Tokenomics
Fueling the World's Best Music Discovery System
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Fueling the World's Best Music Discovery System
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At the core of MixerFM’s innovative music discovery platform is the seamless integration of human-driven interactions with AI and Machine Learning algorithms, supported by a carefully crafted token economy. Whether liking a track, curating a mix playlist, or validating metadata, each user action contributes to a continuous feedback loop that refines our adaptive recommendation engine, contextual tagging system, and graph-based discovery architecture.
MixerFM’s tokenomics model rewards human-agent contributions through tokenized incentives to ensure the platform's growth and sustainability. As users engage with the platform, they provide essential human context and participate in market-driven mechanisms such as playlist staking and prediction markets (TBD), which we call TREND INSIGHTS. These mechanisms align incentives for all participants, creating a positive-sum game where users are rewarded for enhancing the discovery system, curating content, and predicting emerging trends. We want to avoid Betting on the platform, so we are still considering the best implementation approach.
In this token-driven ecosystem, every interaction contributes to the platform's evolution. Freemium Users and Subscribers provide fundamental engagement, while User Agents are empowered to improve platform quality through more profound actions such as curation, validation, and staking. Regardless of their role, each user plays an integral part in the platform’s value exchange model, which drives continuous improvement and fuels the dynamic adaptation of MixerFM’s discovery engine.
The value exchange within MixerFM revolves around three primary user types, each playing a critical role in the platform’s growth:
Freemium Users: Users interact with the platform by liking songs, following playlists, and engaging with music mixes. While they do not earn tokens or engage with blockchain-based features, their interactions help validate the quality of music content and provide valuable feedback for the platform’s recommendation engine. Freemium users benefit from the system’s continuous refinement without direct engagement in the token economy.
Subscribers: Subscribers pay a monthly fee for an ad-free experience. They contribute to the platform’s revenue model but do not participate in token-based features. However, their playlist creation and general engagement help the recommendation engine adapt to user preferences.
Human-Agents: Human-Agents from the backbone of the Human-Agent Network. For now, we consider a maximum of 1% of users on a platform to be Human-Agents, and they get maximum rewards and reward multipliers based on their rank. They are the primary drivers of the platform’s curation, validation, and moderation activities. Human-Agents ensure the quality of music discovery remains high by participating in actions such as validating AI-generated metadata, curating playlists, and engaging in meaningful discussions. These users earn tokens based on their level of contribution. Additionally, human agents can participate in Market Insights and staking on playlists, gaining additional rewards for their work and insights.
The MixerFM ecosystem ensures that value is continuously exchanged between users, the platform, and token holders, creating a positive-sum game where every participant benefits as the platform grows. The primary mechanisms for value creation and exchange include:
Curation and Validation: User Agents earn tokens for performing critical tasks such as validating low- and high-level metadata, curating high-quality playlists, and correcting AI-generated outputs. This ensures the recommendation system stays accurate and relevant.
Staking on Playlists: User Agents can stake tokens on playlists they believe will gain popularity. As these playlists receive more listens or become sponsored, the rewards are distributed among stalkers. This encourages users to identify and promote high-quality content.
Pledge and claim for Artist or User-generated content: Fans on the platform can pledge tokens to their favorite artists (emerging/established), creating a pool of value related to the artist profile. These tokens remain locked in the reserve until the artist provides exclusive content such as live show performances, behind-the-scenes videos, unreleased tracks, or personalized messages to the platform (verifiable by the user agent network.) Once the content is released, the artist can claim the tokens minus the platform fee, which will be distributed from the pledge pool. This mechanism allows fans to actively contribute to an artist’s success while incentivizing artists to engage with their superfan communities directly. This can be extended for user-generated content, for example, uploading short videos for tracks or user-generated short music videos (non-official ones but created by the fan community), which enrich platform data.
Market Insights TBA: We consider that human agents can stake tokens in prediction markets, where they forecast emerging music trends. Correct predictions earn rewards, while incorrect predictions result in token burns. This gamified approach incentivizes thoughtful predictions and deeper engagement.
Boost Playlists: Tokens can be spent to boost the visibility of selected playlists within the platform’s recommendation system. The amount of tokens used for boosting is transparently displayed to users, ensuring transparency in how content gains visibility.
Promote Content: tokens can be spent to promote individual tracks or playlists, enhancing their exposure across the platform. These features create micro-communities that support artists by boosting their content and fostering faster growth for musicians by providing them with much-needed reach. This way, we create a direct USER to ARTIST link without a need to engage artists directly.
Pledging for Artist/User-generated content: Fans can spend tokens by pledging them to artists as a sign of support. These tokens are temporarily removed from circulation until the artist claims them by releasing exclusive content. If the artist doesn’t engage, the tokens remain locked, maintaining a scarce supply within the system. This pledge system deepens the artist-fan connection, providing artists with a clear view of the potential value waiting for them when interacting with their fanbase.
Engagement Burn: A portion of tokens is burned each time users spend tokens to boost content or promote tracks. This burn mechanism ensures long-term token scarcity, aligning token value with increasing platform utility.
Prediction Burn: Incorrect predictions in the trend prediction markets lead to token burns, discouraging low-effort participation and promoting high-quality user contributions.
Locked Token Reserve: Tokens pledged to artists are temporarily removed from the circulating supply, creating a reserve that functions as a token sink until the artist claims the tokens. This mechanism effectively locks tokens out of the system, contributing to scarcity. Suppose an artist fails to engage within a set period. In that case, these tokens can either remain locked indefinitely or be burned as part of a platform policy, encouraging timely artist participation and rewarding fans for their commitment.
At the core of MixerFM’s platform is a Minimum Viable Ecosystem (MVE), which focuses on a sustainable value exchange between users. The MVE revolves around three pillars:
Freemium and Subscriber Interactions: These users generate valuable engagement data, such as session duration, likes, shares, and playlist creation, which inform the platform’s AI-driven recommendation engine.
User Validation and Curation: Human-Agents ensure that data feeding into the system is accurate, human-validated, and decentralized. They perform essential tasks such as tagging tracks, validating metadata, and moderating discussions to improve the platform’s quality. This is done trough the in App quests system.
Continuous Token Incentives: The token economy incentivizes continuous improvement of platform content. User Agents are rewarded based on the quality of their work, which enhances the accuracy and personalization of music recommendations.
Fan-Driven Pledge and Claim System: The Pledge and Claim system empowers superfans to pledge tokens to their favorite or emerging artists, creating a direct incentive for artists to engage with the platform. This feature builds a self-sustaining ecosystem where fans actively support artists, and artists are naturally drawn to the platform to claim their pledged tokens by providing exclusive content. This system promotes deeper artist-fan interactions and attracts artists without needing a traditional onboarding approach.
This simple yet effective system ensures that the ecosystem remains scalable and maintains high-quality user engagement as the platform grows.
Token Rewards for High-Quality Contributions: User Agents earn tokens for performing valuable tasks such as curating playlists, validating metadata, and participating in prediction markets. High-ranking users on leaderboards earn additional token bonuses based on their level of engagement.
Market-Driven Staking Rewards: User Agents who stake on high-performing playlists receive rewards if the playlists gain traction or become sponsored. The more engagement a playlist receives, the greater the reward for stakers.
Pledges: Fans can pledge tokens to artists, creating a pool that artists can claim by providing exclusive content like unreleased tracks or behind-the-scenes material. This system encourages both fan engagement and artist participation, driving meaningful interactions on the platform. / TBD
Human-Agents Penalties for Low-Quality Contributions: Incorrect metadata validation, spam tagging, or low-effort predictions lead to penalties such as token loss or temporary suspension from earning tokens. Human Agents who consistently submit low-quality work may have their Elite status revoked, though they can still stake on playlists.
Disincentive: If artists fail to engage by not providing content within a set period, the pledged tokens could be burned or locked indefinitely, discouraging inactivity and ensuring that only active, engaged artists benefit from fan support. / TBD
Token Burns for Incorrect Predictions: In the prediction markets, tokens are burned when users submit incorrect predictions. This mechanism ensures that participants take a thoughtful approach to their contributions, preventing gaming of the system. / TBD
MixerFM’s revenue model is designed to be sustainable, scalable, and aligned with the platform's growth, ensuring liquidity and long-term engagement. The primary revenue streams include:
The Subscription Revenue: Subscribers pay for access to premium features and exclusive content, creating a consistent revenue stream (e.g. $5.99 per month). User Agents, who play an essential role in platform curation and validation also contribute monthly, which supports platform operations and adds to the community treasury, fueling token liquidity and rewards.
Playlist Sponsorships: Sponsored playlists generate revenue through brand partnerships. A portion of this revenue is distributed to User Agents who have staked tokens on the most popular or promising playlists. This system incentivizes maintaining high-quality content, ensuring Human Agents are rewarded for their contributions. These playlists are visible to users as sponsored by who and for how much.
Token-Based Features: Users spend tokens to boost playlists, promote individual tracks, and participate in prediction markets. Additionally, the Pledge and Claim System allows fans to pledge tokens to artists, creating a pool of locked tokens that the artist can claim by releasing exclusive content. This system incentivizes both fan engagement and artist participation, driving more activity on the platform. These activities create a circular economy where tokens circulate through the ecosystem, and the built-in token burn mechanisms (such as tokens burned in prediction markets or for playlist boosts) ensure token scarcity, maintaining long-term token value and sustainability.
Exclusive Content Unlocks (Pledge and Claim): Artists can claim tokens that fans have pledged to them by providing exclusive content, such as backstage videos, photos of their scribles of songs, draft tracks files. This mechanism drives artist participation and enhances platform revenue by encouraging more token spending by superfans who want to engage and support their favorite artists.
