Can posting make money? Understand the tokenization forum subs.fun combined with AI agents in one article.

How are posting and making money combined on subs.fun?

Written by: Fairy, ChainCatcher

In the context of centralized platforms dominating user attention and compressing the earnings of content creators, subs.fun has emerged, attempting to revive the original ideals of the internet: to build a community-driven, value-sharing network universe.

subs.fun integrates AI technology with cryptoeconomic mechanisms to create a new platform where users can post and trade in tokenized sub-forums ("subs"), and earn rewards through content contributions, exploring new models of content community operation and value distribution.

So, how are posting and earning combined on subs.fun?

How does subs.fun work?

subs.fun supports trading, posting, and earning in subs. Each sub is a subforum with tokens and is equipped with a dedicated AI agent called Subagent. When members contribute insights, data, and discussions, the subagent incorporates them into the knowledge base and rewards the contributors.

A new token is generated for each sub upon creation, and holding the corresponding token (i.e., token gating mechanism) is required to join that sub.

Members help subagents build their knowledge system by posting links, content, and likes. The more likes a post receives, the higher the weight of its content when the subagent is learning. Members earn sub tokens as rewards for posting high-quality content and engaging actively.

Team Background

Alvin Hsia is the co-founder of subs.fun and also serves as the co-founder and CEO of Shadow. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a double bachelor's degree in Business Economics and Computer Science, and was actively involved in various activities and clubs during his time at school.

Alvin Hsia has rich experience in internet product management and a background in Web3 entrepreneurship. Alvin worked at Edmodo as a product analyst and product manager for a total of three years; he then joined Airbnb, where he served for five and a half years, initially as a project manager, leading a team that expanded from 10 people to over 200, covering multiple functional areas including product, design, data science, research, content, marketing, and operations. In 2020, he entered the Web3 space and briefly worked at the decentralized credit protocol Goldfinch. In 2023, he founded the developer platform Shadow and plans to launch subs.fun in 2025.

The founding engineer of subs.fun, Jonathan Becker, has five years of engineering experience and has worked as an engineer at companies such as Chainalysis, Transpose, and Bubbles. He is now the founding engineer of subs.fun and Shadow. At Shadow, he is mainly responsible for designing and developing blockchain indexing solutions and data pipelines based on Rust, aiming to create systems with high availability and production-level stability.

Jonathan Becker

How do I start a Sub in Subs.fun?

On the subs.fun platform, users can incentivize community member participation by creating and managing a tokenized sub-forum (Sub), allowing them to earn rewards from their contributions. Here are the specific steps:

1. Set Basic Information

First, users need to set some basic information for the sub-forum, including name, code symbol, description, and image.

2. Provide seed data for subagent

The subagent will learn from the information planned by the user. The more relevant, higher quality, and unique the user's data sources are, the more professional and valuable the subagent will become.

Supported content types: blog posts and subreddits, YouTube videos, Apple podcasts, Twitter/X posts, PDF files and research papers, custom text notes, CSV files containing URLs.

3. Design Your Own Subagent

In subs.fun, the personality and behavior of the subagent can be customized according to your needs. Users can set:

• Introduction: Create background stories and legends for subagents.
• Knowledge Rigidity: Determines whether the subagent should strictly answer questions based on the content and data sources in the subforum.
• Platform-specific behavior: Adjust the subagent's interaction methods and writing style according to different platforms (e.g., Subs, Twitter/X).

4.Tokenization and Launch

Launching a subforum requires a one-time fee of 0.5 SOL, which includes 1,000,000 subforum tokens and covers Solana network fees. As a subforum creator, users will automatically receive 1,000,000 subforum tokens. Users can also choose to purchase more tokens after launch for purposes such as community funds, member gifts, and more.

Once the subforum is launched, the tokens will be available for anyone to purchase. Over time, the subforum will continue to evolve, and the subagent will learn and evolve with the contributions of community members.

To join another user's sub-forum, users need to hold at least 10,000 sub-forum tokens and maintain this minimum balance to continue accessing the sub-forum.