🎵 Music & Sound Design · music competitions

Gasless Beat Battles

Host onchain beat battles allowing creators to compete and vote without paying blockchain fees.

Privy social + sponsored tx· wallet UX
Section · Onchain

The primitive.

full primer →

Musicians sign in with Google through Privy — no seed phrase, no MetaMask popup — and their music competitions actions are sent as sponsored transactions so they never see gas.

Why this primitiveSponsored transactions and seamless wallets enable mass participation without gas deterrents.

Kernel
Privy embedded wallet bootstrapped with PRIVY_APP_ID — Google sign-in plus sponsored Base Sepolia transactions so users never see gas
Drives the UI as
a one-click 'Sign in with Google' that drops the user straight into the app with an onchain identity
Appendix · Secrets

Required keys.

METAMASK_PRIVATE_KEY
Exported from MetaMask. Fund on Base Sepolia via the Coinbase faucet.
open ↗
BASE_SEPOLIA_RPC_URL
Alchemy Base Sepolia HTTPS endpoint (or https://sepolia.base.org).
open ↗
ETHERSCAN_API_KEY
Single Etherscan v2 key — covers BaseScan (chainId 84532) with no extra key.
open ↗
PRIVY_APP_ID
Enables Google sign-in and sponsored Base Sepolia transactions.
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.

Paste into a fresh Lovable project. Make sure all five secrets above are set first. read the build strategy →

Build "Gasless Beat Battles" in ONE Lovable message. Single-page demo.

CONCEPT
Host onchain beat battles allowing creators to compete and vote without paying blockchain fees.
Discipline: Music & Sound Design (music competitions).
Onchain primitive: Privy social + sponsored tx. Why this primitive: Sponsored transactions and seamless wallets enable mass participation without gas deterrents.

5-CREDIT BUDGET (HARD LIMIT):
- ONE single-page app. No router, no Lovable Cloud, no database, no auth flows beyond Privy drop-in.
- ONE Solidity contract, <=80 lines, deployed to Base Sepolia (chainId 84532), verified on BaseScan.
- Privy is always the auth + sponsored-tx layer (Google login, embedded wallet).
- Pinata/IPFS only if the idea genuinely needs to store a file or metadata.
- At most ONE AI call per user action (use Lovable AI Gateway with LOVABLE_API_KEY if AI is part of the idea).
- Skip tests, skip CI, skip docs pages. Ship the demo, nothing else.

STACK
- React + Vite single page (the index route).
- Privy embedded wallet — NATIVE Privy gas sponsorship on Base Sepolia (no ZeroDev,
  no smart-account SDK, no bundler). The EOA embedded wallet is the tx sender;
  Privy's paymaster covers gas so the user sees US$0.00.
- `defaultChain` and `supportedChains` MUST be a REAL viem `defineChain` object,
  not a `{ id, name }` stub (a stub compiles but breaks embedded-wallet transport init):
    import { defineChain } from "viem";
    const baseSepolia = defineChain({
      id: 84532, name: "Base Sepolia",
      nativeCurrency: { name: "Ether", symbol: "ETH", decimals: 18 },
      rpcUrls: { default: { http: [import.meta.env.VITE_BASE_SEPOLIA_RPC_URL || "https://sepolia.base.org"] } },
      blockExplorers: { default: { name: "BaseScan", url: "https://sepolia.basescan.org" } },
    });
    <PrivyProvider appId={import.meta.env.VITE_PRIVY_APP_ID}
      config={{ loginMethods:['google'],
                embeddedWallets:{ ethereum:{ createOnLogin:'users-without-wallets' } },
                defaultChain: baseSepolia as never,
                supportedChains: [baseSepolia] as never }}>
- IMPORTANT — Privy mount must be LAZY + CLIENT-ONLY (`@privy-io/react-auth` crashes
  under SSR): load `PrivyProvider` via `lazy(() => import('./privy-client-entry'))`
  inside `<ClientOnly><Suspense>` in a `privy-root.tsx`. Never import
  `@privy-io/react-auth` at module scope of a route file.
- EVERY tx call passes `{ sponsor: true }` AND `address: embedded.address`:
    import { useSendTransaction, useWallets } from "@privy-io/react-auth";
    const { sendTransaction } = useSendTransaction();
    const embedded = wallets.find(w => w.walletClientType === "privy");
    const receipt = await sendTransaction(
      { to: CONTRACT_ADDRESS, data, chainId: 84532 },
      { address: embedded.address, sponsor: true },
    );
  Without `sponsor: true` Privy silently falls back to user-paid gas.
  Without `address` Privy may route through a non-embedded wallet and prompt.
- Wrap the `sendTransaction` call in a 45s `Promise.race` timeout whose rejection
  message names the two required Privy dashboard settings (below), so the failure
  mode is diagnosable from the UI.
- PRIVY DASHBOARD (required, one-time, in the Privy console for VITE_PRIVY_APP_ID):
    1. Chains -> add Base Sepolia (84532) AND toggle
       "Allow transactions from the client" ON. Without this, `sendTransaction`
       hangs forever with no error.
    2. Gas Sponsorship -> add a Base Sepolia policy (unlimited or capped).
       Without it, embedded wallets need native ETH for gas and hit
       "insufficient funds" before the tx ever lands.
- Hardhat in /contracts (kept outside the Vite bundle). Install
  `@nomicfoundation/hardhat-ethers` AND `@nomicfoundation/hardhat-verify` (>=2.x).
  DO NOT install `@nomicfoundation/hardhat-toolbox` — it drags Hardhat 3 peers.
- hardhat.config.cjs — Base Sepolia + Etherscan v2 single-key:
    require("@nomicfoundation/hardhat-ethers");
    require("@nomicfoundation/hardhat-verify");
    const pk = process.env.METAMASK_PRIVATE_KEY;
    module.exports = {
      solidity: { version: "0.8.24", settings: { optimizer: { enabled: true, runs: 200 } } },
      networks: { baseSepolia: {
        url: process.env.BASE_SEPOLIA_RPC_URL || "https://sepolia.base.org",
        accounts: pk ? [pk.startsWith("0x") ? pk : "0x" + pk] : [],
        chainId: 84532,
      } },
      etherscan: {
        apiKey: process.env.ETHERSCAN_API_KEY,          // single Etherscan v2 key covers BaseScan
        customChains: [{
          network: "baseSepolia", chainId: 84532,
          urls: {
            apiURL: "https://api.etherscan.io/v2/api?chainid=84532",
            browserURL: "https://sepolia.basescan.org",
          },
        }],
      },
      sourcify: { enabled: false },
    };
- Deploy: `npx hardhat run scripts/deploy.cjs --network baseSepolia`.
- Verify (run RIGHT AFTER deploy, no constructor args for these contracts):
  `npx hardhat verify --network baseSepolia <address>`
  On success it prints "Successfully verified contract … on the block explorer"
  and the source becomes readable at
  `https://sepolia.basescan.org/address/<address>#code`.
- Frontend reads: create a viem public client with the Base Sepolia RPC too —
  `createPublicClient({ chain: baseSepolia, transport: http(import.meta.env.VITE_BASE_SEPOLIA_RPC_URL) })`
  (import `baseSepolia` from `viem/chains`).
  Expose the RPC to the client by also setting VITE_BASE_SEPOLIA_RPC_URL to the same value.
- Write the deployed address to `src/data/contract.json` so the UI links to
  `https://sepolia.basescan.org/address/<address>`.

CONTRACT (contracts/GaslessBeatBattles.sol):
```solidity
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.24;
/// @title SocialLogGaslessBeatBattles
/// @notice Host onchain beat battles allowing creators to compete and vote without paying blockchain fees.
/// @notice Built during the Creative AI & Quantum Hackathon organised by StreetKode Fam during Indian Krump Festival 14
contract SocialLogGaslessBeatBattles {
    event Logged(address indexed author, string cid, uint256 at);
    /// @notice Built during the Creative AI & Quantum Hackathon organised by StreetKode Fam during Indian Krump Festival 14
    function log(string calldata cid) external {
        emit Logged(msg.sender, cid, block.timestamp);
    }
}
```

USER FLOW
1. Land on page -> 'Sign in with Google' (Privy) -> embedded wallet auto-provisioned on Base Sepolia.
2. Every music competitions action the user performs is sent as a sponsored Base Sepolia tx (`log(payload)`) and displayed with a BaseScan link. No wallet popups.
3. Footer renders: "Built during the Creative AI & Quantum Hackathon organised by StreetKode Fam during Indian Krump Festival 14"

REQUIRED SECRETS (Lovable -> Project Settings -> Secrets):
- METAMASK_PRIVATE_KEY  Base Sepolia deployer key. Fund it: https://portal.cdp.coinbase.com/products/faucet
                        (alt: https://www.alchemy.com/faucets/base-sepolia)
- BASE_SEPOLIA_RPC_URL  Alchemy Base Sepolia HTTPS endpoint (https://eth-base-sepolia.g.alchemy.com/v2/<key>)
                        OR the public default https://sepolia.base.org. Create a free app: https://dashboard.alchemy.com/
- ETHERSCAN_API_KEY     Single Etherscan v2 key — verifies on BaseScan (chainId 84532) with no extra key.
                        Get: https://etherscan.io/myapikey
- PRIVY_APP_ID          Google sign-in + sponsored tx. Enable Base Sepolia (84532) in your Privy dashboard.
                        Docs: https://docs.privy.io/llms-full.txt
- PINATA_JWT            IPFS uploads (only if app pins media). Docs: https://docs.pinata.cloud/llms-full.txt

CREDIT (must appear in UI footer AND as NatSpec on every deployed contract):
Built during the Creative AI & Quantum Hackathon organised by StreetKode Fam during Indian Krump Festival 14
Appendix · Market

Market sizing.

TAM
$300M
online music contests
SAM
$85M
beat battle platforms
SOM
$7M
free competition hosting

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

See also

Adjacent entries.