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Stems, the on-chain music platform founded by Kyler Simzer, will open a multi-coin NFT on May 22, 2026, releasing audio from Simzer’s collection as hybrid NFTs. The drop cover comes from three Simzer albums – 000, O, and 111 – and stays open for two weeks before closing on June 5. After that, the first delivery is planned.
Each NFT represents one track from one Simzer track: a drum loop, a vocal take, a bassline, a synth, or another track in the production. Collectors who find the right combination of stems from a single song can make it into a Song Token, an NFT that unlocks the entire song along with an ISRC identifier. Assembling and creating each track from an album creates an Album Icon, the largest piece of ownership in the system, and a UPC for the combined album.
For Kyler Simzer, the founder of Stems and the artist behind the music collection, the installation is a personal release as a debut. The same music is still heard wherever it likes. What Stems adds is a way for fans to use recordings as chain items and combine them into groups over time.
“This is the first time my catalog has been organized,” Simzer said. “Audiences can still listen to the music anywhere.” What’s new is that people who really care about the music have a way to handle it, mix it, create it, and end up with something that represents the whole project.
The platform places three activities around music. Mint releases the first editions in a two-week window. The Mixer allows owners to preview their existing mix of stems, so they can get a feel for how their collection sounds like a live mix. The Forge transforms collected stems into tokens for songs and albums, each unit representing a higher level of ownership of the source material. Streams can also be viewed, downloaded, and sent as high-quality audio from the platform.
“Music has always been a part of culture lovers who really care about owning a piece, but a lot of the ways to do that have been very specific,” added Simzer. “Stems is the genre where ownership is direct. You hold the stem. You play the song, you finish the album. It’s yours.”
The three albums in this catalog – 000, O, and 111 – are each divided into popular tracks, and each track into a popular source. Those who want a complete Album Icon will need to find and create a root for every song on the album, and the missing will increase for each part of the system.
The two-week mint window is intentional and, once it closes on June 5, no additional items from this drop will be made. The market functions as a collection rather than a continuous release: selling, mixing, creating, and advancing tokens.
Stems is described as the first deployment of a larger version of chain music. The mechanics of the platform – stable components, stable ownership, forge-driven progression – are designed in a way that can go beyond a single guide if the feature gains traction. The first release is built around Simzer’s music as its foundation.
Mint opens May 22, 2026 and closes June 5, 2026 at it starts.fm.
The stems were built by Web3 Development Agency BeAWhalea studio that specializes in platform design, smart contract architecture, and startup systems.
“The team has provided a higher standard of service than I expected.” – Simzer, Inventor of Stems.
About It Begins
Stems is a music platform that produces finished music as integrated NFTs that represent recording layers. Through a layered system of tracks, tracks, and albums, the platform creates a progression of ownership where collectors manage their scarcity and identity over time. The platform’s first release covers Kyler Simzer’s catalog of three albums: 000, O, and 111.
Find out more at https://stems.fm.
