What is BlockReel Fund?

A complete overview of BlockReel Fund, the dual-rail crowdfunding platform for independent filmmakers combining Stripe and Solana payments.

What is BlockReel Fund?

The dual-rail crowdfunding platform built for independent filmmakers.

BlockReel Fund is a crowdfunding platform purpose-built for the film industry. It combines two payment rails (Stripe for fiat, Solana for stablecoins and SOL) so creators can raise money from a global audience without giving up most of their margin to platform fees.

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1. The short version 2. Who Fund is for 3. How it differs from generic platforms 4. Post-campaign perks for successful creators 5. The two payment rails 6. Funding models 7. Platform economics 8. What backers get 9. Next steps

The short version

You build a campaign page on /fund/start, set a funding goal and a deadline, design reward tiers, and share the page with your audience. Backers pledge with a credit card (Stripe) or a Solana wallet (USDC, USDT, or SOL). If you reach 80% of your goal by the deadline, your campaign succeeds and you fulfill the rewards you promised. Below 80%, card pledges are not charged; Solana pledges have already settled to a platform-controlled wallet and require administrator-initiated refunds from the treasury wallet to the original backer wallet.

Both card and Solana pledges count toward the same 80% campaign threshold.

Who Fund is for

Fund is designed for projects that fit one or more of these profiles:

• Independent narrative or documentary features in development, pre-production, or post-production
• Short films raising finishing funds, festival submission costs, or distribution budgets
• Episodic and web series producing a proof of concept or pilot
• Music videos, visual albums, and experimental work
• Film-adjacent projects like behind-the-scenes books, soundtrack pressings, archival restorations, or screening tours

If your project is not a film or directly serves filmmakers, Fund is probably not the right home for it. Kickstarter and Indiegogo serve general creative projects; we focus on cinema.

How it differs from generic platforms

> BlockReel Fund is the only crowdfunding platform built inside a working filmmaker ecosystem. The campaign is the start, not the end.

1. Transparent platform fees. Fund currently charges 5% on card and Solana pledges. Card processing and network fees are additional.

2. Solana payment rail. Backers anywhere in the world can pledge with USDC, USDT, or SOL through Phantom or Solflare. Settlement is instant, network fees are fractions of a cent, and creator payouts follow production milestones.

3. The post-campaign ecosystem (the big one). Generic platforms hand you the money and disappear. BlockReel keeps working for you after the campaign closes.

Post-campaign perks for successful creators

When your campaign reaches the 80% funding threshold, you unlock a package of platform benefits no other crowdfunding site offers:

• Direct-to-backer streaming. Release the finished film to your backers right here on BlockReel. Backers get a private screening link tied to their pledge; you control window, geography, and whether it later opens to the public catalog. No Vimeo OTT setup, no separate distribution deal.
• Guaranteed streaming catalog slot. Successful campaigns get an automatic spot on the BlockReel streaming platform when the film is delivered. No re-submission, no curation gate.
• Marketplace fee waiver. Sell behind-the-scenes assets, LUTs, sound packs, project files, or stills in our digital asset marketplace with the 7.5% platform fee waived for 12 months after delivery.
• Festival submission fee waiver. One free submission to the next BlockReel Film Festival edition, with all category and screenplay fees waived.
• Editorial coverage. A dedicated feature on BlockReel News and the blog: launch announcement, mid-campaign update, and a post-delivery case study with your team credited.
• Scheduled livestream room. Your own scheduled livestream sessions inside BlockReel Chat for backer Q&As, BTS reveals, table reads, or premiere watch parties. Backers get auto-notified.
• Founder NFT eligibility. Solana pledges count toward DAO governance weight, and successful creators are eligible for a Creator Founder NFT with permanent revenue-share status on future platform initiatives.
• REEL points + airdrop weighting. Both you and your backers earn REEL points that compound into the eventual $REEL token airdrop.
• Mentorship + job board credits. Successful creators receive mentorship session credits and complimentary job board posting for crewing the production.

You select which of these you want to advertise on your campaign page in the Fund Start Builder; all of them are honored automatically when the campaign succeeds.

The two payment rails

| Rail | Currencies | Who can launch | Backer reach | Fees | |---|---|---|---|---| | Stripe | USD, CAD | US and Canada only | Global (Stripe handles 135+ currencies) | 5% platform + ~2.9% + 30c per transaction | | Solana | USDC, USDT, SOL | Global (minus OFAC sanctioned countries) | Global (minus OFAC) | 5% platform + network fee |

You can enable one rail or both on the same campaign. Most creators run both to maximize reach.

> Why is Stripe limited to US and Canada? Tax reporting. Stripe issues 1099-K forms in the US and T4A equivalents in Canada. We can manage that for two jurisdictions cleanly. EU VAT, UK VATMOSS, Australian GST, and similar regimes require per-country tax registration that is not feasible at our current scale. The Solana rail solves the global access problem without dragging us into 30+ tax regimes.

Funding models

Fund's standard campaign succeeds when it reaches 80% of its funding goal by the deadline. Below that threshold, card pledges are not charged and Solana pledges require administrator-initiated refunds from the treasury wallet to the original backer wallet.

Platform economics

When a campaign succeeds, here is where the money goes:

• Creator payout: 95% of the gross on either rail, minus payment processor fees on the Stripe portion
• Platform fee: 5% on Stripe and Solana, flowing to the DAO treasury
• DAO treasury use: Festival prize pools, production budgets for DAO-elected projects, platform operations

Unlike traditional VC-backed crowdfunding platforms, our platform fee feeds back into the filmmaking community through the festival, studio productions, and creator grants. There is no extractive private equity sitting between the fee and the next film getting made.

What backers get

• Public credit on the campaign page
• Reward fulfillment as promised by the creator
• A backer dashboard tracking every project they have supported
• Direct messaging with creators
• Private streaming access to the finished film when the creator opts in
• Invitations to creator livestream sessions and premiere watch parties
• REEL points for every pledge (toward future $REEL token airdrops)
• For Solana pledges over a threshold: governance voting rights on DAO proposals

Next steps

If you are ready to plan a campaign, start with Setting a Realistic Funding Goal and Choosing Your Payment Rail. If you want to understand the eligibility rules first, read Who Can Launch a Campaign. When you are ready to build, head to Using the Fund Start Builder.

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*Last updated: 2026. BlockReel Fund is operated by BlockReel Inc., a Delaware corporation.*