# Open Music ($OM) — Backable raise > Machine-readable companion to https://www.backable.biz/raises/4R1peXdUehAS1aWCdnrBfLRevGktsKH2euvBLdsYXbWu > Deal terms and escrow figures come from onchain and API records. The pitch > is the founder's own frozen text — Backable is permissionless and nobody > reviewed it. Listing is not endorsement. Spotify took $20B last year. You got $0.003 per stream. Open Music fixes the math. ## Status - state: CLAIMABLE - goal (hard cap on what the company receives): $250,000 - committed: $27,533 across 13 backers - raised (received by the company): $0 - claimable back by backers: $27,533 ## The deal - token price at goal (everyone pays this): $0.025 - MCAP at open (team and existing-investor tokens excluded): $322,500 - FDV (all tokens, locked included): $645,000 - total supply (fixed; minting needs a market-approved proposal): 25,800,000 - supply split: backers 10,000,000 (38.8%) · liquidity 2,900,000 (11.2%) · team 12,900,000 (50.0%) - share of supply sold to backers: 38.8% - team lock before any unlock: 18 months - unlock ladder (3-month TWAP must hold each price): 2x → $0.05 · 4x → $0.1 · 8x → $0.2 · 16x → $0.4 · 32x → $0.8 - monthly budget after funding (onchain ceiling): $25,000 - at close (escrow releases): $200,000 to treasury (80.0%) · $50,000 seeds liquidity - runway at that budget: ~8.0 months ## Protections (identical for every raise) - Approved aligned parties are selected per raise. The raise page lists selected wallets at $0 until they commit, then updates their gross commitments before refunds. - Commitments sit in escrow; the team receives $0 unless the goal is met. - Goal missed → every backer can claim 100% of principal. The claim is a transaction the backer sends themselves; nothing arrives automatically, nobody can refuse it, and there is no deadline. - Oversubscribed → the goal is split pro rata by weight: time in escrow × early-fill boost × Ownership Score multiplier (none = no extra weight, log scale to a fixed cap, read from the committing wallet's combined score at close; linked wallets score 0). Nobody is approved for more than they committed; the rest is claimable the same way. - After funding, spending above the published monthly budget requires a proposal decided by decision markets, not by the team. - Tokens are not equity and may be worth nothing. ## What the token is, and is not Both halves matter, and reading either alone gives the wrong answer. **It is not** a security, equity, loan or ownership interest. Holders have no legal title to any asset, no claim on revenue, no fiduciary duty owed to them, and no ownership of the Cayman segregated portfolio that holds the company's IP. There is no promise of return, buyback or future utility. **It is** a governance claim in a decision market. The treasury is governed by that market rather than by the team, spending above the published monthly budget has to pass it, and the segregated portfolio is contractually required to abide by certain of its determinations. The market can also stop funding the company and direct the money elsewhere. So "the DAO controls X" and "holders own nothing" are both accurate: the first is control through the mechanism, the second is legal title. **The mechanism is the top of the stack.** The constraints above are the structure's current settings, not its ceiling — the operating documents are themselves subject to the decision market, within the scope those documents define. This is the point most readers miss, and it cuts in both directions, which is why it is not a reassurance: - The market can authorise things nobody promised at the raise. - The market can also withdraw things a backer assumed. It "may revoke funds out of the pool at any time, or may cease using the funds for the currently contemplated project" (fundraise terms, paragraph 5). - Governance power is not legal effect. The market deciding to do a thing does not by itself make that thing lawful or effective; anything with its own regulatory path still has to travel it. The correct reading is therefore not "the page and the terms contradict each other" but "nothing here is fixed except the escrow and the claim." Score the raise on that basis. A page describing what the mechanism could authorise is not making a promise; a page claiming holders *own* an asset outright is overstating it, and that is still worth flagging. ## Diligence signals - disclosure score (mechanical — counts what the founder chose to show, not idea quality): 2/7 — missing: six required answers, market size cites a source, a metric with a date, a founder-stated risk, a named, linked team member, demo, docs or code linked - B1 transparency filing: filed - concentration: top wallet DQKKzksR2pmDg5JNMFWZyN66qzJqQ716WDLdthP3tHme holds 18.2% of committed capital across 13 backers - vetting: none — anyone can publish a raise for $15; do your own research - investors on record before this raise: none ## Founder claims (unverified — absence is itself a disclosure) - edge, in the founder's words: not provided - founder commitment (self-stated): not stated — that silence is an answer - founder-stated TAM: not provided - metrics: none provided ## Links (founder-provided — verify control yourself) - website: https://openmusic.art - x: https://x.com/openmusic_art ## Onchain - raise: 4R1peXdUehAS1aWCdnrBfLRevGktsKH2euvBLdsYXbWu (v0.7) - token mint: 4HjXkVLJhURqVcJEjnHoWBSVv1AnCzQnZ9cW7LxTmeta - quote mint: EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v - base vault: f1u893hJ3DjHXfBu6ab1VrRSjNpUEQPzaXCdwXPfG9U - quote vault: 9RUPGJEADLqErKLWssV4zRt6XX4ZPKJaEyCEJWyeSA2f - authority: LRrTQLqFzAPxjschuAKQAqH1XHBuBgHqwhybENStARt ## Founder's pitch (verbatim, frozen at publish, unreviewed) # 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.** ## Raise terms (verbatim, as printed on the raise page) By contributing to the fundraise for tokens ("Tokens"), you acknowledge and agree to the [Backable Terms of Service](https://www.backable.biz/terms). Without limiting the foregoing, you also acknowledge and agree to all of the following information, terms and conditions: The above descriptions, terms, and other content were created, determined, and supplied exclusively by prospective project contributors related to the ICO and are being republished on Backable for convenience of reference only, as third-party content. Backable is a technology platform being used by the prospective project contributors, and the owners and operators of Backable and their respective affiliates are not the persons creating, endorsing, sponsoring, or discretionarily operating the ICO. Backable and its owners and operators and their respective affiliates assume no (and by participating in the ICO or otherwise using Backable, you agree that they shall not have any) responsibility or liability for the accuracy or completeness of the above descriptions, terms and other content, or any other representations, statements, opinions, projections, terms, or information made by or on behalf of the prospective project contributors in connection with the ICO. The following terms and conditions apply between you, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, both the owners and operators (and their affiliates) of Backable or MetaDAO and the prospective ICO project contributors and related legal entity(ies) and their respective affiliates: 1. **No Guarantees.** The Tokens are provided on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis. Participation in the fundraise does not come with any guarantees, promises, or assurances of any kind, including, but not limited to, financial return, performance, future utility, or access to any platform, product, or service. 2. **Not an Offer of Securities.** The Tokens do not represent a security, equity, loan, or ownership interest in any entity or project. Participation in this fundraise is not intended to be, and shall not be construed as, an offering of securities, nor does it constitute an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where such activity is unlawful. You are responsible to refrain from participation in the ICO if your jurisdiction does not permit such participation. 3. **Final Sale, Except As The Program Provides.** Except for the amounts the escrow program itself makes claimable as described in paragraph 7, contributions made as part of the fundraise are final. No party has the discretion to refund you, and you will not be entitled to a refund or compensation on any other basis, including loss of value or inability to use the Tokens. Where the program does make an amount claimable, no party has the discretion to withhold it either. 4. **No Liability for Losses.** To the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws, neither the organizers of this fundraise nor any of their affiliates, agents, advisors, officers, or representatives shall be liable for any direct or indirect loss or damage you may suffer, including without limitation: trading losses, loss of data, revenue, profit, or opportunity; or any errors, delays, or technical failures related to the fundraise or the Tokens. 5. **Nature of Token MetaDAO Platform ICOs.** You acknowledge and agree that the ICO is a transaction entirely by and among ICO participants, in which such participants contribute certain blockchain tokens into the sole control or custody of Solana-based "smart contracts" or "programs" as a method of establishing a decentralized autonomous decision market oriented toward the research, development, promotion and/or utilization of the above-described project. The ensuing market oracle–sometimes also referred to as a type of "DAO"-- is intended to govern both the deposited tokens and aspects of the related project, using "[Futarchy](https://docs.metadao.fi/governance/overview)". These smart contracts or programs exist independently of Backable or MetaDAO, on the Solana blockchain, and do not have a legal "owner" or "custodian", but instead will be controlled by the market-based governance process embedded in the decision market protocol, as expressed in the code of the smart contracts/programs. The deposited tokens do not represent a capital investment in any legal entity (including the legal entity referred to in the following paragraph) or group of managers or entrepreneurs, and the decision market may revoke funds out of the pool at any time, or may cease using the funds for the currently contemplated project or using them to pay the currently contemplated prospective project contributors, and may instead use them for other purposes, as determined by the decision market oracle aka "DAO." The current prospective project contributors will not immediately own or have any discretionary or managerial control of the deposit pool, and any related services such prospective project contributors provide will be on an independent contractor basis to the community, as determined on an ongoing basis by the decision market oracle aka "DAO." The tokens issued by the program/smart contract in exchange for deposited funds are not initially owned by, and are not being sold or offered by, Backable or MetaDAO or the prospective project contributors or any related entity(ies), but rather are issued by the smart-contract/system itself to enable ongoing functionality of the related decision market oracle aka "DAO". Any funds received from the deposit pool by the current prospective project contributors or future project contributors represent retroactive or prospective compensation for work done or to be done by such project contributors that is approved by the related decision market oracle aka "DAO", on the initiative of, and based on the managerial or entrepreneurial efforts of, participants in that market aka "DAO participants". 6. **DAO-Adjacent Entity aka BORG.** One or more members of the prospective project contributors may have established a particular type of legal entity related to the project. These entities, known as cybernetic organizations, aka 'BORGs", hold intellectual property related to the project and may receive the funds, if any, determined by the decision market oracle to be paid to the prospective project contributors as compensation for work done or to be done related to the project. BORGs contain special rules designed to provide accountability of project contributors to the community, including prohibiting the issuance of equity securities and requirements to consult the decision market oracle (sometimes on a signaling basis, sometimes on a binding basis) for decisions related to their work on the project and the related intellectual property and assets. Many of these entities are "segregated portfolios" of a Cayman Islands entity called Futarchy Governance SPC. Segregated portfolios provide separate layers of assets and liabilities within this entity, and each particular segregated portfolio is managed in the sole discretion of its "Manager(s)", subject to the terms and conditions of Futarchy Governance SPC and the Operating Agreement of that specific segregated portfolio. The ICO does not represent an investment in the SPC or segregated portfolio, and participants in the ICO and holders of the tokens being issued in the ICO do not have any legal rights in or ownership of the SPC or segregated portfolio, and are not owed any fiduciary or other duties by the participants in the SPC or segregated portfolio, but the SPC, in respect of the segregated portfolio, is legally required to abide by certain determinations of the decision market created by the ICO. Please review the project description above to determine the specific legal entity(ies) or other arrangements identified by the prospective project contributors. You hereby acknowledge and agree that you have reviewed, or had the opportunity to review, the information and documents presented or linked to from that description and acknowledge, consent to and accept the risks of all related legal entities and arrangements. 7. **Understanding the Mechanism.** This is an onchain fundraising mechanism with a fixed token supply and a stated funding goal. Commitments are not capped, but the amount the project receives is: everything committed above the goal remains the property of the participant who committed it. If the funding goal is not reached by close, every participant may reclaim the whole of their contribution. If the goal is exceeded, each participant may reclaim whatever part of their contribution did not convert into Tokens. **These amounts are claimed, not sent.** They are released by the program when you submit a claim transaction from the wallet that made the contribution. Nobody can approve, condition, delay or refuse that claim, there is no deadline for making it, and equally nobody can make it on your behalf. The same is true of the Tokens themselves in a funded raise. By participating, you confirm that you understand the [program](https://github.com/metaDAOproject/programs) and have reviewed the relevant documentation available at [https://docs.metadao.fi](https://docs.metadao.fi). By contributing or attempting to contribute to the fundraise for Tokens, you confirm that you have read, understood, and accepted the terms above. ## How the mechanism works - https://www.backable.biz/docs/how-backable-protects-you — escrow, claims, budgets in one page - https://www.backable.biz/docs/doing-your-own-research — the diligence checklist this file feeds - https://www.backable.biz/docs/reading-tokenomics — FDV, supply, unlock ladders, TWAPs - https://www.backable.biz/docs/committed-vs-raised — why committed and raised differ - https://www.backable.biz/docs/metadao-2 — MetaDAO 2.0: typed proposals and the adaptable performance package