Ovation · x402
$0.01 — Every micro-funding event is a real-time production contribution. Backers fund 'Standing Ovations'—micropayments that unlock live backstage feeds, script drafts, and set design polls via EIP-3009. Instead of large VC tranches, the play is sustained by thousands of $0.01 'Standing O' signatures, creating a streaming revenue model for live performance that settles instantly to the cast and crew's Privy wallets.
The primitive.
Directors pay 0.01 USDC per fundraising unlock via the x402 paywall on Sei Testnet (atlantic-2) — no gas, no wallet popup, just a signed EIP-3009 authorization that our own in-app facilitator settles onchain.
Why this primitiveShifts theatrical funding from a high-friction investment model (DAO tokens) to a high-velocity consumption model. Using x402, fans 'pay-to-influence' or 'pay-to-view' in tiny increments, turning the audience into a real-time, micro-financing engine for independent performance.
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Build "Ovation" in ONE Lovable message. Single-page x402-native paid app on Sei Devnet (arctic-1).
CONCEPT
$0.01 — Every micro-funding event is a real-time production contribution. Backers fund 'Standing Ovations'—micropayments that unlock live backstage feeds, script drafts, and set design polls via EIP-3009. Instead of large VC tranches, the play is sustained by thousands of $0.01 'Standing O' signatures, creating a streaming revenue model for live performance that settles instantly to the cast and crew's Privy wallets.
Discipline: Theater & Live Performance (fundraising).
Onchain primitive: x402 micropayments on Sei Devnet arctic-1 (USDC via EIP-3009). Why: Shifts theatrical funding from a high-friction investment model (DAO tokens) to a high-velocity consumption model. Using x402, fans 'pay-to-influence' or 'pay-to-view' in tiny increments, turning the audience into a real-time, micro-financing engine for independent performance.
5-CREDIT BUDGET (HARD LIMIT):
- ONE single-page app. No Lovable Cloud, no database, no auth flows beyond Privy drop-in.
- NO smart contract deploy. x402 settles USDC via EIP-3009 `transferWithAuthorization` — the USDC contract already exists at 0x4E4a29F76Cd0dff2A4e5e56D7A065E0aF33f32e2 on Sei Devnet arctic-1 (chainId 713715).
- Privy is the auth + signing layer (Google login + embedded wallet).
- At most ONE AI call per user action (Lovable AI Gateway with LOVABLE_API_KEY, only if AI is part of the idea).
- Skip tests, skip CI, skip docs. Ship the demo.
CHAIN CHOICE (non-obvious — read before you swap chains)
PayAI's x402 facilitator settles Sei traffic ONLY on Sei Devnet arctic-1 (chainId 713715, deprecated per chainid.network but live at facilitator). It does NOT settle on Sei Testnet atlantic-2 (chainId 1328). Do not swap for atlantic-2 — the EIP-712 domain will mismatch and PayAI returns `invalid_signature`.
STACK
- React + Vite + TanStack Start (the template Lovable ships).
- viem does NOT export arctic-1. Define it once in src/lib/sei-arctic.ts:
import { defineChain } from "viem";
export const seiArctic = defineChain({
id: 713715, name: "Sei Devnet (arctic-1)",
nativeCurrency: { name: "Sei", symbol: "SEI", decimals: 18 },
rpcUrls: { default: { http: ["https://evm-rpc-arctic-1.sei-apis.com"] } },
blockExplorers: { default: { name: "Seiscan", url: "https://testnet.seiscan.io" } },
testnet: true,
});
- Privy embedded wallet, lazy + client-only mount (`@privy-io/react-auth` crashes under SSR):
import { seiArctic } from "@/lib/sei-arctic";
<PrivyProvider appId={import.meta.env.VITE_PRIVY_APP_ID}
config={{ loginMethods:['google'],
embeddedWallets:{ ethereum:{ createOnLogin:'users-without-wallets' } },
defaultChain: seiArctic as never,
supportedChains: [seiArctic] as never }}>
- viem public client uses the arctic-1 RPC — put it in src/data/rpc.json as
{ "seiArctic": "https://evm-rpc-arctic-1.sei-apis.com" } and use
createPublicClient({ chain: seiArctic, transport: http(rpc.seiArctic) }).
TEN NON-OBVIOUS x402 RULES (get these wrong and it silently fails)
1. CORS: proxy the facilitator. Public x402 facilitators (including x402.payai.network) do NOT send
Access-Control-Allow-Origin. A direct browser fetch throws "TypeError: Failed to fetch" BEFORE
you see the 402. Wrap the upstream call in a same-origin TanStack server route at
src/routes/api/public/x402-proxy.ts and forward PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (request) + PAYMENT-RESPONSE (response).
2. x402 v2 envelope shape. The base64-encoded PAYMENT-SIGNATURE payload is NOT
{ scheme, network, payload } at top level — that's v1 and PayAI rejects it as invalid_payload.
It MUST be:
{ "x402Version": 2,
"accepted": { /* the full PaymentRequirement you picked, echoed back verbatim */ },
"payload": { "signature": "0x…",
"authorization": { from, to, value, validAfter, validBefore, nonce } } }
3. Network id is CAIP-2: "eip155:713715" for Sei Devnet arctic-1 (NOT "sei-testnet" and NOT "eip155:1328").
Match on this when picking a requirement from accepts[].
4. Amount field renamed. v2 uses `amount` (atomic units, string), NOT v1's `maxAmountRequired`.
USDC has 6 decimals — "10000" = 0.01 USDC.
5. Header names are literal-cased and non-standard: PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (request) and PAYMENT-RESPONSE (response).
6. EIP-3009 domain fields come from requirement.extra. Use extra.name ("USDC") and extra.version ("2")
in the EIP-712 domain — NOT hardcoded. chainId is 713715; verifyingContract is requirement.asset.
7. nonce is bytes32 random, generated client-side (crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(32)) → 0x-hex).
Never reuse. validAfter = now-60s, validBefore = now + maxTimeoutSeconds (default 300).
8. Sign via Privy embedded wallet's provider, NOT React hooks: get the EIP-1193 provider
(const provider = await embedded.getEthereumProvider()) and call
provider.request({ method: "eth_signTypedData_v4", params: [address, JSON.stringify(typedData)] }).
9. Use the arctic-1 RPC from src/data/rpc.json (rule above). USDC balanceOf against a random public RPC will flake.
10. Fund flow: NO public USDC faucet on arctic-1. Show the user's Privy address prominently,
link them to arctic-1 SEI faucet (https://sei-faucet.nima.enterprises) for gas (not actually
required — x402 is gasless — but reassuring), and add a UI note asking to DM PayAI / a
maintainer for 0.10 arctic-1 USDC. Then a "Refresh balance" button.
FILE LAYOUT
src/data/x402.json { endpoint, proxy, usdcAddress: "0x4E4a29F76Cd0dff2A4e5e56D7A065E0aF33f32e2",
chainId: 713715, network: "eip155:713715",
faucetUrl: "https://sei-faucet.nima.enterprises",
explorer: "https://testnet.seiscan.io" }
src/data/rpc.json { "seiArctic": "https://evm-rpc-arctic-1.sei-apis.com" }
src/lib/sei-arctic.ts defineChain wrapper (viem has no arctic-1 export)
src/lib/x402.ts fetchChallenge / pickRequirement / signPayment / fetchPaid
src/routes/api/public/x402-proxy.ts same-origin GET proxy (below)
src/routes/index.tsx demo UI: sign-in → fund → 4-step flow log
PROXY ROUTE (drop-in — copy verbatim):
```ts
// src/routes/api/public/x402-proxy.ts
import { createFileRoute } from "@tanstack/react-router";
import x402Cfg from "@/data/x402.json";
export const Route = createFileRoute("/api/public/x402-proxy")({
server: {
handlers: {
GET: async ({ request }) => {
const sig = request.headers.get("PAYMENT-SIGNATURE");
const upstream = await fetch(x402Cfg.endpoint, {
method: "GET",
headers: sig ? { "PAYMENT-SIGNATURE": sig } : {},
});
const body = await upstream.arrayBuffer();
const out = new Headers();
const ct = upstream.headers.get("content-type");
if (ct) out.set("Content-Type", ct);
const pr = upstream.headers.get("PAYMENT-RESPONSE");
if (pr) out.set("PAYMENT-RESPONSE", pr);
return new Response(body, { status: upstream.status, headers: out });
},
},
},
});
```
The /api/public/* prefix bypasses Lovable's published-site auth — desired for a demo endpoint.
USER FLOW (log every step in the UI so the user sees what happened)
1. Land on page → "Sign in with Google" (Privy) → embedded wallet auto-provisioned on Sei Devnet arctic-1.
2. Fund: show wallet address + "Get 0.01 USDC on Sei arctic-1" → link to PayAI Discord / maintainer for USDC
→ "Refresh balance" button reads USDC balanceOf via viem + the arctic-1 RPC.
3. Click the primary action button for this idea (fundraising). App runs:
(a) Challenge — GET /api/public/x402-proxy → expect 402 → parse { x402Version:2, accepts:[…], error }.
Pick accepts[] where network === "eip155:713715" && scheme === "exact".
(b) Sign — Build EIP-3009 typed data (see rules 6–8), call Privy signTypedData,
wrap into the v2 envelope (rule 2), base64.
(c) Retry — GET /api/public/x402-proxy with header PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: <base64>.
(d) Settle — On 200, read PAYMENT-RESPONSE header, base64-decode →
{ success, transaction, network, payer }. Link tx to `${explorer}/tx/${transaction}`.
4. Footer renders: "Built during the Creative AI & Quantum Hackathon organised by StreetKode Fam during Indian Krump Festival 14"
FACILITATOR
Default endpoint: https://x402.payai.network/api/sei-testnet/paid-content (returns 402 with an
accepts[] challenge, settles 0.01 USDC per successful call on Sei Devnet arctic-1, returns the
protected payload). Note: PayAI's path is called "sei-testnet" but the underlying chain is
arctic-1 (chainId 713715), not atlantic-2 (chainId 1328).
REQUIRED SECRETS (Lovable → Project Settings → Secrets):
- PRIVY_APP_ID Google sign-in + embedded wallet. In the Privy dashboard, add Sei Devnet
(713715, RPC https://evm-rpc-arctic-1.sei-apis.com). No Gas Sponsorship
policy needed (x402 is gasless). Docs: https://docs.privy.io/llms-full.txt
COMMON FAILURE MODES (fix these before shipping)
- "TypeError: Failed to fetch" at step (a): called the facilitator directly from the browser. Use the proxy.
- "invalid_payload" at step (c): sent v1 envelope. Wrap under `accepted` (rule 2).
- "invalid_signature": wrong domain — chainId mismatch (must be 713715, not 1328), or extra.version
hardcoded to "1". Use chainId 713715 and extra.version from the requirement.
- "insufficient_funds": wallet has SEI but no USDC. Request arctic-1 USDC from PayAI / maintainer,
then Refresh balance.
- Balance stays at 0 after funding: reading against the wrong RPC. Point at
https://evm-rpc-arctic-1.sei-apis.com via rpc.json (NOT the atlantic-2 RPC).
- expires_at errors on retry: clock skew or reused nonce. Generate fresh nonce + timestamps per attempt.
CREDIT (must appear in UI footer):
Built during the Creative AI & Quantum Hackathon organised by StreetKode Fam during Indian Krump Festival 14
Market sizing.
Indicative figures for hackathon pitches — refine with your own research before raising.