If you, like me, missed the June 10th MintStars 2026 All Creator Call but still want the rundown on what all was spoken about, I got you. I went ahead and watched the recording of the call and figured i could scribble down some of the tea for those who dont have the time to watch the recording.
TLDR:
- Allie is now leading MintStars. The company is restructuring into a smaller team, with four of the five team members being creators and four being women.
- Jessica is stepping away from formal ownership. She plans to donate her 23% stake, with 20% going toward a creator co-ownership pool and 3% going to a sex worker rights organization.
- MintStars plans to give creators a financial interest in the company. Creators would earn points based on platform activity, revenue, and referrals. Those points could lead to a payout if MintStars is sold or begins paying dividends.
- Paid chat is now live. Creators can message fans, accept tips, and sell locked images, videos, and audio directly through chat.
- Pay-per-message pricing is being developed. Creators cannot currently charge a fee for every message, but MintStars said the feature is actively being worked on.
- The Minty Discord bot is now live. Creators can use it to generate tipping links, announce tips, create custom commands, and run randomized tipping games inside Discord.
- A traditional clip store is coming. MintStars plans to move away from the collectible-content model and allow creators to sell full-length clips directly.
- Vault and scheduling tools are being developed. Planned updates include scheduled posts, calendar views, and easier content organization.
- MintStars built its own payment gateway. The company says this should improve payment success rates, fraud prevention, and its ability to route failed payments through multiple providers.
- Communication is supposed to improve. MintStars acknowledged that creators had been left in the dark and said it plans to hold more regular calls and increase direct community support.
MintStars 2026 All Creator Call Breakdown
MintStars Addressed Losing Touch With Creators
MintStars opened the call by directly addressing recent criticism in its Discord community.
Creators had raised concerns that the platform no longer felt like the company they originally joined. Some were unsure whether founders Dan and Jessica were still involved. Others felt that newer team members did not understand sex workers or communicate in the same way the original team had.
There were also fears that MintStars was beginning to focus on larger creators, pursue a more mainstream audience, or distance itself from the adult industry.
The company denied that it had made a deliberate decision to abandon its original community. According to Dan, the disconnect happened while MintStars was trying to scale the business and rebuild its payment infrastructure.
The team admitted that it had handled communication poorly. MintStars stopped holding regular calls because it did not feel like it had enough creator-facing updates to share. A lot of its work was happening behind the scenes through payment processors, acquiring banks, fraud systems, and technical infrastructure.
That work may have been necessary, but creators could not see it. Without regular updates, people were left to guess what was happening.
MintStars said it should have kept communicating even when there were no exciting product launches to announce.
Allie Is Now Running MintStars
One of the biggest announcements was a leadership change.
Allie officially took over running MintStars during the call. She has nearly 20 years of experience in the adult industry, including work with Playboy, SpankChain, SpankPay, adult performance, payment systems, and the Free Speech Coalition. MintStars presented the change as a return to putting adult-industry professionals and creators at the center of the business.
The company is restructuring into a smaller five-person team. Four of the five team members are creators, and four are women. Corey will continue working in support. Emmy is moving into a more focused community-management role. Another MintStars creator is expected to take over social media after signing her contract. Dan remains involved, especially with payments and the separate payment-infrastructure side of the business.
The new team said its priorities will be communication, creator involvement, advocacy, product testing, and features that directly help creators make money.
Jessica Is Divesting Her Ownership
Jessica, one of the original co-founders, explained that she had already stepped back from day-to-day operations around two years ago to focus on her PhD research and sex worker advocacy. Her research includes interviews with both sex worker rights organizations and anti-sex work groups. During the call, she said an anti-sex work organization she interviewed later complained to Harvard about her advocacy and involvement with MintStars.
That complaint led to an institutional investigation and an initial decision that could have ended her research. Jessica said she successfully appealed that decision, but the process took up much of her year and forced her to reconsider how her formal involvement with MintStars could affect her academic work.
She now plans to divest her ownership stake in the company. Jessica said she may still advise MintStars informally and remain available to creators, but she will no longer maintain the same official ownership role.
MintStars Plans to Give Creators an Interest in 20% of the Company
The biggest long-term announcement was MintStars’ proposed creator co-ownership program. MintStars had previously discussed putting 10% of the company into a creator ownership structure.
During this call, Jessica announced that she plans to donate her full 23% stake. Under the proposed structure, 20% would be placed into an economic ownership pool for creators. The remaining 3% would go to a sex worker rights organization.
That organization would also hold the voting rights associated with Jessica’s shares, allowing it to vote with the interests of creators and the sex work community in mind. This sounds like creators are receiving stock, but that is not exactly what is being proposed.
Creators Would Receive Phantom Shares
MintStars plans to use phantom shares instead of traditional company shares. Phantom shares generally give someone a contractual right to receive money if a future payout occurs, but they do not give that person ordinary stock they can sell, transfer, or independently vote with.
Under the plan described during the call, creators could receive a portion of a future payout if MintStars becomes profitable and pays dividends or if the company is sold. There is no guarantee that either event will happen.
Creators would not receive immediate money simply for earning points. The value would only become real if MintStars later experiences a qualifying payout event.
The team said the phantom-share structure was also designed to prevent creators from owing taxes when points are initially awarded. Taxes would generally become relevant when a creator actually receives money.
That was the company’s explanation, not individual tax advice. Creators should speak with a qualified tax professional before relying on it.
How the Points System Would Work
Creators are expected to earn points based on three main categories:
- Revenue generated on MintStars
- Active participation on the platform
- Referrals of creators and fans
MintStars specifically said that a creator could still earn points by posting regularly even if they did not make sales. The company also plans to award points retroactively. That means creators who have already used and supported MintStars should receive some credit for their previous activity.
MintStars said the points formula would be visible and transparent so creators could understand how their total was calculated. At the time of the call, the points system, legal documents, and creator dashboard were not yet live.
A Creator Advisory Board Is Planned
MintStars also plans to create a creator advisory board. The tentative structure includes four creators. Two seats would go to the creators with the highest point totals, while two would be elected by the creator community.
The company compared the overall model to a cooperative, although it acknowledged that there are legal differences between this plan and a traditional co-op.
Paid Chat Is Now Live
The biggest feature that creators can use immediately is paid chat. Creators and fans can message one another without the fan first subscribing. Creators can block anyone they do not want contacting them.
Creators can send regular free messages or attach locked content with a price. The system currently supports paid images, videos, and audio. Tipping inside chat is also live.
All media has to pass through moderation before it can be sent. MintStars said moderation was taking around five seconds during internal testing, although actual approval times may vary.
Creators who regularly sell the same content were encouraged to upload it to their vault in advance. That should make it easier to attach approved media during a live conversation instead of waiting for moderation every time.
Pay Per Message Is Not Live Yet
Creators cannot currently set a fee that someone must pay for every message they send. MintStars said pay-per-message pricing is actively being developed as a follow-up update to chat.
The exact structure had not been finalized during the call. Creators generally expressed a preference for charging per message because it could create another consistent income stream.
The Minty Discord Bot Is Live
MintStars also launched Minty, a Discord bot designed to connect Discord communities with MintStars tipping tools. Creators can invite Minty to their servers through the connected accounts section of MintStars.
The bot can generate tipping links, announce tips, create randomized dice-roll tip amounts, link to a creator’s MintStars account, and run custom commands or Easter eggs. Creators can also customize Minty’s tone to fit their brand.
The bot may be especially useful for creators who run streams, game nights, financial domination activities, community chats, or subscriber events on Discord. Instead of asking fans to leave the conversation and manually find a payment page, Minty can create the tipping prompt inside the server.
MintStars asked creators to test the bot and report any problems or ideas to Emmy or support.
A Traditional Clip Store Is Coming
MintStars confirmed that a traditional clip store is now one of its main development priorities.
The company plans to move away from its original collectible and resale-based content model. The team admitted that the collectible system was more complicated than it needed to be and did not provide the straightforward selling experience many creators wanted.
The future clip store is expected to allow creators to upload and sell full-length videos as standard digital products. That would give creators another way to earn through individual video sales without requiring a subscription or direct conversation with the buyer.
The clip store was not live during the call, and MintStars did not provide a specific launch date.
MintStars Built Its Own Payment Gateway
A large part of the call focused on payment infrastructure. MintStars now controls the gateway technology used when a customer enters card information on the platform. This gives the company more control over fraud detection and allows it to connect with multiple acquiring partners.
Now that MintStars controls more of its own gateway and fraud detection, it plans to reactivate a United States acquiring partner, add more providers, and improve payment success rates. The company asked creators to report failed transactions with as much information as possible, including details from the customer when available.
MintPay Cards Are Still Limited
Creators can reportedly already access a MintPay virtual card.Physical MintPay cards are still in a limited testing phase. The company said approximately 10 test cards had been distributed.
MintStars discussed a possible requirement that creators earn $1,000 on the platform before receiving a physical card because issuing the cards is expensive.Creators who joined the original waitlist may receive priority after the testing phase, but the rollout and eligibility rules were not final.
This was another area where MintStars admitted its communication had not been clear.
Pay Per Message Is Not Live Yet
Creators cannot currently set a fee that someone must pay for every message they send. MintStars said pay-per-message pricing is actively being developed as a follow-up update to chat.
The exact structure had not been finalized during the call. Creators generally expressed a preference for charging per message because it could create another consistent income stream.
Some Questions Are Still Unresolved
Not every question received a firm answer during the call:
- A European creator asked why MintStars does not collect and remit VAT. The team said it had previously received legal and accounting advice that it was not required to do so because of how the service and Terms of Service were structured. However, no one could provide the exact explanation during the call. MintStars said it would locate the wording and publish clearer information. Until that happens, European creators should not treat the call as proof that they have no VAT obligations.
- The company also expressed interest in physical product sales, website integrations, webhooks, and live streaming, but none of those features had confirmed release dates.
- Past incentive programs are also under review. MintStars could not confirm whether an earlier payment for promoting the platform on Twitter was still active. Creators should verify any current incentive before completing promotional work with the expectation of being paid.
Note: AI features like transcription were used to compile the above section
Final Thoughts
The call started with them taking accountability, and ended with them sharing clear plans for the future and seeming to really listen to their creators. I am really excited for the creator advisory board, but am curious to see if the “point-appointed” structure rather than a democratized/hybrid structure will play out well. The traditional clip store will be damn good to see as I personally think that will make the platform seem more approachable to more users.
The announcements are hella promising, and I am very hopeful in seeing their roll out.
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