💃 Dance & Choreography · social engagement

StepStakes · x402

Turn every dance battle into a micro-stakes arena. Users sign a 0.01 USDC x402 authorization to 'Drop' a challenge or 'Enter' a bracket. The micropayment stakes the entry, auto-unlocks the music license, and triggers the judge's AI scoring engine. No gas, just pure pay-to-play competition where the top 10% of scorers split the pool of entry pennies. Use your Magic Link email sign-in to sign—your move is your transaction.

Hedera testnet + x402 paywall· x402 native
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

Access to the social engagement engine is metered with x402: 0.01 HBAR or 0.01 HTS USDC per call, paid from the embedded wallet, so choreographers — or the agents working for them — pay per query and get a HashScan receipt every time.

Why this primitiveBy replacing 'free' with a $0.01 entry fee, we filter for quality and create an automated prize pool. The x402 mechanism handles the music royalty micro-distribution and the AI compute cost for pose estimation in a single, frictionless signature.

Kernel
an x402 v2 paywall metering access at 0.01 HBAR or 0.01 HTS USDC (token 0.0.429274) per call, paid from the embedded wallet through the relay and verified by a self-hosted facilitator against the Hedera mirror node
Drives the UI as
a 'pay 0.01 HBAR or USDC to unlock' button with a live flow log and a HashScan link for every settlement
Appendix · Secrets

Required keys.

HEDERA_OPERATOR_ID
Hedera testnet account id (0.0.xxxxxx). Create and fund it free.
open ↗
HEDERA_OPERATOR_KEY
ECDSA private key for that account, from the Hedera portal dashboard.
open ↗
REOWN_PROJECT_ID
Free project id powering the HashPack pairing modal.
open ↗
HEDERA_RPC_URL
Optional. JSON-RPC relay, defaults to the public Hashio endpoint.
open ↗
PINATA_JWT
Pins images / JSON / manifests to IPFS.
open ↗

Add these in your Lovable project under Settings → Secrets before pasting the prompt below.

Appendix · Mega-prompt

The build prompt.

Paste into a fresh Lovable project. Make sure all five secrets above are set first. read the build strategy →

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Appendix · Market

Market sizing.

TAM
$2.4B
The global social creator economy and casual mobile gaming market.
SAM
$120M
Global digital dance competition market and viral creator challenges.
SOM
$8.5M
High-frequency social dancers on Hedera using mobile-first embedded wallets.

Indicative figures for hackathon pitches — refine with your own research before raising.

See also

Adjacent entries.