Valt is live on testnet: own the music you love
Streaming turned listening into renting. Valt flips that: artists offer memberships that unlock their music, livestreams, and exclusive drops, and share the upside with the fans who backed them early.
Own the music you love.
Valt: turn your fans into owners
The heart of it is ownership. On Valt your music is a native Cardano token that lives in the fan’s own wallet, not a line in a company’s database. An artist spins up a membership; a fan joins and holds something real.
That changes the relationship. A listener who owns a piece of the work has a reason to care how it does, and the artist keeps a direct line to the people who backed them first, with no platform standing in between.
What streaming pays
The economics that made this necessary. These are the numbers an independent artist is working against today.
Roughly what a single play pays an artist under streaming. Valt offers another path.
Roughly the streams it takes to earn a few thousand dollars. Ownership changes the math.
On the streaming math. A per-stream payout of roughly $0.003–$0.005 is the widely reported range for the largest streaming service; exact rates vary by platform, country, and deal. The takeaway is the shape of it: it takes on the order of a million plays to earn a few thousand dollars. Valt is not anti-streaming — it is a second, ownership-based path that pays artists directly and shares the upside with fans.
What Valt does instead
Not pennies per play, but ownership that the fan actually holds.
The song token is a native Cardano asset the fan holds directly. Portable and permanent.
How ownership works
- 01
Upload your music
List your catalog and set up your artist space.
- 02
Fans buy in
Supporters take a membership and become part-owners, not just listeners.
- 03
Unlock everything
Members get your music, livestreams, and exclusive drops.
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Share the upside
Revenue flows back to the fans who backed you.
A look inside valt.digital
Your music is a native Cardano token in your own wallet, not a row in a database. Owning an artist's song is a permanent, portable key: it unlocks their fan club, demos, drops, even the door at a show, in any wallet. Nobody can revoke it.
Own it, don’t rent it.
Streaming rents you access; the day you stop paying you are locked out. On Valt, the song is yours, verified by math, not a company’s terms of service. If Valt disappeared tomorrow, your token would still be in your wallet.
Valt is live
Valt is live on Cardano. Whether you make music or love it, here is how to jump in:
- Artists: apply at valt.digital/for-artists, upload your catalog, and open your artist space.
- Fans: explore the roster, collect a song, and unlock the artist’s Valt.
Valt is part of our Project Catalyst roadmap on Cardano, built to put ownership back in artists’ hands. It is early and we are building it in the open, so tell us what is working and what is not at valt.digital/feedback. Thank you for being early.
Ian “Cullah” McCullough
Founder, Awen