Authors and moderation

Authors do not need to onboard first

An author does not need to activate an Auteur curator profile before their work can be discovered and funded.

The work remains an ordinary Farcaster cast or X post. If it is selected by eligible curators, passes moderation, and is included in settlement, its author can receive an author reward at a connected Ethereum address.

A Farcaster author can receive rewards through an eligible affiliated wallet. For a new X author, Auteur can provision a user-owned wallet and onboarding path before settlement. The author can later connect at auteur.network to access the profile and claim. Because rewards are credited onchain, they remain claimable until the receiving wallet claims them.

What funding means

"Funded" means that a work was approved for the epoch's reward ledger. It does not mean that Auteur owns, tokenizes, or acquires rights to the work.

A work can receive Auteur funding only once. Previously rewarded platform identifiers are excluded from future candidate rankings and rejected from later funded sets.

Current moderation model

Auteur currently uses a human moderation layer before settlement. Its purpose is to keep emissions focused on work that contributes meaningfully and to filter material such as:

• obvious spam or reward farming;
• plagiarism or impersonation;
• low-effort engagement bait;
• content that does not represent a meaningful contribution;
• activity that violates applicable platform or network rules.

The number of funded works is not fixed. The epoch budget is divided across the works that are ultimately funded.

What moderation does not do

Moderation determines which works can receive funding. It does not determine each curator's payout manually.

Once the funded set is fixed, the reward ledger is calculated deterministically from:

• the epoch snapshot;
• recorded eligible selections from supported platforms;
• the funded work set;
• the published pool split;
• author and entry discovery parameters;
• active backing positions and backing parameters, in epochs with backing rewards enabled.

Backing an auteur does not buy moderation approval. Neither a high Strength score, a Rising indicator, nor a large backing position guarantees that a work will be funded.