Name: USDC Paywall
Brand: DEPLOYR
Price: 20 USD
Availability: InStock

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$20

Ready now

The working app on your own wallet and git, one-click deploy, and the step-by-step guide that makes you the verifiable developer.

You choose: App name
You choose: Logo and accent color

Customfrom $300

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete USDC Paywall app: creators lock a guide behind a few cents of USDC on their own Arc contract, readers unlock with no account, and unlocks settle in batches, with a paywall and helper agent built in.

Base price · $20

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboardingHome

Shown once: lock what you know, readers pay a few cents, straight to your jar.

Jar and next actionHome

Earnings, unlocks, live pieces, settling amount and one next step.

Lock and price a piecePieces

Set a price and a free preview, then publish an unlock link.

Edit and unpublishPieces

Change price or preview, or take a piece down.

Unlimited piecesPieces

More than the free number of live pieces. Gated behind Creator.

Co-author splitsPieces

Send a co-author a share of each unlock. Gated behind Creator.

Price test helperPieces

Test one price at a time and compare earnings. Gated behind Creator.

Reader pathsReaders

A paying reader, a reader with no USDC and a scraper bot, each handled.

Card checkout for readersReaders

Readers without USDC pay by card, settled as USDC. Gated behind Creator.

Batch settlement and receiptEarnings

Settling and settled amounts, settle now, and what is onchain.

Monday note and share cardEarnings

What sold and what to try, plus a public counter share card.

Plans and USDC checkoutMe

Street stall, Creator and Studio tiers through the shared USDC checkout.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue

MRR, free plan fee, incoming USDC, payment methods, tiers, free pieces and gates.

Platform rulesRules

Free plan fee, batch size, bot limit, default price and the footer link.

Agent log with failuresAgent

Pricing and settlement failures and how they were fixed, plus costs.

Roadmap build requestsRoadmap

v2 and v3 scopes with add-on prices.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Tutor circle loop and referralsGrowth

Host a niche session, footer link loop, public counters and referral codes.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Creators subscribe monthly in USDC; the free plan pays a small fee on unlocks.

Street stallFree3 locked pieces, USDC unlocks, batch settlement, public counter

Creator$19 a monthUnlimited pieces, co-author splits, price tests, card checkout for readers

Studio$29 a monthEverything in Creator, your own domain, 3 team seats, CSV export

A 3% fee on unlocks for free plan creators, set by the owner.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Run your own paywall footer on every unlock page
Public unlock counters creators post
Owning one niche, starting with language tutors
Creator referral codes with a free month for both

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The full paywall

Paywall contract on Arc
Lock pieces with price and preview
Signed USDC unlocks with batches
Retries and bot guard
Dashboard, Monday note and plans

Included

Bundles and subscriptions

Bundles
Monthly reader passes
Embeddable unlock button
Telegram and Discord unlock bots

Add-on from $350

Niche marketplace

Niche shelf
Reader affiliate shares
Many author splits
Preview conversion analytics

Add-on from $900

For investors and grant reviewers

The pitch, ready

A paywall for anyone who knows something useful: a few cents of USDC, no platform in the middle.

Problem: Small creators cannot charge a fair tiny price because card fees and platforms eat it.

Solution: Each creator gets their own contract; readers sign a USDC unlock and batches settle for a fraction of a cent.

Why now: Signed USDC authorizations and cheap new chains make five cent payments practical.

Market: Tutors, coaches and niche writers, from a free stall to $29 a month plans.

The ask: Become the default paywall for online language tutors first.

Funding is never guaranteed. Check each program's rules.

For hackathons and demo days

Your 2 minute demo

Home: Linh's jar and next step.
Pieces: lock the pho menu at 5 cents with a short preview.
Readers: Tom pays and the page opens.
Readers: Ana has no USDC; card checkout is gated behind Creator. A scraper is slowed.
Earnings: settle the batch and read the Monday note.
Owner Agent: the overpricing and settlement retry fixes.
Owner Revenue: change the Creator price and free pieces.
Owner Growth: host a tutor circle.

Many hackathons require code written at the event. See the Regatta Boardfor each race's rule.

Make it entirely yours

Custom domains, niche shelves, new chains and branded unlock pages, scoped on a call from $1,000.

Custom from $300

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The need

Tutors, writers and small creators have one or two things people keep asking for, but a monthly subscription is too much to ask for one page, and card checkouts make tiny payments impossible because fixed card fees eat them.

What exists and what is new

Paid content tools already exist: Substack, Patreon and Gumroad sell subscriptions and downloads by card, and onchain options such as Paragraph and Zora mints, plus HTTP 402 payment flows like Coinbase's x402, already let people pay small amounts in USDC. What is different here is the packaging, not the primitive: a creator owned paywall contract on Arc (where USDC is the fee token), per piece sub-cent pricing, built-in co-author splits, batched settlement and a card top-up fallback for readers with no USDC. Modest novelty; the value is a simple, owned setup.

The data it runs on

Per piece price and split settings, signed payment authorizations from readers, batch settlement transactions, unlock counts, and the creator's content stored in their own storage. No reader emails or accounts are required.

1.The mission

Let anyone who knows something useful get paid a fair, tiny amount for it, directly, with no platform in the middle.

2.Why people can't resist it

Cheaper than a thought At five cents there is no decision to make, so readers who would never subscribe will unlock.

Yours, not a platform's The contract deploys from the creator's wallet and pays to their address; nobody can freeze it.

Public counter A live unlock count is proof that sells the next creator on running their own paywall.

3.How it works for real

Wallets: Privy embedded wallets so readers can pay with a passkey, with an optional card onramp to buy a few dollars of USDC.

Paywall contract on Arc: A small contract on Arc, Circle's stablecoin-focused chain where fees are paid in USDC, stores prices, payout address and split percentages per piece.

Signed payments, batched: Readers sign an EIP-3009 style USDC transfer authorization (the same pattern x402 uses). Access is granted on a valid signature, and a relayer settles many at once to keep gas below the price.

Content gate: Files stay in the creator's storage (for example Cloudflare R2 or IPFS with encryption); a Next.js route serves them only against a valid paid signature and issues short lived links.

Helper agent: A small model (for example a Claude Haiku class model via OpenRouter) summarises weekly asks and suggests price tests; settlement and rate limits are plain code.

Indexer and notes: Convex indexes settlements for the dashboard, the public counter and the Monday note.

4.Cost per use and pricing

Arc is young and its fee levels may change, so check current network status and fees before launch. Batching keeps cost per unlock to a fraction of the batch fee: if one settlement costs about one cent and carries 200 unlocks, gas is well under a hundredth of a cent each. The helper agent costs well under a cent a week per creator. Example: 10,000 unlocks a month is roughly $1 to $5 in settlement gas plus about $25 for hosting and storage. Card onramp fees are charged by the provider to the reader.

Own content Free

The owner keeps every unlock on their own pieces.

Creator plan $9 per month

Other creators get a branded paywall on the owner's deployment, with splits and the Monday note.

Done for you $150 one time

The owner sets up pieces, prices and the page for a creator who does not want to.

5.Growth loop

Each unlock page shows 'Run your own paywall'. Creators who post their weekly counts pull in peers in the same niche. Start with one niche, such as language tutors, and become the default there before widening.

6.Risks and guardrails

Young chain: Arc may change or upgrade. Keep content off the contract and keep a plain list of what is behind each lock so the paywall can be redeployed elsewhere.

Tax and rules: USDC income is usually taxable like other income and rules differ by country. Nothing here is tax or legal advice; keep the onchain ledger and ask a local accountant.

Content leaks: A paying reader can copy a page. Short lived links and watermarks reduce it; it cannot be fully stopped, so price for that.

Unsettled signatures: Access is granted before settlement, so a reader could move funds first. Settle often and cap unsettled value per wallet.

Onramp friction: Readers with no USDC face a card top-up with its own fee. Always offer the free preview instead of a hard wall.

7.Build order

Deploy the paywall contract on Arc from the owner's wallet.
Upload one piece, set a price and preview, publish an unlock link.
Reader pays with a signed USDC authorization; page opens.
Batch settlement relayer with retries and a 'settling' status.
Co-author splits in the contract.
Dashboard with unlock counter and the Monday note.

8.Where this is going

Now
A Hanoi tutor gets paid five cents at a time for the guide everyone asks for.
Next
Hundreds of small creators run branded paywalls on one owner's deployment.
Later
Agents and apps pay per page for quality human knowledge, with the payout going to the person who wrote it.
Far
Paying a few cents for something useful becomes as normal as liking it, so experts everywhere can earn from what they know.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own USDC Paywall

Every paywall you rent takes a cut, holds your money for weeks and owns the list of who paid you. USDC Paywall runs on your own Arc contract, so each fraction-of-a-cent unlock lands in your wallet in seconds and the payment record is yours. You are also the deployer of record on Arc, which a hosted Substack or Patreon page can never give you.

What’s stopping you?

“I can't code.”

You do not have to. The guide walks you through connecting your wallet, pressing deploy and pasting your content links. If a step breaks, the copy-paste fixes are in the guide, and the get-it-shipped promise means DEPLOYR helps you finish.

“Will anyone pay for my stuff, even a fraction of a cent?”

Maybe not at first. Sub-cent pricing removes the biggest objection (signing up and committing to a monthly fee), but you still need something worth unlocking. Start with one piece you know people already ask you for, and measure unlocks before you build more.

“Is it really mine?”

Yes. The contract deploys from your wallet, the code lives in your git, and payments settle to an address you control. DEPLOYR cannot freeze your paywall or redirect your USDC.

“What if Arc changes or the app breaks?”

Arc is a young chain, so expect upgrades. Your code and content are yours, so you can redeploy or move. Keep your content stored off the contract, and keep a plain list of what is behind each lock.

“Do I need to worry about tax or rules on USDC income?”

Probably, depending on where you live. Payments in USDC are usually treated as income like any other. Keep the onchain record (it is a clean ledger) and ask a local accountant once you earn more than pocket money. Nothing here is legal or tax advice.

The million-dollar ladder

You earn two ways. First, unlocks on your own content pay you directly. Second, and bigger, you run the paywall for other creators: they pay you a flat monthly fee for a branded paywall on your Arc deployment, and you can add a small percentage on unlocks. The $1M path is the second one.

$90 per month

$1,900 per month

$23,200 per month

$84,100 per month (about $1M a year)

First 10 creators

10 writers, coaches or educators

$9 per month

Proof

100 creators

$19 per month

Niche leader

800 creators

$29 per month

Business

2,900 creators

$29 per month

Pick one niche (for example language tutors or trading journal writers) and become the default paywall for it before widening.
Show each creator a public unlocks counter, because proof of earnings sells the next creator.
Add a done-for-you setup tier at $150 one time to fund growth.
This ladder is a target to aim at, not a promise. Most creator tools stall below 100 customers, so judge yourself on the Proof stage first.

Illustrative stages, not a forecast. Results depend on you and the market; nothing here is guaranteed.