# USDC bidding on Base that decides the plot — Freysa Forever The audience steers the story with real USDC bids on Base — connect a wallet, stack an amount, and the winning branch is the one that gets filmed. Type: project Published: 2026-08-31 [Original page]() [Browse this group]() Parent project: Freysa Forever Recorded status: launched Updated: 2026-09-16T16:05:08.439Z Technologies: Node.js, React, Base, USDC, Foundry, SQLite, Cloudflare R2 ## Details **What is it?** The mechanism that hands the plot to the audience and charges them for it. **What it does** - Connect a wallet and bid in real USDC on Base, testnet first, then live - Bidding is stack-then-confirm: press −$1, +$1, or +$5 to build an amount, then one Confirm places it as a single bid - The pot's progress toward the reserve that buys the next five minutes is shown as one bar - Filming starts the moment the vote closes - When the film budget runs out, bidding and filming pause rather than overspending **How it works** Pricing is derived rather than picked: the audience pays a set amount per second of footage so that every block covers its own filming cost plus a margin, which sets both the pot that wakes the movie and the price of a takeover. Moving to a faster, half-price video model dropped the per-second price and every threshold with it, automatically. The Confirm button names the exact amount it will place, can't be pressed twice while a bid is in flight, and forgets a half-built amount when a new choice opens. **Built with** Node.js and React, USDC on Base with a Foundry-tested contract, SQLite, Cloudflare R2. ## Links [Site or demo]() ## Related build notes [a movie that writes and films itself, and an audience that pays to steer it]() Status and dates describe the published record, not a recent test of an external service. Missing details are not inferred. Public links do not imply an open-source licence or permission to reuse material. [Directory]()