🎨 Visual Art · art auction transparency

Hammer · x402

A high-stakes bidding protocol where every bid is a sealed commitment requiring a 0.01 USDC x402 'Skin-in-the-Game' fee. This eliminates bid shading and ghost bidding by making every price discovery action a micro-settled transaction on Hedera. Pay per bid, pay per provenance check, and pay to reveal the final hammer price.

Hedera testnet + x402 paywall· x402 native
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

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

Why this primitiveBy turning bids into paid micropayments, we filter for genuine intent and create a sustainable revenue model for auction houses that scales with activity rather than just commissions.

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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Appendix · Market

Market sizing.

TAM
$67B
The global traditional art market transitioning to verifiable digital provenance.
SAM
$1.2B
Digital-native and RWA art collectors utilizing Base for onchain auctions.
SOM
$45M
Onchain fine art auctions and generative art drop platforms requiring anti-bot bidding.

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

See also

Adjacent entries.