🎨 Visual Art · digital rights management

Vernissage · x402

Turn digital art into a metered asset. Every time a designer previews a high-res asset, references a style, or transfers a commercial license, a 0.01 USDC x402 stream settles instantly. No subscriptions, just sub-cent payments triggered by the act of creation. Creators get paid for every 'look,' and users pay only for the pixels they use.

Hedera testnet + x402 paywall· x402 native
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

Access to the digital rights management 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 primitiveCurrent DRM is binary (bought/not bought). x402 introduces 'granular licensing'—allowing artists to monetize the friction of previewing and the finality of rights transfer through high-velocity micropayments, reducing barrier to entry for buyers.

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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Appendix · Market

Market sizing.

TAM
$4.5B
The global digital asset management and stock imagery market shifting towards micro-licensing.
SAM
$800M
The addressable market for independent illustrators and small-scale digital agencies transitioning to onchain workflows.
SOM
$12M
Transaction volume from 100k active licenses generating an average of 10 micropayment events (previews/verifications) per day.

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

See also

Adjacent entries.