Creative Blockchain
🎨 Visual Art · physical palette digitization

Pigment Archive · Agent Pay

A high-fidelity pipeline for digitizing physical artist palettes and extracting their exact hex-code DNA. Artists can gate their unique 'color secrets' or historic mixes behind QUIP micropayments. Each use generates a Base tx hash, establishing an immutable provenance trail for the artist's specific color theory and material choice. The endpoint is priced in USDC over x402, so an autonomous agent can pay for itself without an API key.

x402 track · paid unlockAgent-payable endpoint· machine payments
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

The physical palette digitization endpoint publishes its own price, so an autonomous agent can pay and retry with no API key — painters watch a machine buy the answer beside a human doing the same thing.

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Kernel
an endpoint whose price, asset and payee are published in its own 402 response, so an autonomous agent can discover the terms, pay in USDC and retry with no API key and no signup
Drives the UI as
a side-by-side view of the human client and an in-page agent running the same request → 402 → pay → retry loop
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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Open in Lovable ↗Sepolia Etherscan ↗
Appendix · Market

Market sizing.

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

See also

Adjacent entries.

physical palette digitization
Provenance Palette
Digitize and mint physical palette images as NFTs preserving unique artist color mixes. The creator's existing wallet is wrapped with a post-quantum commitment.
color authenticity validation
TrueHue · Agent Pay
A protocol for true-spectrum validation. The app hashes hexadecimal sequences against high-resolution pixel data, creating a permanent on-chain record of authenticity that prevents color-shifting theft or AI-generated replicas. Pay-per-certification for artists; pay-per-verification for collectors. The endpoint is priced in USDC over x402, so an autonomous agent can pay for itself without an API key.
peer-to-peer art exchange
CanvasSwap · Agent Pay
Curate and trade digital canvases where every view, bid, and swap is metered via micropayments. Settlement occurs instantly, turning low-fidelity discovery into high-signal liquidity. The endpoint is priced in USDC over x402, so an autonomous agent can pay for itself without an API key.
peer review logging
Critiq · Agent Pay
Turn the 'starving artist' trope into a high-fidelity feedback loop. Critiq operates as a metered critique engine where every peer review, redline, or technical teardown is a paid micro-transaction. Every critique is a signed EIP-3009 receipt, creating a verifiable provenance of an artist's growth. The endpoint is priced in USDC over x402, so an autonomous agent can pay for itself without an API key.