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🎥 Videography & Film · promotional cuts

Cuts · x402

TrailerTrace operates as a decentralized CDN for film marketing where viewers or distributors pay 0.01 USDC per stream-unlock. Instead of high-friction subscriptions, studios meter high-fidelity trailer access and press-kit downloads. Each x402 payment triggers an immediate HTS transfer transfer, returning a Hedera transaction id that acts as a cryptographically verifiable 'proof-of-view' and release-date timestamp. For creators, it's a 'pay-per-frame' distribution model that eliminates ad-revenue middlemen.

Hedera testnet + x402 paywall· x402 native
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

Access to the promotional cuts 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 primitiveBy moving from a one-time 'minting' event to a 'pay-per-access' model, the studio generates granular revenue from every single engagement while establishing an immutable audit trail of who accessed the footage and when.

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 →

Loading the mega-prompt…
Hedera testnet HashScan ↗
Appendix · Market

Market sizing.

TAM
$4.2B
The global movie trailer and promotional content industry transitioning to digital-first licensing.
SAM
$850M
The global digital film marketing and electronic press kit (EPK) distribution market.
SOM
$12M
Independent film festivals and agencies using Base for transparent promotional asset tracking.

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

See also

Adjacent entries.

promotional cuts
TrailerTrace Mint
Securely mint promotional trailers as NFTs to confirm authenticity and release dates.
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.