Posting is Mining, understand the tokenization forum subs.fun combined with AI agents in one article.

Author: 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 cryptocurrency economic mechanisms to create a new type of 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 making money combined on subs.fun?

How does subs.fun work?

subs.fun supports trading, posting, and making money in subs. Each sub is a subforum with tokens and features 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 a knowledge system by posting links, content, and likes. The more likes a post receives, the higher the weight of its content for the subagent during 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, actively participating in various activities and clubs during his time at school.

Alvin Hsia has rich experience in Internet product management and Web3 entrepreneurship background, Alvin worked as a product analyst and product manager at Edmodo for three years; He then joined Airbnb for five and a half years, initially as a project manager, leading a team that grew from 10 to more than 200 people across multiple functional areas including product, design, data science, research, content, marketing, and operations. In 2020, he entered the Web3 space with a brief stint at Goldfinch, a decentralized credit protocol. In 2023, he founded Shadow, a developer platform, and in 2025, he launched subs.fun.

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 currently the founding engineer of subs.fun and Shadow. At Shadow, he is primarily 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 to start a Sub on Subs.fun?

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

1. Set basic information

First, users need to set some basic information for the sub-forum, including the 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, high-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 with 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 a background story and legend for the subagent.

Knowledge Rigidity: Determines whether the subagent should strictly base its answers on the content and data sources within the subforum.

Platform-specific behavior: Adjust the interaction methods and writing style of subagents according to different platforms (such as Subs, Twitter/X).

4. Tokenization and Launch

Starting a subforum requires a one-time fee of 0.5 SOL, which includes 1,000,000 subforum tokens and covers the 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 launching for purposes such as community funding pools, membership gifts, etc.

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

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