🎨 Visual Art · painting provenance tracking

Brushmark · x402

Every stroke's lineage, verified. $0.01 per provenance update to cryptographically anchor painting metadata, high-res scans, and transfer history. No subscriptions—just pay-per-pin to mint a bulletproof chain of custody that travels with the physical piece. At time of sale, buyers pay a micro-fee to verify the ledger, ensuring zero-knowledge authenticity.

Hedera testnet + x402 paywall· x402 native
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

Access to the painting provenance tracking 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 provenance into a pay-per-event utility, we eliminate the friction of high-cost art registry services. x402 allows for granular logging (canvas prep, mid-painting, completion) that builds a dense value-graph for the artwork.

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.
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
$3.2B
The global art authentication and provenance tracking market as it transitions to distributed trust.
SAM
$180M
The addressable market for digital certificates in the high-end contemporary and emerging art sectors.
SOM
$12M
Serving the 'Phygital' and independent artist community using Base for low-cost on-chain verification.

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

See also

Adjacent entries.