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🎮 Game Design & Interactive Media · competition scoring

HIGH SCORE · x402

A competitive leaderboard primitive where entries and votes are metered. Developers pay $0.01 to commit a high-score hash to the chain, and players pay $0.01 to verify their rank or cast a weighted vote. Frictionless, micro-stakes skin-in-the-game for global game jams.

Hedera testnet + x402 paywall· x402 native
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

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

Why this primitiveTraditional game jams suffer from 'vote botting.' By requiring an HTS transfer signed micropayment for every score submission and vote, you create a sybil-resistant economic barrier that validates the integrity of the leaderboard without the friction of large transaction fees.

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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Hedera testnet HashScan ↗
Appendix · Market

Market sizing.

TAM
$2.5B
The global eSports and casual competitive gaming infrastructure market.
SAM
$480M
The estimated value of the hyper-casual game market and indie dev tools space seeking verifiable competition integrity.
SOM
$12M
High-stakes indie game jams, hackathons, and speedrunning communities requiring verifiable audit trails.

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

See also

Adjacent entries.

competition scoring
Onchain Game Jam Scores
Publish and verify game jam scores on Hedera testnet to ensure fairness and public recognition.
quest tracking
Milestone · x402
Turn every quest step into a verifiable micro-transaction. Players pay $0.01 USDC to sign 'Proof-of-Completion' for individual milestones, instantly updating a global leaderboard. Developers monetize gameplay depth through high-frequency, low-friction state updates rather than binary loot boxes. Fractionalize game progress: pay-per-checkpoint, pay-per-achievement, and pay-to-audit.
item distribution
LootCrack · x402
A high-frequency loot-cycling engine where players pay 0.01 USDC to 'crack' regional drop-tables. Instead of subscription-based RNG, every item acquisition is a discrete micropayment transaction. Use x402 to meter high-value item reveals, ensuring that rare 'Legendary' pulls generate immediate protocol revenue while providing players with a cryptographic receipt of authenticity on Hedera.
community trust
Proof of Honor · x402
$0.01 — pay-per-vouch. A high-integrity matchmaking layer where players pay to submit peer reviews and developers pay to query the 'Karma' API. By attaching a micro-cost to reputation, you eliminate sybil attacks and bot-spam, ensuring that only skin-in-the-game sentiment defines a player's standing. No free reports, no fake fluff.