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Who it is for

Ines Duarte draws shopfronts in Porto, and her commissions arrive as DMs that ghost after the first sketch. On Commission Market a buyer funds the brief in escrow before she lifts a pencil, each sketch and revision round releases a slice, and the finished piece mints to the buyer with the brief and every round attached. When it resells, the royalty splits between Ines and the colorist who helped her.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$100

Yours in 3 to 5 days

The buyer and artist app: artist profiles with open slots, a brief builder with USDC escrow, sketch and revision rounds with milestone release, delivery that mints to the buyer with the brief and rounds as provenance, collaborator royalty splits, a provenance viewer and receipts.

You choose: accent color and brand
You choose: milestone defaults
You choose: royalty split defaults
You choose: chain choice (Base or Solana)

Customfrom $1,500

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

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

What is new

Commission escrow and NFT minting both exist, but mostly as separate tools or hackathon prototypes (Art Block, ArtPay, an EIP commission draft). What is new here is the packaged marketplace where the funded brief, the sketch and revision rounds and the approvals become the token's provenance, with milestone release and a resale royalty split across named collaborators.

Closest things out there

Art Block and ArtPay (hackathon commission mints), the NFT Commission Standard discussion on Ethereum Magicians, fiat commission sites like Artists&Clients with milestone payments, and Metaplex or 0xSplits for royalty splits.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

Artists get paid for the work, not for the hype, and buyers own the story of how their piece was made.

The Regatta Board

Races Commission Market can enter

3 live races fit this app. Each one says why, with its prize and countdown. The rule on existing code is on the race page.

Grant roundBaseBase Builder GrantsFundingNot announcedRolling, apply any timeWhy it fits. Creator payments with escrow on Base fit their builder focus; check current terms.56 other apps can enter tooSee the race Grant roundSolanaSolana Foundation GrantsFundingNot announcedRolling, apply any timeWhy it fits. Creator economy tooling on Solana is a listed interest at times; check current terms.26 other apps can enter tooSee the race HackathonSolanaColosseum EternalPrizeNot announcedRolling, apply any timeWhy it fits. A rolling Solana hackathon; new work only, check current terms on existing code.13 other apps can enter tooSee the race

See every race on the board

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

A commission first NFT marketplace you own: buyers fund briefs in escrow, artists deliver in rounds, every finished piece mints with its own provenance, and you earn a fee on completed briefs plus artist plans.

Base price · $100

The user app, complete

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

Illustrated home with the next action and first-run onboardingHome

Three step welcome, the commission waiting on you, and escrow totals at a glance.

Commission room with three playable outcomesCommissions

Smooth delivery, a revision round, or a deadline missed and refunded, each with escrow moving per round.

Escrow meter per briefCommissions

Shows funded, released and remaining USDC as rounds are approved.

Delivery mint to the buyerCommissions

Final approval mints the piece to the buyer with brief and round hashes.

Brief builder with live previewBrief

Subject, budget, deadline, rounds, license and collaborator split, with the escrow schedule updating as you type.

Collaborator royalty splitBrief

Name a colorist or letterer and set their resale share; locked behind Studio by default.

Provenance pages and receiptsProvenance

Every brief, round and release with deterministic receipts marked onchain or offchain.

Artist plans and checkoutMe

Sketchbook, Studio and Atelier tiers with a simulated USDC checkout.

Profile, permissions, vision and share cardMe

Open slots, invite link, the escrow's hard limits and a shareable provenance card.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

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

Revenue dashboard with fee and plan incomeRevenue

MRR, completed brief fees, monthly chart and incoming payments.

Live paywall editorRevenue

Rename tiers, change prices and choose what is gated; the user app updates instantly.

Accepted payment methodsRevenue

Toggle USDC on Base, other chains and card on-ramp.

Market rulesRules

Completion fee, sketch release share, buyer silence timeout, max revision rounds and dispute reviewers.

Escrow agent log with failures and fixesAgent

Timeouts, pin failures and dispute routing, plus monthly running costs.

Roadmap with build requestsRoadmap

v2 and v3 add-ons with prices and a request sheet.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

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

Provenance share loop and sourcesGrowth

Run an artist community invite and see where buyers come from.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

A fee on every completed brief, taken from the escrow at final release, plus monthly plans for artists who want more slots, revision rounds and collaborator splits. Buyers never pay a subscription.

SketchbookFreeProfile, two open slots, escrowed briefs with sketch and final rounds, delivery mint with provenance.

Studio$12 per monthUnlimited slots, three revision rounds, collaborator royalty splits, custom brief form, lower fee.

Atelier$39 per monthTeam seats, shared queue, milestone templates, dispute priority and client exports.

Completion fee of 3 to 8 percent of the brief budget (default 5 percent, 3 percent on Studio), shown to both sides before funding.

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

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Every delivered piece has a public provenance page crediting the artist with a link to their open slots
Artists bring existing DM clients because escrow protects both sides
Collaborators named on a piece invite their own clients
Seasonal commission calls posted to artist communities with permission, never as spam

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The commission market

Escrowed briefs with rounds
Delivery mint with provenance
Collaborator royalty splits
Artist plans and paywall editor
Rules, agent log, payouts

Included

Patrons and open calls

Recurring patrons who fund a brief every season
Open calls where several artists pitch a sketch
Physical print fulfilment linked to the token

Add-on from $600

Studios and white label

Studio storefronts on their own domain
Shared queues with assistants
Portable provenance export for galleries

Add-on from $1,200

The pitch, ready for investors and grant reviewers

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

Your 2 minute demo script

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

Make it entirely yours

Your brand, fee defaults, chain choice, license templates, print fulfilment or a white label studio domain are scoped and priced together.

Custom from $1,500

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The recipe (how it is built, the data, costs, risks, build order, the pitch and the demo script) is unlocked when your app is paid in full.

The need

Independent artists take commissions over DMs and payment apps. Buyers ghost after free sketches, artists ghost after deposits, and when a piece is resold online nobody can see who made it, what was asked for or who helped. NFT marketplaces reward speculation on finished drops, not the slow work of making something for someone.

What exists and what is new

The parts exist. Fiat commission sites run milestone payments, NFT escrow programs exist on Metaplex, royalty splits exist through 0xSplits and Metaplex creators, and hackathon projects such as Art Block and ArtPay minted commissions. What we did not find live is a commission first marketplace where the funded brief, every sketch and revision round and each approval become the token's provenance, with milestone release and resale royalties split to named collaborators. Research verdict: rare as a product, medium novelty.

The data it runs on

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

1.The mission

Make commissioning art feel safe for both sides, and make the story of how a piece was made part of the piece forever.

2.Why people can't resist it

Funded, not promised An artist sees the budget sitting in escrow before they start. That one fact ends most of the ghosting.

The provenance page Every piece has a page: the brief in the buyer's words, each sketch, the notes and approvals. People share these more than the finished art.

Credit that pays The colorist, letterer or assistant is a named collaborator with a royalty share on every resale.

3.How it works for real

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

4.Pricing

Cost per use: unlocked when your app is paid in full.

Sketchbook Free

Artist profile, two open slots, escrowed briefs, sketch and final rounds, delivery mint with provenance. Owner takes a 5 percent fee on completed briefs.

Studio $12 per month

Unlimited slots, three revision rounds, collaborator royalty splits, a custom brief form and a lower 3 percent fee.

Atelier $39 per month

For small studios: team seats, shared queue, milestone templates, dispute priority and exportable client records.

5.Growth loop

Every delivered piece has a public provenance page that credits the artist and links to their open slots, so each sale advertises the next commission. Artists bring their existing clients because the escrow protects them.

6.Risks and guardrails

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

7.Build order

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

8.Where this is going

Now
One artist, one buyer, a funded brief and a piece that carries its own story.
Next
Studios with collaborators, recurring patrons who commission every season, and briefs in any language.
Later
Provenance pages become a public record of who made what for whom, a portfolio no platform can delete.
The world it builds
Making things for people becomes a safer living, and owning art means owning the story of its making.

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 Commission Market

Every illustrator you know takes commissions over DMs and hopes the buyer pays. Owning Commission Market means you run the place where that stops: the budget sits in escrow before anyone draws, rounds release money as they are approved, and each finished piece mints with the story of how it was made. Start with one artist community, earn a fee on every completed brief, and let each provenance page sell the next commission.

What’s stopping you?

“I am not an artist, so why would artists trust my market?”

Artists trust escrow, not you. The budget is visible in a contract before they start, and the rules are on every brief. Many owners start by running it for one artist friend and their clients, then grow from that group.

“What if buyer and artist fight over a revision?”

Each round releases only its own slice, so a fight is over a small amount, not the whole budget. The dispute review shows both sides the written brief and every file. You can name trusted artists as reviewers instead of deciding yourself.

“Will resale royalties actually get paid?”

Not everywhere. Some marketplaces skip creator royalties, and the app says so plainly. The main income is the commission itself; royalties are a bonus that pays where honoured.

“Is this legal and what about tax?”

Commissions are services, so artists may owe tax on income like any freelance work, and the brief states which license the buyer gets. Take local advice before you scale. We never promise resale value or profit.

A revenue ladder, step by step

A completion fee on each brief plus monthly artist plans, and later a white label tier for studios that want their own storefront.

$1,200

$9,200

$14,000

$95,000

One community

40 artists, 120 briefs a month

5% of $180 average + 10 Studio plans

Known market

300 artists, 900 briefs a month

5% fee + 90 Studio plans

Studios

60 Atelier studios added

$39 a month + fees

Category leader

3,000 artists, 9,000 briefs a month

Mixed

Make provenance pages beautiful enough that buyers share them
Partner with illustration schools and artist collectives for their first cohort
Raise average brief size with murals, book covers and studio work

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

Pick your destination

Grow it into a business

Artists already sell commissions; you remove the fear on both sides and take a small fee only when a brief completes, so your first income arrives with your first delivered piece.ARRIVE: Ten completed briefs through your market and the first $100 in completion fees.5 moves · first one within the hour →

Raise for it

A market with escrow volume, completed briefs and repeat buyers is a measurable creator economy story that grant programmes on Base and Solana understand.ARRIVE: One grant or accelerator application submitted with real brief data.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Become a real builder on a chain

Running an escrow contract and minting delivered pieces leaves a real, verifiable footprint on Base or Solana under your own wallet. Airdrops are never guaranteed. You are positioning, not buying a payout.ARRIVE: Escrow and mint contracts deployed and verified under your wallet, with real briefs moving through them.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Win with it at hackathons

Creator economy and payments tracks reward working escrow with real users. Check each event's rule on existing code; most want new work built during the event.ARRIVE: A hackathon submission that adds one new feature on top of Commission Market, within the event's rules.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Run your own work on it

If you take commissions yourself, the market replaces deposit chasing, sketch approval threads and credit spreadsheets with one brief and an escrow.ARRIVE: Your own next three commissions run through the app with no payment chasing.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Get your people moving

Showing a class or art group a commission where the whole making process becomes part of the piece is a memorable lesson in credit and fair pay.ARRIVE: Your class or group runs one paired commission each and publishes the provenance pages.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Partner with founders and projects

Illustration schools, tattoo studios and print shops all broker commissions informally; a partnership gives them escrow and gives you a cohort of artists at once.ARRIVE: One partner sends its artists or clients through your market.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Prove your skills with it

A live market with escrow contracts, real briefs and your decisions about disputes and timeouts is stronger proof of product skill than any tutorial.ARRIVE: A case study page sent to five people who hire product or web3 builders.4 moves · first one within the hour →

Sell it as a service

Many artists will never run a market. They will pay someone to set up their commission page, slots and contracts and handle the first disputes.ARRIVE: Two artists or studios paying you for a done-for-you commission setup.4 moves · first one within the hour →

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NOT QUITE COMMISSION MARKET?

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Send a short brief: the idea, the chain, your budget and deadline. A real person replies usually within a day with questions or a fixed quote. The custom tier for Commission Market starts at $1,500, and you pay nothing until you approve the quote.

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