Not a link to your track. Not a token that points at it. The actual audio, inscribed on-chain — streamable by anyone you send the link to, no wallet needed to listen. For about the price of a coffee.
Every "on-chain music" platform before this — Audius, Royal, Catalog — stored the audio off-chain (IPFS, Amazon) and only put a token or receipt on the chain. When the company died, the music died with it.
ChainDrop inscribes the real audio bytes into the chain's permanent transaction history. Your song doesn't depend on our servers staying alive. The platform is disposable — your music isn't.
| Storing audio on Solana… | per MB | per GB |
|---|---|---|
| The normal way (account storage) | ~$875 | ~$900,000 |
| ChainDrop (IQ Code-In inscription) | ~$0.42 | ~$430 |
IQ's Code-In tech writes your audio into ledger/calldata instead of rent-bearing account state — roughly 2,000× cheaper. That's the only reason putting a whole song on-chain is even affordable. A typical 3–4 min track inscribes for ~$2 (Solana) or ~$5 (Robinhood Chain). Figures move with token prices; approximate.
We're inviting a small group of musicians to put their tracks on-chain before anyone else. Want in?
⛓ Drop a track →Straight talk: ChainDrop is the first music platform built on truly on-chain audio (Bitcoin Ordinals had one-off audio first). "Permanent" means inscribed in the chain's transaction history & served via archive/gateway — far more durable than an IPFS pin, retrieved byte-for-byte.