Creator Settlement Layer

Pay every stream.
Split without dispute.

Distribute royalties per stream on a public-chain creator app instead of holding earnings in a monthly batch. The Royalty Standard and Royalty Clearing modules apply each split, an ERC-20 token carries the payment, and the Subgraph Indexer surfaces real-time earnings for every contributor.

The Foundation

The Execution Mechanics

Turn an opaque monthly payout into a transparent, per-stream settlement every contributor can audit.

01.

Per-Stream Settlement

Replace the monthly batch. Each verified stream triggers a payment event, so a contributor's balance moves the moment their work is consumed rather than weeks after the fact.

02.

Encoded Revenue Splits

The Royalty Standard stores each contributor's percentage on-chain. When revenue arrives, the split is applied exactly as agreed, removing the human step where accuracy is usually lost.

03.

Automated Clearing

The Royalty Clearing module fans a single incoming payment out to every collaborator in one transaction, so a track with five contributors settles all five shares atomically.

04.

ERC-20 Payment Token

An ERC-20 token carries value across the app. Micropayments too small for card rails settle cheaply on-chain, making a fraction of a cent per stream economically viable.

05.

Real-Time Earnings Feed

The Subgraph Indexer exposes live earnings. A creator watches their revenue accrue stream by stream instead of waiting for a statement they cannot verify.

06.

Immutable Split Record

The agreed split is anchored before the first payment. Any later question about who was owed what is answered against a signed record, so disputes about accuracy stop.

The Royalty Lifecycle

Follow a single stream from the moment it is counted to the instant each contributor's share lands in their wallet.

Operational log system
cerulea_royalty_engine.log

10:04:11

[SYS] Initializing Royalty Split Manifest...

10:04:11

[CMD] setSplit(work: "TRK_5591", shares: [6000, 2500, 1500])

10:04:12

[AUTH] Verifying contributor wallets and total equals 10000 bps...

10:04:12

[OK] Split anchored for TRK_5591 at block 5510188.

Smart Contract Anatomy

Cerulea decomposes creator royalties into modular contracts. Each layer registers the split, meters consumption, clears payment, and exposes earnings without any platform holding funds in the dark.

Applicability Across the Spectrum

Per-stream royalty settlement is a horizontal capability. Here is how different creator businesses put transparent splits to work.

Streaming & Audio Platforms

Pay artists and collaborators the instant a track is played rather than on a monthly cycle, turning a delayed opaque payout into a live earnings feed each contributor can audit stream by stream.

Key Asset Types

  1. 1Per-Stream Payments
  2. 2Contributor Splits
  3. 3Live Earnings Feeds

Independent Creators & Bands

Encode the agreed split between writers, performers, and producers once, then let every stream settle each share automatically, ending the arguments over whether the numbers were calculated fairly.

Key Asset Types

  1. 1Band Splits
  2. 2Collaboration Shares
  3. 3Session Payouts

Label & Distribution Services

Offer artists a transparent settlement rail as a service, clearing thousands of micropayments across catalogs in real time and cutting the reconciliation overhead of a traditional accounting team.

Key Asset Types

  1. 1Catalog Payouts
  2. 2Distribution Fees
  3. 3Advance Recoupment

Network & Execution Architecture

Whether you are bridging an existing streaming platform's play data or routing native wallet-signed micropayments, Cerulea settles both against one royalty ledger.

Track A: Platform Play-Data Bridging

For established streaming services on legacy infrastructure. Verified play counts are translated into signed on-chain stream events through the API gateway automatically.

Legacy Streaming Backend

Play-Count Systems

HTTPS / REST

Cerulea API Gateway

Event Signing & Metering

WASM COMPILATION

Cerulea Royalty Chain

Shared Settlement Ledger

Track B: Native Creator App Execution

For Web3 creator apps and P2P music. A wallet-native player signs each stream event and routes micropayments directly to the public clearing layer.

Creator App / Wallet

Listener Devices

WALLET SIGNATURE

Clearing Validators

Micropayment Consensus

STATE EXECUTION

Cerulea Public L1

Live Royalty Ledger

Accelerated Time-to-Market Simulator

Building a per-stream royalty engine with encoded splits, micropayment clearing, and a live earnings indexer from scratch requires specialised payments engineers and long audit cycles. Calculate your exact deployment speed using Cerulea.

Required Split & Clearing Rules

42Rules
Simple (10)Enterprise (200)

Traditional Deployment

Solidity Coding & Audits

~ 12 Months

Cerulea Edge

Visual Compilation

WASM Logical Artifacts

~ 4 Weeks

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Technical Methodology

The legacy timeline reflects creator-payments infrastructure benchmarks. Writing custom split logic, building a micropayment clearing engine, and shipping a verifiable earnings feed for an average app takes a baseline of 8 months. Building the same architecture on Cerulea takes a baseline of 2 weeks, because Cerulea Studio visually translates your split and clearing rules into pre-audited WebAssembly binaries and provisions the royalty ledger and indexer instantly.