The Orbeats $ORB music economy

Abstract

Orbeats is a music application built around a simple idea: the people who spend time with music — listeners, curators and artists — should share in the value that time creates. Today, Orbeats is a task platform where members earn the $ORB token by completing music-related tasks such as training AI models on music, music quizzes and video tasks. Curated Orbeats playlists can play in the background while members work, purely for enjoyment.

The platform is funded by real revenue: artists and labels pay for placements in the playlists our community keeps on during long task sessions. That revenue supports the token economy.

After the token launch, Orbeats transforms into a full music streaming platform. Artists upload music for free and are paid in $ORB. Listeners stream for free or with Premium, and earn $ORB for listening, ranking and curating music inside the Orbeats app.

1. The problem

Artists are underpaid

On today's dominant streaming services, the average payout per stream is a fraction of a cent, paid out months later and filtered through labels, distributors and aggregators. Most independent artists never earn enough to cover the cost of recording their music.

Listeners create value and receive none of it

Listening data, playlist curation, skips, saves and ratings are the signals that drive the whole music industry's recommendation engines. Listeners generate that data for free.

Discovery is pay-to-play and opaque

Independent artists struggle to reach real listeners. Promotion is expensive, often bot-driven and impossible to verify. Artists need audiences that actually spend time with their music.

AI needs human musical judgement

Music AI models need large volumes of high-quality human labels — genre, mood, tempo, quality and preference. That work is valuable but rarely rewarded fairly.

2. The Orbeats solution

Orbeats connects these problems into one economy, built in two phases:

• Phase 1 — Task platform (live, private alpha): members earn $ORB by completing music tasks. Artists buy placements in community playlists. Revenue enters the ecosystem.
• Phase 2 — Orbeats streaming (after token launch): the app becomes a full streaming service where artists upload for free and get paid in $ORB, and listeners earn $ORB for listening, rating and curating.

Phase 1 builds the community, the revenue stream and the catalogue of artist relationships that Phase 2 depends on. Nothing about Phase 2 is required for Phase 1 to work on its own.

3. The platform today

3.1 Music tasks

Members earn $ORB by completing tasks. Task categories include:

• AI music training — labelling tracks by genre, mood, energy and quality, comparing two tracks, and flagging AI-generated content. These labels help train and evaluate music AI.
• Music quizzes — recognising artists, genres, eras and instruments.
• Video tasks — watching selected YouTube, TikTok and other video content.
• Community tasks — following Orbeats channels and partner playlists, and inviting friends.

3.2 Background playlists — not a reward

Orbeats provides curated playlists, currently on Spotify, that members can play in the background while completing tasks. Listening to these playlists, or to any other external music platform, does not earn $ORB. The playlists exist so the work is enjoyable — rewards come from completed and verified tasks only.

3.3 Submit your music

Artists can submit their own music to be considered for Orbeats playlists through the Promote Music page. Every submission is reviewed by the Orbeats team.

3.4 Invite-only access & referrals

During the alpha, Orbeats is invite-only. Each member receives a personal invite code with a cap of 10 referrals. Each successful referral gives the inviter a permanent +10% boost to their own mining, capped at +100% for 10 referrals and added to any level boost. This replaces revenue sharing; no share of the referred member’s earnings is paid to the inviter. Task rewards and external-platform background listening are unaffected. Referring fake accounts may result in a ban and the loss of all earned $ORB.

3.5 Leaderboards

Daily, weekly and all-time leaderboards rank the most active members and are used for community competitions.

4. Revenue model

Orbeats is designed to be funded by real demand rather than token emissions alone.

4.1 Playlist placements

Artists and labels pay for placements in Orbeats community playlists. Members keep these playlists on for entire task sessions, which gives artists long, repeated listening from a real audience. Pricing is agreed individually per campaign.

4.2 AI data partnerships

Human-labelled music data produced by AI training tasks can be licensed to companies building music AI.

4.3 Future revenue (Phase 2)

• Premium subscriptions on the Orbeats streaming platform.
• Promoted releases and in-app artist campaigns.
• Marketplace fees on artist and fan products.

4.4 How revenue supports the token

A share of platform revenue is directed back into the $ORB economy — for example through token buybacks, the rewards pool and liquidity. The exact split will be published before launch.

5. The $ORB token

$ORB is the native currency of the Orbeats ecosystem. Its utility grows across both phases:

• Rewards — paid for completed tasks, and in Phase 2 for listening, ranking and curating.
• Artist payouts — artists are paid in $ORB for streams on Orbeats.
• Promotion — artists can pay for placements and campaigns in $ORB.
• Premium — subscriptions payable in $ORB.
• Governance — holders vote on playlist curation rules, reward rates and treasury use.
• Staking — stake $ORB for boosted rewards and to back artists you believe in.

Before the token launch, $ORB earned in the app is recorded as an in-app balance. At launch, balances are intended to convert to tokens under rules that will be published in advance.

6. Tokenomics

Draft allocation — final figures will be confirmed before the token generation event.

Emission principles

• Rewards are released gradually from the community pool, with decreasing emissions over time.
• Team and advisor tokens are locked and vested over multiple years.
• Revenue-funded buybacks offset emissions as the platform grows.
• Anti-abuse rules (rate caps, verification, invite limits) protect the rewards pool from farming.

7. Phase 2: Orbeats streaming

After the token launch, Orbeats becomes a music streaming platform of its own.

7.1 For artists

• Upload music for free — no distributor required.
• Get paid in $ORB for streams, with transparent on-chain payouts.
• Faster payouts than traditional streaming services.
• Direct relationships with fans through tips, releases and campaigns.

7.2 For listeners

• Listen for free, or upgrade to Premium.
• Earn $ORB for listening, ranking tracks, discovering new artists and curating playlists — inside the Orbeats app.
• Help decide what gets promoted through community rankings.

7.3 The flywheel

More artists bring more music. More music brings more listeners. More listeners create more revenue and more ranking data, which pays artists and listeners — and attracts more artists.

8. Integrity & anti-abuse

• Server-side verification — rewards are credited by the server, never by the browser.
• Time caps — credited activity can never exceed real elapsed time.
• Attention checks — periodic checks confirm a real person is present.
• Invite limits — 10 referrals per member prevents mass account farming.
• Phase 2 stream validation — bot detection and per-account limits before any stream pays.

9. Roadmap

10. Governance

Orbeats will move gradually toward community governance. $ORB holders will vote on reward rates, artist fund grants, curation rules and treasury use, while the core team remains responsible for security and operations during the early phases.

11. Risks & disclaimer

This whitepaper is for information only and is not an offer to sell securities or a solicitation of investment. $ORB is intended as a utility token for use within the Orbeats ecosystem. Plans, figures and timelines may change. Crypto assets are volatile and regulation differs between countries.

Orbeats is not affiliated with Spotify, YouTube, TikTok or any other platform mentioned.