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🎥 Videography & Film · archival footage

DeepCut · x402

A pay-per-view engine for high-resolution archival masters. Instead of subscription silos or clunky NFT minting, filmmakers pay 0.01 USDC to instantly unlock and download water-mark free historic b-roll. Each playback or download triggers a direct micro-settlement to the original archive holder via HTS transfer, making the price-per-clip small enough for hobbyists but scalable for documentary production suites.

Hedera testnet + x402 paywall· x402 native
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

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

Why this primitiveShifts archival access from a high-friction licensing process to a frictionless, metered utility. By using x402, the payment becomes the 'access key,' turning deep-catalog footage into a liquid, pay-as-you-go API for editors.

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.
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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
$4.2B
The global stock footage and digital asset management market, increasingly pivoting toward automated micro-licensing.
SAM
$850M
The documentary and stock footage licensing sector specifically for digital-first creators and indie filmmakers.
SOM
$12M
Initial capture of the Base-native creator economy and decentralized production studios requiring quick, verifiable archival assets.

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

See also

Adjacent entries.

archival footage
ClipMint Archival
Mint archival footage as NFTs to certify origin and enable monetization of historic clips.
video copyright
FrameGuard · x402
$0.01 — Per-frame attestation. A micropayment-metered verification engine for filmmakers. Protect your raw files by anchoring unique visual fingerprints to Base at the moment of capture. Producers pay per timestamp to generate a legally verifiable chain of custody, effectively ending deepfake disputes and metadata stripping. AI scraping agents must pay the x402 toll to verify rights before inclusion in training sets.
edit history
CUTSCENE · x402
A provable version-control layer for post-production. $0.01 per version commit creates an immutable, timestamped 'state-save' on Hedera. Pay to pull the history of any clip, ensuring editors get paid per revision and directors have a verifiable audit trail of every frame change. No more 'Final_Final_v2.mp4' confusion.
licensed assets
RawCut · x402
A granular video asset mart where creators pay-per-frame to license raw B-roll. No subscriptions, no bulky contracts—0.01 USDC triggers an instant HTS transfer transfer that fetches a high-res, watermarked-removed download link via the facilitator. Ideal for short-form editors who need a single 3-second transition without buying a $50/mo library access.