🎭 Theater & Live Performance · royalty distribution

PromptPlay · x402

The stage-play script is no longer a static PDF; it's a dynamic asset. Every time a director, student, or local theater group opens a digital scene for rehearsal, x402 settles a 0.05 USDC micro-royalty. This stream is instantly split via smart contract to the playwright, the translator, and the estate. No more chasing community theaters for licensing fees—payouts happen per-read, per-rehearsal, and per-performance unlock.

Hedera testnet + x402 paywall· x402 native
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

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

Why this primitiveTraditional licensing is a friction-filled 'all or nothing' upfront cost. By metering script access at the 'scene' or 'read' level, we capture the massive long-tail of informal rehearsals and educational uses that currently go unpaid. transaction logic is embedded in the act of reading.

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.

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Appendix · Market

Market sizing.

TAM
$11B
Total global intellectual property royalty management for live performance.
SAM
$1.2B
The licensing and royalty market for amateur and regional theater.
SOM
$45M
Niche focus on digital script distribution for schools and experimental theater collectives.

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

See also

Adjacent entries.

royalty distribution
ScriptRoyalty Split
Automate fair payouts to playwrights, directors, and actors using onchain royalty splits.
playwright collaboration
DraftFlow · x402
Pay-per-contribution script evolution. Every time a playwright pushes a new scene, dialogue tweak, or stage direction, the production pays a $0.01 micro-royalty. This turns the script into a living, metered asset where writers are paid for the act of creation in real-time. Producers unlock specific drafts or 'forks' of a play for rehearsal by paying a settled $0.01 fee per actor access, ensuring the creative sweat equity is instantly monetized and timestamped on-chain.
casting marketplace
StageRead · x402
A high-frequency talent scout protocol where every audition tape submission and casting call 'side' download is a micro-settlement. Directors pay $0.01 to unlock a performer's reel, and actors pay $0.01 to commit their encrypted audition data to the chain. This replaces monthly subscription models with a 'pay-per-opportunity' architecture, preventing platform bloat and ensuring only high-intent interactions between talent and production.
lighting rights management
LumenSync · x402
A protocol for lighting designers to meter the 'burn' of their intellectual property. Lighting consoles ping the x402 endpoint to unlock specific DMX map frames or complex Chamsys/MA3 sequence macros. Venues pay 0.01 USDC per cue-trigger or per-minute of 'look' duration, ensuring designers are compensated for every performance without complex manual auditing.