjXkVLJhURqVcJEjnHoWBSVv1AnCzQnZ9cW7LxTmeta
- Launch address: 4R1peXdUehAS1aWCdnrBfLRevGktsKH2euvBLdsYXbWu