Creative Blockchain
🎨 Visual Art · painting provenance tracking

Digital Canvas Ledger

Record and pin painted artwork metadata to IPFS for permanent, tamper-proof provenance.

IPFS via Pinata· decentralized storage
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

Every painting provenance tracking artefact is pinned to IPFS through Pinata and anchored in a Hedera Consensus Service message; painters get a permanent CID plus a consensus timestamp instead of a fragile cloud URL.

Why this primitivePinata’s IPFS pinning ensures metadata immutability and easy retrieval for provenance.

Kernel
a Pinata JWT upload that pins images / JSON / manifests to IPFS and returns a permanent CID, anchored in an HCS topic message
Drives the UI as
a 'pinned to IPFS' chip with the CID, the HCS sequence number and a gateway preview
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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Hedera testnet HashScan ↗
Appendix · Market

Market sizing.

TAM
$10B
global art provenance solutions
SAM
$2.7B
provenance platforms for painters
SOM
$500M
subscription provenance verification

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

See also

Adjacent entries.

color palette curation
PermaColor Archive
Secure and share your unique color palettes as permanent IPFS references.
algorithmic artwork storage
Generative Art Vault
Pin generative art scripts and outputs permanently to preserve creative provenance.
exhibition cataloging
Gallery Manifest Hub
Create and pin permanent digital manifests for art gallery exhibitions with immutable records.
portfolio archiving
Illustrator Portfolio Lock
Permanently store and share your illustrator portfolios with verifiable IPFS links.