qnch

beta live launching 2026

DIY streaming Patronage Together at last

QNCH lets musicians DIY, together.
No subscriptions, no AI trickery.

Join the New-New way for musicians to retain control of their lives, careers, and communities.

Get ready for something different

Three services, no platforms

The Sweet Spot for DIYing without being isolated

Station

the service

Each artist hosts their own music catalog.

qnch

the network

Each Station instance is a participant in a peer-to-peer network.

FanSociety

fan clubs

A crowdfunding and patronage service, integrated natively with Station.

more about the three services

Setup

DIY toolkit for DIY musicians

  1. Get a server

    Intimidating? It's actually really simple. Providers start around $4 a month. Get a domain or use your existing one.

    No domain of your own? The installer will help you set up a free DuckDNS subdomain instead.

  2. Run one command

    Copy the install command to run the interactive installer. Answer a few questions, the installer does the hard, scary stuff for you.

    docs.qnch.network has step by step instructions. You can do this, we believe in you.

  3. Log in and publish

    Use your dashboard to onboard onto the network. You're ready to upload and publish your work; no platform permissions or distributor headaches.

    The artist dashboard has everything you need to publish and monetize your music without subscriptions.

The dashboard

Artist controls

Everything below ships today and runs on your own server, behind your own login.

The Catalog page of the Station artist dashboard.
artist dashboard — catalog
The New Release page of the Station artist dashboard.
artist dashboard — new release
The Storefront page of the Station artist dashboard.
artist dashboard — storefront
The Fan Club page of the Station artist dashboard.
artist dashboard — fan club
The Treasury page of the Station artist dashboard.
artist dashboard — treasury
The Settings page of the Station artist dashboard.
artist dashboard — settings
read the full the dashboard

Revenue split

Sovereign payments, minimally extractive

0% 100% station | you

Station is launching with zero rev share. You keep all of your income, always.

Rates are locked in but will rise over time. Get started now.

The protection isn't that we promise not to raise your rate. It's that we can't.
read the full revenue split

FanSociety

Crowdfunding patronage for musicians and fans

Though accessible, subscriptions are not durable. We landed on a simple solution, a one time donation provides capital to artists and can also timestamp when a fan discovered an artist.

For you

artist
  • An additional source of income through crowdfunding while avoiding subscription fatigue.
  • Grant early releases, bonus tracks, or free streaming to any generation you choose — per album, or per track.
  • Integrated with Station on day one; easy to manage in your self hosted artist dashboard.
  • Identify fans based on when they join your community, with the flexibility to give back to them in meaningful ways.

For them

fan
  • Digital proof that they were an early fan, durable social currency.
  • Get special access granted by artists; digital products, physical products, and event tickets.
  • Support artists directly with a provable minimally extractive payments system.
  • Stronger tie to the artist, doesn't depend on success of a single business to be durable and long lasting.

The social contract between a fan and an artist already exists. FanSociety just records it somewhere neither party can edit later.

read the full fansociety

Discovery

Bye-bye algorithms

The qnch listener app: a dark interface with Search, Library and Wallet in the header, the Station wordmark, and a card reading Artist Operated.
the listener app — no browse page, no charts

No recommendation engine. No browse page. No directory.

Streaming platforms didn't only take over hosting, distribution and payment. They took over discovery, and recommendations.

Station isn't aimed at replacing this model, but at breaking it apart and redistributing it. Reviewers, critics, DJs, blogs, record shops, magazines. There's little room for them if a platform does it all.

artist page beta.qnch.network/artist/your-namespace
read the full discovery

Artificial intelligence

The elephant in the room

Love it or hate it, AI music is upon us. Station has a simple solution.

Because Station lacks a recommendation engine you'll never be duped into consuming AI music unknowingly.

read the full artificial intelligence

Start

the new way to DIY

one command
curl -sSL https://qnch.network/install.sh -o install.sh && sudo bash install.sh --network testnet

beta live Free tokens from a faucet, worth nothing. Deploy contracts, take fake payments, make mistakes. Mainnet launches in 2026 — we'll say so the moment it does.

Read the docs The full walkthrough — server, domain, wallet, first release. Hear it working The listener app, running on testnet. Nothing to install. Ask us anything Argue with the economics or just say hi. We’re in there.