Meet the ByteStars
Crafting a creative universe of AI-characters to produce memorable music and video. Exploring the edge of human + AI collaboration.
Curated AI Characters
Each ByteStar AI character is the result of careful human coding, curation and refinement to hone a unique backstory, personality, style, and target audience. This ensures that all content maintains high character consistency and quality. All are deliberately non-human and fantastical to avoid the "uncanny valley" and ensure clarity as to their (non-)humanity.
Human-AI Collaboration
ByteStars chooses collaboration over automation. The humans behind ByteStars are skilled musicians with decades of real-world experience, contributing to the depth and authenticity of our characters' output. Prioritizing quality over quantity, we aim to produce compelling artistic content that resonates. All content for general release has had extensive, thoughtful and authentic human touch.
A New Creative Universe
Inspired by the imaginative universes created by the creative cultural universes of the 20th century that have been the source of endless new stories or modern mythology, we envision ByteStars as part of a new creative era for the AI age. The goal is for ByteStars to be a source of wonder and inspiration for generations to come and to explore and push the boundaries of this exciting frontier.
Community Bounties
Are you a musician who can create quality instrumental (guitar, piano, band, etc) arrangements of ByteStars songs? Are you awesome at video creation and feel you can create viral ByteStars-themed content? Do you have an existing content channel and want to spread the word?
Yes? We love you! 😍 Follow our ByteStars BlueSky account and lookout for the #ByteStarsBounty hashtag. Each post will contain the specifics of that bounty. Reply to our bounty post with a link to your new content as posted on your own channel.
If your response fulfills the bounty requirements you will soon get a DM with a secret code, put that code in the widget below to claim your $BYTESTARS bounty!
Claim A Bounty
Open Bounties
Bounty amounts are in $BYTESTARS tokens.
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Bespoke Commissions
Want a bespoke creative piece from a ByteStar? DM @ByteStars on BlueSky to request anything from the opening theme song for your film, to a specific educational arrangement of one of our songs, or anything else exclusively to tailored to your specifications. Whether it's live events, film soundtracks, educational content, product placements, or innovative collaborations, it can be done and ByteStars are here to bring your creative visions to life.
Alternatively, you can also request a bounty via @ByteStars BlueSky and if accepted we will post the bounty to the community which you can then boost. See Community Bounties above for more information.
The ByteStars Roadmap
- January-March 2025: initial planning and design of creative processes and overall vision.
- April 2025: launch of this bytestars.xyz website and the deployment of underlying AI systems, scripting, blockchain contracts and initial liquidity pools to power the core ecosystem. First audio tracks and related content released on Audius. Launch of the Labs collections.
- May 2025: deployment of initial processes for music video production and publication. Launch of the Bounties program. Push to get ByteStars music distributed on platforms beyond Audius. Release of first ByteStars sheet music on various marketplaces.
- June 2025: deployment of final core models and processes to allow for iterative ByteStar learning, model refinement and character development. Launch of additional ByteStar characters to add to the initial core ByteStars line-up.
- July 2025: launch of the live Jam Sessions.
- September 2025: launch of first real-world interactive advertising campaign to draw new audiences into the ByteStars brand experience.
- By end of 2025: gradual deployment of all processes and storage to fully decentralized services.
- 2026 and beyond: deployment of a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organisation) to manage the brand including: daily adminstrative operations, creative decisions and strategic branding. This will allow ByteStars to operate in perpetuity as a human-centered collective where anyone with good ideas can participate regardless of their access to traditional creative tools. The $BYTESTARS token will be the currency of this future DAO.
Follow ByteStars on BlueSky to stay updated with our progress!
The $BYTESTARS
Token
The $BYTESTARS
token is a Polygon ERC20 utility token underpinning the ByteStars
ecosystem, and your key to getting the best out of your ByteStars experience.
Use your $BYTESTARS to access exclusive content with Lab
Passes, boost Community Bounties, pay for commercial usage rights for
your derivative works, power your
ByteStars
Jam sessions, or support the ecosystem by pooling your tokens over on Uniswap
or
QuickSwap
for generous rewards.
ERC20 Token Contract Address: ERC20 Token Image URL: View on polygonscan
Tokenomics
- Total Supply: 1,000,000,000 tokens (100%) Fully minted on initial deployment with contract ownership renounced.
- Community Rewards: 370,000,000 tokens (37%) Given as bounties to community members who create outstanding viral fan content.
- Liquidity Pools and Faucet Supply: 370,000,000 tokens (37%) Available via The $BYTESTARS Faucet and/or placed into the Uniswap and QuickSwap pools as needed.
- Team Rewards: 130,000,000 tokens (13%) Rewards to core founders and team on a vesting schedule based on the core creative output of the ByteStars characters.
- ByteStars Reserve: 130,000,000 tokens (13%) Held by ByteStars as a system fund for operations.
It's essential to note that $BYTESTARS
is strictly a utility token within
our platform and is not intended to be an investment vehicle. Its value lies in unlocking
exclusive creative opportunities and enhancing your experience within the ByteStars
universe.