✍️ Writing, Poetry & Narrative · story ownership

InkLock · x402

Turn plot-squatting into a high-velocity speculative market. Pay 0.01 USDC to timestamp and cryptographically anchor a narrative premise to your wallet. Every time another writer 'branches' or references your anchor, the x402 protocol handles the micro-settlement. Writing isn't just expression; it's a metered claim on the global story graph.

Hedera testnet + x402 paywall· x402 native
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

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

Why this primitiveBy shifting from 'free proof' to 'paid anchoring,' the act of registration gains economic weight. If it costs to claim, the signal-to-noise ratio improves, and the HTS transfer flow makes 'protecting an idea' as low-friction as a keystroke.

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
$280B
The global Intellectual Property and Publishing industry, moving toward micro-attribution.
SAM
$1.4B
The nascent 'Agentic Content' market where AI agents pay to license human-authored narrative seeds to prevent hallucination cycles.
SOM
$18M
Targeted spend from independent screenwriters and web-fiction authors using Base to secure IP before public posting.

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

See also

Adjacent entries.