What 12Fame is
12Fame is a music platform for independent musicians, operated by Aurora Innovations Holding B.V. in the Netherlands.
For fans
- Buy songs straight from the musician, from € 1. You may download and keep the song for your own use, without copy protection. The musician remains the owner of the music; buyers get a licence for their own use.
- You can hear a song in full three times; after that you hear a 30-second preview.
- If someone buys a song they discovered through you, you earn a share. To earn a share you must have bought the song yourself.
- Tips: 95% goes to the musician minus a network contribution (currently € 0.01); 12Fame gets 5% plus that contribution.
How a purchase is split
| Bought… | Musician | Friend | Their friend | 12Fame |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| directly | 90% | – | – | 10% |
| via a friend | 80% | 10% | – | 10% |
| via a friend of a friend | 75% | 10% | 5% | 10% |
These percentages are fixed constants in the public split contract.
Test phase
12Fame is in its test phase. There is no real money in the app.
- The app runs on Base Sepolia, the test network of the Base blockchain (chain ID 84532).
- Payments use test versions of euro stablecoins (test EURe from the Monerium sandbox and test EURC from Circle). Test money has no value and cannot be converted into real money.
- Testers top up from 12Fame's test pot. Monerium is only used in its sandbox, and is not needed to try 12Fame.
- Test accounts, test data and test money will not carry over to a version with real money.
This guide only describes the test phase as it works today.
How to try it
About five minutes, in a mobile or desktop browser. The app is currently in Dutch only, so the button labels below are given in Dutch with a translation. Testers must be 18 or older (terms, article 4). Any song on the home screen can be bought.
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Open the test app
Go to app.12fame.music.
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Sign in with an e-mail code
Enter your e-mail address and tap Stuur inlogcode (send sign-in code). Coinbase e-mails you a 6-digit code; enter it. No password and no seed phrase.
The first time, Coinbase creates your wallet and you create a 12Fame profile: choose Ik ben fan (I am a fan), a username and a name.
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Take test money from the test pot
Open Saldo (balance; the wallet icon at the top right of the home screen) and tap Opwaarderen (top up). Keep EURe (Monerium) selected, pick an amount and tap the button ending in uit de testpot (from the test pot). The test tokens arrive in your own wallet.
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Buy a song
Open a song, tap Koop nummer (buy song) and then Koop voor € … (buy for € …). If you set up a passkey (Face ID / Touch ID) when the app asks (recommended), Coinbase asks for it to confirm the payment. 12Fame pays the network fee of the purchase.
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See the split on Blockscout
The receipt in the app shows how the price was split and the transaction hash (tx 0x…). Look up that hash on base-sepolia.blockscout.com: the token transfers go straight from the buyer's wallet to the musician, any referring friends and 12Fame, and the Purchased event lists each amount.
You can also open the split contract on Blockscout, where its source code is verified, and view its recent transactions.
Optional: on the Saldo screen you can connect a Monerium sandbox account to get a sandbox IBAN. Note that Monerium asks for real personal data and an identity document, even in its sandbox. It is not needed to try 12Fame. Need a specific test scenario, such as a musician account? Mail info@12fame.com.
Who does what
12Fame works with specialised partners. 12Fame does not hold users' money: a purchase goes in one transaction from the buyer's wallet to the recipients.
Wallet and sign-in
Embedded wallets (non-custodial). Coinbase sends the sign-in code, creates and secures the user's wallet and processes the transactions. 12Fame cannot take money out of a user's wallet. The network fees of purchases are paid by 12Fame.
Identity check (KYC) and IBAN
Monerium hf. (Iceland) is authorised as an electronic money institution by the Financial Supervisory Authority of the Central Bank of Iceland, and is the issuer of EURe. Users connect their own Monerium account to 12Fame via OAuth. Monerium does the identity check and issues the IBAN. From Monerium, 12Fame keeps details such as the profile status, the e-mail address and the IBAN; it does not read or store identity documents or other KYC data. In the test phase only the Monerium sandbox is used.
The split
The TwelveFameSplitter contract splits each purchase or tip in one transaction, directly from the buyer's wallet to the recipients. It holds no funds and has no administrator; the accepted tokens and the percentages were fixed at deployment. It also records each song at publication (musician, file hash, time).
The app
12Fame builds and runs the app. For each purchase, the 12Fame server signs a voucher that states who referred the buyer; only the buyer can redeem it. 12Fame receives its 10% (5% on tips) like any other recipient, and runs the test pot.
Technical details (test network)
- Network
- Base Sepolia, chain ID 84532
- Split contract
- 0xa3251a6cf4c2dbe8fe6ff11df1848dbb1069ee6e
- Test EURe (Monerium sandbox)
- 0x29F37F6adCa168B79B8d9567eab9BE3fBF21db85
- Test EURC (Circle)
- 0x808456652fdb597867f38412077A9182bf77359F
Data protection and terms
- Privacy statement and terms of use, in Dutch with an English translation (the links open the English text).
- The app and the 12Fame server set no cookies and use no analytics services. This website sets no cookies and does not track you; only the language choice on the home page is remembered in your browser.
- Rights issues with music: the notice form (no account needed) or rechten@12fame.com.
Company and contact
- Company
- Aurora Innovations Holding B.V.
- Address
- Retersbekerweg 16, 6343 PK Klimmen, the Netherlands
- Chamber of Commerce (KvK)
- 14103566
- VAT number
- NL819620488B02
- info@12fame.com
- Phone
- +31 6 54 67 09 80