Creative Blockchain
🎨 Visual Art · art ownership tracking

HardTrace · Pay to Anchor

Trade paper trails for a micro-paid, immutable ledger of truth. One 0.01 USDC payment over x402 anchors the WOTS+ seal on-chain — no subscription, no account.

x402 track · paid unlockPay-to-anchor· paid provenance
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

Painters pay 0.01 USDC once, in-page, and the art ownership tracking seal is written on-chain for them — no funded host-chain wallet, no subscription, just a payment log that ends in a real transaction.

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Kernel
a 0.01 USDC payment over x402 on Base Sepolia that buys one on-chain anchor — the server verifies the settlement, then a relayer writes the user's WOTS+ seal into the QUIP verifier on the host chain
Drives the UI as
a numbered payment log running from 402 challenge to settled USDC to the host-chain anchor tx, every hash a clickable explorer link
Appendix · Secrets

Required keys.

METAMASK_PRIVATE_KEY
Deploys the QUIP verifier to your host chain. Fund on Sepolia via the Google Cloud faucet.
open ↗
SEPOLIA_RPC_URL
Host-chain HTTPS RPC endpoint. Any Sepolia provider works.
open ↗
ETHERSCAN_API_KEY
Required for npx hardhat verify after deploy.
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
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SAM
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SOM
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Indicative figures for hackathon pitches — refine with your own research before raising.

See also

Adjacent entries.

art ownership tracking
Provenance Palette
Securely track and prove the ownership lineage of paintings with tamper-proof blockchain records. Ownership is sealed inside a post-quantum QUIP vault.
creative process timestamping
STROKE · Pay to Anchor
Provenance-as-a-Service for digital painters. Instead of bulk-uploading finished pieces, artists call the QUIP endpoint to anchor specific strokes or layers to Base in real-time. Zero-friction creative audit trails. One 0.01 USDC payment over x402 anchors the WOTS+ seal on-chain — no subscription, no account.
commission workflow management
Proof of Stroke · Pay to Anchor
Eliminate the friction of 'half upfront' deposits. Artists publish gated progressive layers (sketches, linework, flats) that patrons unlock instantly via EIP-3009. Every feedback loop or high-res export is a micro-settled transaction on Ethereum Sepolia. Payment becomes the heartbeat of the creative workflow, protecting the artist's time while giving the patron an 'undo' button at any milestone. One 0.01 USDC payment over x402 anchors the WOTS+ seal on-chain — no subscription, no account.
gamified art auctions
VELOCITY VOTE · Pay to Anchor
Bid-to-Stroke: the auction is the creation. Every micro-payment moves the price floor and extends the timer. The final frame is minted as an NFT to the highest spender, with all 'bid-calls' distributed to the artist in real-time. Payment isn't just a bid; it's the brushstroke. One 0.01 USDC payment over x402 anchors the WOTS+ seal on-chain — no subscription, no account.