Keep 75% Today. 90% at Scale.
The Number Is the Number.
The first 100 artists on JackKnife get a permanent seat at the table — a founding badge, an Advisory Council seat, their name in the Constitution, and the same fair, rising split as everyone. Per-second USDC. No labels. No middlemen. Once these slots are gone, they're gone forever.
100 of 100 Founding Slots Available — Once gone, gone forever
Not here for the board? You don't need it. Release music with the same per-second payments and the same 75→90% split — no application, no approval, stay anonymous if you like.
Earnings Calculator
Avg listener streams ~80hrs/mo total across all artists. Dedicated fans spend 2-5hrs on one artist.
+$75/mo more than a signed Spotify deal — on identical listening
That's $902/year back in your pocket, today — and it only climbs
The Real Numbers
| PLATFORM | ARTIST SPLIT | PER PLAY | 500 LISTENERS × 3HR* |
|---|---|---|---|
| JackKnife (today) | 75% | $0.00362 | $93 |
| JackKnife (at 90% cap) | 90% | $0.00435 | $112 |
| Spotify (Indie) | ~70% | $0.003-0.005 | $63 |
| Spotify (Signed) | ~15-25% | $0.0004-0.0009 | $18 |
| Apple Music | ~52% | $0.005 | $59 |
| Tidal | ~55% | $0.006 | $74 |
* Based on 500 monthly listeners spending ~3 hours per month on YOUR music. Use the calculator above to model your actual listener profile.
Founding 100 Permanent Benefits
These benefits are encoded in smart contracts. They can never be revoked, diluted, or offered again.
Advisory Council Seat
Named seat on the Founding Advisory Council. Direct line to the founding team. You help decide what we build.
Founding Badge — Forever
Permanent ✦ Founding Artist badge on your profile. A mark of honor that can never be bought, sold, or granted later.
White-Glove Onboarding
Personal setup from the founding team. We migrate your catalog, set your splits, and help you notify your fans.
The Same Fair, Rising Split
You earn the exact same honest split as everyone — 75% today, climbing to 90% as we grow. No founder gets a secret rate. The number is the number, on-chain, for all.
Stats Without Surveillance
Help build the free-speech, artist-owned layer of the web. Your fans keep full rights to their privacy and their data — nothing harvested, nothing sold — and you still get honest analytics on your own work: who's listening, what's connecting, where you're growing. Sovereignty for them, insight for you.
3% Ticket Fee — Lowest in Music
Sell tickets from your artist page at a flat 3% — the same honest rate for every artist, founding or not. Ticketmaster takes ~27% of face value; Eventbrite and DICE take 10–15%. You keep 97% of every sale. Our digital roots, not a gimmick.
Your Name in the Constitution
Founding artists are named in the JackKnife Constitution — the charter that makes it physically hard for us to ever become the parasite. You were here first, on the record, forever.
Per-Second Settlement
Every verified artist is paid the second a stream ends — no pool, no quarterly wait. (Unverified uploads sit in a 30-day anti-piracy escrow; verification clears it.)
The Fair Pay Ratchet
As JackKnife grows, every artist's split improves automatically. Hardcoded in the smart contract. Can only go up.
| MILESTONE | LISTENERS | ARTIST / PLATFORM |
|---|---|---|
| Launch | 0–10K | 75/25 |
| Growth | 10K–50K | 75/25 |
| Scale | 50K–100K | 80/20 |
| Mass Adoption | 100K–500K | 82/18 |
| Market Leader | 500K–1M | 85/15 |
| Major Platform | 1M–10M | 86/14 |
| Global Contender | 10M–100M | 87/13 |
| Spotify Rival | 100M–250M | 88/12 |
| Market Dominant | 250M–500M | 89/11 |
| Fair Pay Cap | 500M+ | 90/10 |
One split for everyone — founding or not. Hardcoded on-chain to move one direction only: toward the artist.
What We're Looking For
Sweet Spot Artists:
1,000–50,000 monthly Spotify/Apple Music listeners. Active social following. Own your masters. Making $200–$2,000/month from streaming and you know you deserve more. If you have 1,000+ social followers, hitting the 50-listener threshold is trivially easy.
The Advisory Council
We're not building this FOR artists — we're building it WITH you. Every Founding member gets a permanent seat.
Direct Access
Private Founders' Channel — token-gated communication with the core dev team. Regular town halls where you speak directly with engineering. No support tickets, no AI chatbots.
YOUR FEEDBACK → NEXT RELEASE. THAT DIRECT.
Proposal Power
Founding artists can submit JackKnife Improvement Proposals (JIPs) — suggest changes to streaming payouts, UI/UX, discovery algorithms, and new features. Your voice carries weight.
THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE MUSIC SHAPE THE PLATFORM.
Specialized Input
Audio engineers focusing on mastering standards. Touring artists shaping ticketing integration. Producers defining collaboration tools. Your expertise drives your working group.
TASK FORCES BY EXPERTISE, NOT BUREAUCRACY.
Priority Discovery
Permanent verified profiles with the Founding badge. Homepage rotation for your first 6 months. Every new listener who joins JackKnife discovers you first.
YOUR MUSIC. FRONT AND CENTER. FOREVER.
Questions You're Already Asking
Claim Your Slot
100 slots. Permanent benefits. First come, first served.
100 of 100 Founding Slots Available — Once gone, gone forever
A short application, reviewed by a human — you'll hear back by email. No wallet or crypto knowledge needed to apply.
Not here for the board? You don't need it. Release music with the same per-second payments and the same 75→90% split — no application, no approval, stay anonymous if you like.
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