Frequently Asked
Questions

SoundMint is where artists keep their music, work on it with collaborators, and release it straight to fans. The Studio holds every file and every version of a song, with comments and a split sheet. When a song is ready, you press it to the Crate, where fans pay to collect it. SoundMint keeps a flat 5% of each sale.

Press "Get started" and sign in with email, Google, a phone number or a passkey (Face ID or Touch ID). Pick a username and you are in. There is nothing to install.

Yes. The Free plan includes 50 GB of storage, 50 audio files, 8 tracks, 3 albums and 2 presses a month. Creator ($8 a month) gives you 2 TB, no limit on files, tracks or albums, and 15 presses a month. Pro ($19 a month) gives you unlimited storage and 40 presses a month. Every plan pays the same 5% on sales: upgrading buys room, never a better cut.

No. You upload music, invite collaborators and press a release. The technology that records who made a song and who is owed what runs underneath, and you never have to set anything up for it.

Open the album in the Studio, go to Release, and work through the checklist: the songs, the cover, the details, who gets paid and the price. Then sign and press it to the Crate. Pressing seals the master with a public, tamper-evident record of who made it and when, and opens it to fans.

You set the price. SoundMint keeps a flat 5% of each sale. Of the rest, 90% goes to the people on the song's split sheet and 10% to the song's co-owners. You start as the only co-owner, so unless you sell part of the song to fans, the whole 95% is yours. Earnings build up in the Studio and you can claim them whenever you like. They are paid in USDC, a digital dollar.

Audio: WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, AAC, M4A, OGG and more. Upload lossless files (WAV, AIFF or FLAC) for anything you plan to release; the Studio makes a lighter copy for listening on the go. For covers, a square JPG or PNG works best.

Invite your collaborators to the song and agree the percentages on its split sheet. Every party signs, and any change reopens the signatures, so everyone signs the version that is actually released. When fans collect the song, each sale is divided by the signed sheet. Nobody has to invoice anybody.

Yes. Releasing on SoundMint does not lock you in. Your files are yours to download and release through any distributor. Many artists sell to fans here and stream everywhere else.

Find a song on the Crate and press Collect. Sign in with email, Google or a passkey, then pay by card or with USDC you already hold. Card payments are handled by Coinbase and have a $5 minimum; anything left over stays in your account for your next collect.

The full song, in your collection to play any time. Your money goes to the artist and the people they made it with, minus SoundMint's 5%.

No. The artist sets the price before release, and once the first fan collects, it is locked for good. Nobody who comes later pays more, and the artist cannot raise it.

The record of every release, and of who collected it, is kept on a public blockchain that SoundMint does not control, so it outlasts us. Artists can download their own files at any time. Playing a collected song runs through SoundMint today.

Base, a network built by Coinbase. Releases, ownership and sales are recorded there. You never handle it directly: you sign in with email, Google or a passkey, and pay by card.

No. Signing in with email, Google, a phone number or a passkey sets one up for you. If you already use a wallet such as MetaMask or Coinbase Wallet, you can sign in with it instead.

Your works in progress, stems and drafts are stored privately on Amazon Web Services, encrypted at rest. Only you and the people you share them with can open them.

When you press a release, the master is encrypted and stored on IPFS, a public storage network. Without the key it is noise; collectors are the ones who can play it.

Every pressed master carries a seal: a fingerprint of the exact audio, tied to the release and recorded publicly with the time it was made, which anyone can check. Songs you send by share link are watermarked for that link, so a leaked copy can be traced to the link it came from. The seal is a record of authorship, not a copyright registration.