Live streams
Creators can stream alongside their token, so people can watch, chat and trade in the same place. Live in the app lists everyone currently streaming.
Watching
Anyone can watch, with no wallet and no sign-in. Open Live, pick a stream, and it plays in the page.
The stream page carries a Trade the token button and the token's own trade panel, so you never have to leave to buy or sell. Underneath the player you will see when the stream started, how long it has been running, and the chat.
When a stream ends, the player is replaced with a note saying so, along with the other streams still running.
Going live
You need a connected wallet, to be signed in, and a token you launched yourself. Streaming is tied to a token: only its creator can stream about it. If you have not launched anything, there is nothing to go live with yet.
Press Go live and pick which of your tokens the stream is about. The title fills in from the token, as "MoonShot $MOON", and you can replace it with anything you like.
You can have one live stream at a time. Starting another updates your existing one rather than creating a second.
End stream stops it. Only you can end your own.
Two ways to broadcast
Moltion gives you the streaming server. You do not need an account anywhere else.
From your browser
The simplest option. Open Stream setup on your stream page and press Go on camera. Your browser asks for camera and microphone permission, you get a preview of yourself, and pressing the button puts you on air.
There are buttons to turn your camera off or mute your mic without ending the broadcast. Closing the tab ends it.
Nothing to install, and you never see or handle a stream key.
With OBS, a camera, or another encoder
Better if you want scenes, overlays, a capture card or a proper microphone setup, and the only option for hardware that streams on its own.
Stream setup gives you three values. Which you need depends on how many boxes your encoder has.
| Your encoder has | Use |
|---|---|
| Two boxes, a server and a stream key | Server and Stream key |
| One box, just an "RTMP URL" | Server and key in one URL |
In OBS that is Settings, Stream, Service set to Custom, then paste the server and the key into their two fields.
Plenty of hardware and phone apps have only one field: action cameras, drones, and many Android streaming apps. Pasting just the server there will connect and then never publish, with nothing on screen saying why. The combined URL is the one to use, and it looks like this:
rtmp://rtmp.moltion.xyz/live/your-stream-key
Your stream key is a password, and the combined URL contains it. Anyone who has either can broadcast as you, to your audience, on your token's page. Never show them on screen, and never paste them anywhere but your own encoder. If you stream your own setup screen, hide it first.
SRT is also available if your encoder prefers it.
Chat
Live chat sits beside the player. Anyone signed in can post.
- 300 characters per message.
- Five seconds between messages, to keep one person from flooding the room.
- Each person's name has its own colour, so you can follow who is talking at a glance.
The streamer can pin a message, remove a message, and ban a wallet from their own chat. A ban applies to that person's chat only; it does not stop them trading or watching.
Messages are checked automatically, and anything clearly abusive is removed and flagged for review rather than waiting for someone to report it.
Stream time
Moltion can put a daily limit on how long each token may stream, so that hosting costs stay predictable. Whether this is switched on at all is a platform setting, and when it is off there is no limit and nothing about it appears.
When it is on, the stream page shows Stream time left today next to the duration, and the rules are:
| Each token starts the day with | 60 minutes |
| Every trade on that token adds | 2 minutes |
| Ceiling per day | 12 hours |
Two things worth knowing:
Time is only spent while you are actually broadcasting. If your connection drops, or you have not started your encoder yet, the clock stops. You are never charged for time you were not on air.
When it runs out, the stream ends. A warning appears in the last few minutes, and trading the token is what adds more time, which is why the countdown is shown to viewers too and not just to you.
The limit is per token per day and resets at midnight UTC.
If your connection drops
The stream is not ended immediately. It shows as Reconnecting while your encoder tries again, and it comes back on its own if you return within about a minute.
Past that it is ended properly and your stream key stops working, so nothing can attach to it afterwards. To come back you press Go live again, which is a new broadcast.
Launching with a live stream
On Create you can pick Go live after launch instead of a standard launch. Your token is created, your stream opens against it straight away, and you land on it with the setup panel ready.
Choosing it costs you nothing in stream time. The clock only starts when you actually go on air, so you can take as long as you like getting set up.
If nothing appears when you start streaming
| What you see | Usually means |
|---|---|
| Your encoder says connected, the page stays on "Starting" | The server URL was pasted into a one-field encoder without the key. Use the combined URL instead |
| Your encoder refuses to connect | The key is wrong or the stream was ended. Reopen Stream setup and copy the values again |
| It worked, then stopped | The connection dropped. It shows as Reconnecting for about a minute before ending |
Good practice
- Check your camera and microphone before you announce anything.
- The countdown is public, so if your token has a budget your viewers can see it too. Trading is what extends it.
- Streaming is not moderated by Moltion beyond the automatic chat checks, and a stream is not a signal about a token's quality.