📷 Photography · macro photography

MacroMint Origins

Authenticate original macro shots with creator-owned NFTs.

IPFS via Pinata· decentralized storage

Section · Onchain

The primitive.

Every macro photography artifact is pinned to IPFS through Pinata; photographers get a permanent CID and a public gateway preview instead of a fragile cloud URL.

Why this primitivePinning the payload to IPFS via Pinata gives a permanent CID; the CID's hash gets anchored to Bitcoin testnet4 so the storage layer is verifiable.

Kernel

a Pinata JWT upload that pins images / JSON / manifests to IPFS and returns a permanent CID — the payload behind every OP_RETURN hash and inscription

Drives the UI as

a 'pinned to IPFS' chip with the CID and an ipfs.io gateway preview

Appendix · Secrets

Required keys.

PRIVY_APP_ID

Privy dashboard → your app. Configure with chainType 'spark' to mint Bitcoin L2 wallets on sign-in.

open ↗

PRIVY_APP_SECRET

Server-side. Required for the merchant Spark wallet to observe incoming sats transfers via the Privy RPC.

open ↗

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.

self-contained

Paste into a fresh Lovable project — it carries its own feature spec, code, setup and checklist. read the build strategy →

loading the build spec…

Open in Lovable ↗mempool.space testnet4 ↗

Appendix · Market

Market sizing.

TAM

$2.4B

photography software market

SAM

$90M

macro photography niche

SOM

$9M

provenance tools for macro artists

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

Adjacent entries.

asset management

Privy Photo Assets

Manage photo assets onchain with no gas fees for easy organization and sharing.

content monetization