Creative Blockchain
🎭 Theater & Live Performance · performance sponsorship

Spotlight · x402

A hyper-granular sponsorship engine where brands pay-per-mention or pay-per-frame. Instead of bulk seasonal contracts, performers gate specific show moments (opening monologues, set-piece reveals, curtain calls) behind 0.01 USDC micro-sponsorships. Fans or local businesses stream payments in real-time to trigger on-stage digital displays or shout-outs, settled instantly to the performer's wallet.

Hedera testnet + x402 paywall· x402 native
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

Access to the performance sponsorship 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 sponsorship is lumpy and formal. x402 turns live performance into a metered inventory of 'attention slots,' allowing high-velocity micro-deals that bypass legal friction and aggregate into meaningful revenue for indie theater.

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
$14.5B - The global event sponsorship market shifting toward digitized, granular attribution and automated payouts.
SAM
$850M - Digital-native experimental theater, fringe festivals, and live-streamed performance art.
SOM
$12M - Boutique performance spaces in tech hubs using decentralized infrastructure for show funding.

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

See also

Adjacent entries.

performance sponsorship
SponsorSpotlight
Connect sponsors and shows with onchain contracts signed via social login and no gas fees.
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.