Streaming platforms charge a subscription and pay creators from a pool by rules nobody outside can audit. EidoOS charges for what you watch and pays the creator most of it. This post is the model and its status.
The idea
Pay per use, in bytes. A viewer pays for the megabytes delivered at the quality they chose. No monthly fee, no tier. 70 % of that payment goes to the creator.
The ladder
Prices are derived from what serving costs at each resolution — a base transfer cost of $0.09/GB with a 1.5× platform margin, $0.135/GB, using the same per-title measurement pipeline PhoonoS built (and deliberately not PhoonoS's own $0.12/GiB figure, which belongs to a different provider tier):
| Quality | Price per hour |
|---|---|
| 240p | ~$0.021 |
| … | … |
| 4K | ~$0.863 |
Four economic holes were found in the first model — cases where a viewer could watch below cost or a creator could be paid for bytes never served — and closed before the current version.
Quality, measured
The old encoding ladder produced VMAF scores between 67.8 and 93.6 for the same price. Per-title encoding anchored to each video's own perceptual score fixes that; x265 and AV1 cut delivered bytes 53–60 % at equal quality, which under pay-per-use means the viewer pays less for the same picture.
What is complete
- Publishing studio: upload, encode, publish, with channel and episode structure in the style of a video channel format. Complete and tested.
- Channel format: complete and tested.
- Tests: 199 backend, 157 client.
- App:
com.empoorio.eidoos, internal testing on Google Play (version 1 published, version 2 in draft); a signed 0.1.1 bundle verified.
What is not
- A public backend.
eidoos.comand its API host do not resolve. The cloud project has its database, rules and indexes ready; storage and compute are blocked on billing. - Public users. None.
- On-chain settlement. Designed — DUSD payments,
pallet-nft-royaltiesfor creator share on derivative sales,pallet-video-nftfor ownership — not wired into the app.
Why it belongs on this chain
Because 70 % is a number the runtime can enforce. On a conventional platform the creator share is a policy; on EmpoorioChain a royalty rule in pallet-nft-royalties is applied by the transfer itself, and a subscription-style recurring payment is pallet-subscription. The platform can promise 70 % and make the promise a property of the asset rather than of the company.
The previous page
It described a conference day with live podcasts, a music showcase and hackathon winners from another ecosystem. This one describes a video platform whose team measured the cost of a gigabyte before setting a price. The first creator paid 70 % of a real viewer's payment is the milestone.
Based on the EidoOS status (2026-08-24), the pay-per-use economics, the EidoOS compression measurements and the Play release notes (2026-08-30).