Beamr is the easiest way to sustainably reward the people who make your feed worth scrolling:

1. You set a continuous token stream rate. Think of this like a single subscription budget for all your favorite Farcaster creators.

2. We dynamically split that stream based on your interactions (likes, comments, follows, etc.). The result is an intelligently curated series of “micro subscriptions” with no incremental cost or effort to you.

3. Your favorite Farcasters start earning instantly & consistently from your stream. This liquid yet relational system embraces the unique attributes of the feed while avoiding an impersonal, metrics-based race to the bottom.

The feed is today’s most important medium–nearly perfect at harnessing the infinite possibilities of the internet. But its incentive structure is broken for creators, for consumers, for society.

We want to bring what Patreon and Substack did for long-form creators to the feed: 

• Emphasizing a relational model rather than transactional

• Earning as a result of intentional, not mindless, activity

• Supporting curated, niche tastes over algorithmic aggregation

• Creating sustainable user-attention & business models

• The initial Beamr product centers on individually curated streaming rewards pools.

• Each pool is a smart contract that splits incoming token streams proportionally to its internal index of Ethereum addresses and weights:

  • Each address receives a continuous stream of tokens = pool flow rate * address’s units/total pool units

  • When one address receives a new pool unit, the total pool units (i.e., the denominator) for all pool recipients also increases. This means that with a single transaction, the stream rates for all pool recipients can elegantly be updated.

• Beamr manages these units for its users based on their Farcaster interactions. 

  • Because (almost) all Farcasters have an ETH wallet associated with their profile, we can assign them units in the corresponding pool when a Beamr user likes, comments, recasts, quotes, or follows them.

  • At onboarding, users will be asked to select several of their favorite Farcasters to seed their pool.

  • Beamr will soon apply a configurable rolling window for inclusion (i.e., only interactions from the last 30 days remain in the pool weights) so rewards remain dynamic and meaningful.

• Beamr users are the primary funders of their own pools (at least initially):

  • They can set, adjust, and close their stream at any time.

  • If a user closes their pool stream, we’ll stop updating their index because these onchain actions cost money.

• One of the most powerful aspects of Superfluid’s token-centric model is that incoming streams can fund outgoing streams in real-time. 

  • We’ll let Farcasters know when they start earning their first “micro subscription” payments from Beamr. 

  • Hopefully, many of them start paying it forward to create an efficient, high-velocity streaming economy.

    

• The Beamr app is based on Superfluid, a token-centric streaming protocol.

• $BEAMR will be a Pure Super Token on Base.

  • Traditional ER20s (e.g., USDC) can be wrapped 1:1 to gain Superfluid’s streaming capabilities, but Pure Super Tokens work out of the box. They offer a superior user experience and our best bet at adoption by avoiding wrapping/unwrapping transactions and the mental load of dual-balance management.

• Denominating all Beamr pools in $BEAMR will help us concentrate (meaningful) economic activity.  

  • Incoming streams can fund outgoing streams of the same token denomination.

  • Getting tipped random creator coins is more like spam than a reward. We’ve seen it play out.

• Beamr is an experimental app. A native utility token gives our team and early believers the ability to start small, maintain more degrees of freedom, and demonstrate the value of the use case.

• The token will be fair-launched with our friends and fellow Superfluid-maxis Streme…

• Bots win over real people in most LP-launched tokens (bots are always faster). 

• We’re doing something different and bundling a “Community Buy” opportunity in our token launch:

  • ETH Deposits to buy $BEAMR will open up ~2 days before the token launch in the Beamr app.

  • Deposits and withdrawals remain open until launch.

  • The final deposit total will be used to buy $BEAMR in a transaction bundled with the LP creation (i.e., bots can’t beat us to the punch). 

  • The total ETH in the batch purchase determines the executed token price. Standard LP fees apply.

  • Purchased tokens are distributed pro rata; everyone gets the same blended token price.

  • These tokens will be subject to a 5-day lock (to avoid perverse insta-dump incentives).

  • Open trading starts immediately after this bundled purchase is complete.

  • Fair launch participants will receive XP in the Beamr $SUP campaign.

• This mechanism is designed for committed Beamr users to get access to $BEAMR –not speculation. $BEAMR is a utility token for streaming. The Beamr team makes no representations about $BEAMR's value or future development.

Shoutout to the Streme team for making this possible. None of this is financial advice, but builders interested in using streaming tokens should consider working with them.

• No. Rather than a big, centralized airdrop campaign, we’re going to use native Beamr features to deputize our users to help distribute the $BEAMR token widely (a la DEGEN).

• We’ll open $BEAMR streams to the pools of users who actively demonstrate alignment with the project’s success. Details TBA, but these are always good ideas:

  • Help educate other community members

  • Show good taste in curating your pool (ie, don’t just indiscriminately like slop and build a low-quality rewards pool) 

  • Stream a lot of Beamr from your own funds

  • Support Superfluid and other streaming ecosystem projects

• We’re going to collect a streaming fee on all $BEAMR pool–at least initially:

  • 95% of your $BEAMR stream will go to your pool

  • 2.5% will go to a Beamr team multisig

  • 2.5% will go to a burn address

• We want our business model and ecosystem growth to align with the development of a useful service. This does that.

• Because gas. Even on Base, all the pool update transactions we perform on behalf of users will get expensive. Gas will be our highest operational cost, and we want to run this service sustainably.

• We’re going to update units based on interactions in near real-time to start, but eventually we may move to a nightly batch approach for gas and operational efficiency.

• We will enforce a minimum pool steam rate to avoid high-cost, low-value pools.

• We may adjust fees up or down based on the cost profile we settle into. TBH, there’s a lot of variability that we won’t know until we know.

• @Jord & @Graven are leading the development of Beamr.

• It’s a @flowstatecoop project.

• We’ve been builders in the Superfluid ecosystem for a long time.

• We believe in the power of streaming money and positive-sum games.