🎨 Visual Art · painting portfolios

Provenance · x402

A programmable provenance layer for physical art. Collectors pay 0.05 USDC to verify a painting's high-res authenticity history or 'dip' into a painter’s process reel. Artists meter access to private viewing rooms and high-fidelity source files, turning the traditional portfolio into a per-view economy. Each view returns a Hedera transaction id, cryptographically linking the interest to the asset.

Hedera testnet + x402 paywall· x402 native
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

Access to the painting portfolios 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 primitiveShifts the portfolio from a static resume to a metered discovery engine. By charging micro-fees for verifiable history, it filters for high-intent collectors and provides immediate micropayment liquidity to artists for their digital 'footprint' without requiring a full NFT sale.

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.
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PINATA_JWT
Pins images / JSON / manifests to IPFS.
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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 fine art market moving toward transparent, metered digital authentication.
SAM
$450M
The digital art market and fine art insurance/verification sector transitioning to on-chain tracking.
SOM
$12M
Independent contemporary painters using Base for verifiable digital provenance.

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

See also

Adjacent entries.