Authors and moderation

Authors do not need to onboard first

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

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

The author can later open the mini app to view the reward and claim it. Because rewards are credited onchain, they remain claimable until the receiving wallet claims them.

What funding means

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

A cast can receive Auteur funding only once. Previously rewarded cast hashes 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 casts is not fixed. The epoch budget is divided across the casts that are ultimately funded.

What moderation does not do

Moderation determines which casts 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;
• the funded cast set;
• the published pool split;
• author and entry discovery parameters.