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+title: "Futardio: Open Music fundraise goes live"
+author: "futard.io"
+url: "https://www.futard.io/launch/4R1peXdUehAS1aWCdnrBfLRevGktsKH2euvBLdsYXbWu"
+date: 2026-03-03
+domain: internet-finance
+format: data
+status: unprocessed
+tags: [futardio, metadao, futarchy, solana]
+event_type: launch
+---
+
+## Launch Details
+- Project: Open Music
+- Description: Spotify took $20B last year. You got $0.003 per stream. Open Music fixes the math.
+- Funding target: $250,000.00
+- Total committed: $27,533.00
+- Status: Refunding
+- Launch date: 2026-03-03
+- URL: https://www.futard.io/launch/4R1peXdUehAS1aWCdnrBfLRevGktsKH2euvBLdsYXbWu
+
+## Team / Description
+
+# Open Music — Artist-First Streaming on Solana
+
+## The Problem
+
+Spotify made $20 billion last year. The average artist got $0.003 per stream.
+
+That's not a royalty. That's a rounding error.
+
+The pro-rata pool model means your streams compete against every other stream on the platform. 
+The top 1% extracts most of the value. Everyone else gets a mystery deposit and no explanation.
+
+Artists don't own their audience. They don't know who's listening. 
+They can't contact their fans. The platform owns that relationship — and rents it back to you via algorithm.
+
+Discovery is pay-to-play. Label money gets pushed. Independent artists fight for scraps.
+
+**This isn't a flawed system. It's a system working exactly as designed — just not for you.**
+
+---
+
+## The Solution
+
+Open Music replaces the pool with a direct model.
+
+Every subscriber's payment goes **only** to the artists they personally listened to that month. 
+Not split across millions of tracks. Directly to you, proportional to your listeners' time.
+
+| | Spotify | Open Music |
+|---|---|---|
+| Model | Pro-rata global pool | Your listeners only |
+| Platform cut | ~30% | 10% |
+| Payout breakdown | None | Full — per listener |
+| Payout method | Bank (high minimums) | USD wallet + USDC / Solana |
+
+### What 100 fans actually pays you:
+- **Spotify:** ~$9/month
+- **Open Music:** ~$128/month
+
+The difference isn't a rounding error. It's a different system entirely.
+
+### Three shifts that matter:
+
+**01 — Money flows directly to you**
+No pool. No mystery. Your listeners' subscription goes to you based on their listening, every cycle.
+
+**02 — Your audience is yours**
+You see who's listening, who paid you, and how much. No black box. No algorithm controlling your reach.
+
+**03 — Discovery based on sound, not budget**
+AI-powered sonic similarity matches your music to listeners based on what it actually sounds like. 
+No promoted slots. No gatekeepers. No label budget required.
+
+---
+
+## Traction
+
+- MVP is live at [openmusic.art](https://openmusic.art)
+- Artists can upload and receive payments today
+- Early community forming — artists onboarding as co-builders, not beta testers
+- Built on Solana — payouts in USD wallet + USDC
+
+---
+
+## Team
+
+Two full-stack developers with end-to-end ownership of the product — 
+from Solana payment infrastructure to the AI discovery layer to the artist dashboard.
+
+Raise funds will be used to bring on a third developer to accelerate delivery.
+
+No VC. No label. No outside agenda. Built by people who were tired of waiting for the industry to fix itself.
+
+---
+
+## Use of Funds
+
+**Raise target: $250,000**
+**Monthly burn: ~$25,000**
+**Runway: ~10 months**
+
+| Category | Monthly | % |
+|---|---|---|
+| Engineering (2 devs + 1 hire) | $18,000 | 72% |
+| Infrastructure & Solana RPC | $4,000 | 16% |
+| Growth & Artist Acquisition | $2,000 | 8% |
+| Legal, Ops & Contingency | $1,000 | 4% |
+
+Capital is lean by design. Every dollar goes toward shipping and artist onboarding — 
+not marketing spend or vanity metrics.
+
+---
+
+## Roadmap & Milestones
+
+### Q2 2025 — Foundation
+- [ ] Stable artist upload + payout flow
+- [ ] Direct fan-to-artist payment model live
+- [ ] 50 founding artists onboarded
+- [ ] Solana USDC payout integration
+
+### Q3 2025 — Discovery
+- [ ] AI sonic similarity engine (v1)
+- [ ] Listener-facing discovery feed
+- [ ] Artist dashboard: who paid, how much, per cycle
+- [ ] Fan subscription management
+
+### Q4 2025 — Scale
+- [ ] Mobile-optimized experience
+- [ ] Artist analytics + audience ownership tools
+- [ ] 500 active artists
+- [ ] Governance layer + OM token utility
+
+### Q1 2026 — Ecosystem
+- [ ] Open API for third-party integrations
+- [ ] Label / collective tooling
+- [ ] Cross-platform artist identity (wallet-linked)
+- [ ] 2,000+ artists, measurable payout delta vs Spotify
+
+---
+
+## Market & Differentiation
+
+**Target market:**
+- Independent artists with existing listeners (1K–100K monthly streams)
+- Solana-native creators and music NFT communities
+- Fans who want their subscription to actually reach their artists
+
+**Why now:**
+The creator economy backlash against platform extraction is at a peak. 
+Artists are actively looking for alternatives. The infrastructure (Solana, USDC, AI) 
+now makes a direct model viable at scale for the first time.
+
+**Competitive edge:**
+
+| | Spotify | Bandcamp | Sound.xyz | Open Music |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Direct payout model | ✗ | Partial | Partial | ✓ |
+| Subscription-based | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
+| AI sonic discovery | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
+| Artist owns audience | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
+| Onchain / Solana | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
+
+No one else combines the subscription model, direct payout, 
+AI discovery, and audience ownership in a single platform.
+
+**That's the moat.**
+
+## Links
+
+- Website: https://openmusic.art
+- Twitter: https://x.com/openmusic_art
+
+## Raw Data
+
+- Launch address: `4R1peXdUehAS1aWCdnrBfLRevGktsKH2euvBLdsYXbWu`
+- Token: 4Hj (4Hj)
+- Token mint: `4HjXkVLJhURqVcJEjnHoWBSVv1AnCzQnZ9cW7LxTmeta`
+- Version: v0.7
+- Closed: 2026-03-04