— Project N°16 / Blockchain & Solana

Time.fun

Tradable creator-minutes marketplace with escrowed redemption and verified creator identity.

N°16 · BLOCKCHAIN & SOLANA
Client
Time.fun
Year
2025
Duration
11 weeks (MVP → Solana launch)
Team
6 engineers
— STAR breakdown
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Situation

A creator's time has obvious market value but no liquid, price-discovered market — and fans who paid for a call or a DM had no recourse if the creator never delivered. Impersonation on bonding-curve platforms had also made buyers rightly suspicious of any token tied to a named person.

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Task

Migrate the product to Solana and prototype a market where minutes are tradable assets, redemption is enforceable, and every creator is provably who they claim to be.

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Action

  • 01Ported the token mechanics to Solana with an Anchor program pricing each creator's minutes on a bonding curve, so early access to a rising creator costs less than late access.
  • 02Built the escrow layer that holds tokens in a program account at booking time instead of paying the creator up front.
  • 03Added timeout-based reclaim so an unanswered booking returns the minutes to the fan, who can resell them rather than lose the value.
  • 04Implemented creator verification bound to X identity to close the impersonation gap, with an onboarding flow non-crypto creators could complete unassisted.
  • 05Split trading fees programmatically across team, creator, referrer and incentive pool, leaving creators 95–96% of redemption value on a completed session.
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Result

  • Solana launch shipped with escrowed redemption live from day one.
  • Unredeemed minutes became resellable, removing the pay-and-hope failure mode.
  • Verified-creator requirement eliminated impersonation launches on the platform.
  • Amplified across the Solana ecosystem by core network figures at launch.
— Stack
AnchorSolanaReactX OAuth