How it all works

A star lists something — an hour of their time, a signed item, a piece nobody else owns. A fan buys it. The money sits in escrow until the thing actually happens, then it's released. Every order is written to a permanent record under the buyer's name.

The platform takes 9.9% and nothing else. There's no label split, no promoter cut, no agent percentage and no app-store fee on the way out.

Stars set their own prices, their own locations, their own edition sizes and their own shipping rates. The platform handles the money, the records and the marketplace — not the terms.

Every listing is a token. A booking is a claim on someone's calendar, a drop is a claim on an object, an auction is a claim on the only one that exists. That's what makes them transferable later.

1. 1

   You pay into escrow

   The money leaves your wallet but doesn't reach the star. It's held by the marketplace.

2. 2

   The star delivers

   They run the session, or they ship the item and add a tracking number.

3. 3

   You confirm

   Once the session happened or the package arrived, you confirm and the escrow releases to the star.

4. 4

   Or you get refunded

   If they don't show up, or the item never arrives, the money comes back to you.

You can follow all of this on your orders page, which shows where each purchase has got to.

A booking listing shows the block length, the format (lunch, workout, studio session, group Q&A) and the location the star chose. Some are a table at a restaurant they actually eat at, some are their own gym, some are a live stream.

• Buy one or more slots at the listed price
• Pick a time from the star's availability after paying
• Confirm once the session has happened — that's what releases their money
• If they don't turn up, refund yourself

Deals struck at the table are the point, not a side effect. Fans have walked out of lunches with sponsorship and investment conversations started.

A drop has a fixed edition size. When it's gone, it's gone — that's what makes it worth something later. Each unit comes with a paired token holding the photos and provenance.

1. 1

   Choose your destination

   Shipping is priced by the star, per region. You see the exact rate before you pay.

2. 2

   The star ships it

   They fulfill their own orders and add a tracking number. Their delivery estimate is shown on the listing before you buy.

3. 3

   Your name goes on the record

   When the order ships, the buyer's name is written to the permanent record. That's what turns an item into memorabilia.

Shipping is the star's responsibility, not the platform's — like eBay. The estimate you see is the one they set, and their dashboard flags any order that runs past it.

• Bidding opens at the reserve price the star set
• Each new bid must beat the current one by the minimum increment
• Your bid is held in escrow while you're winning
• If someone outbids you, your money is released automatically — you don't have to do anything
• When the timer runs out, the highest bid wins

There is no buyer's premium. Auction houses add 22–27% on top of the hammer price; here you pay exactly what you bid, and the platform's cut comes out of the seller's side like any other sale.

For comparison: a record label keeps 75–90%, a promoter takes 20–33% of a purse, a manager or agent takes 10–20%, and an app store adds another 30% on the way out.

Stars don't earn on resales. Once an item is sold, any later increase in value belongs to whoever owns it.

Payments settle in USDC on Base right now, which is what makes instant escrow and instant release possible.

Card checkout is being wired up — 135 currencies with tax collected at checkout. Until it's live, the card option is visible but disabled rather than pretending to work.

Star Hypermarket runs on Base, an Ethereum network. That choice does real work — it isn't decoration.

• Escrow is held by a contract, not a company bank account. We can't spend money we're holding for you, and we can't quietly release it early.
• Anyone with a wallet can take part. There's no approval queue to buy something.
• What sold, for how much, and who owns it now is publicly verifiable — you don't have to take our word for any of it.
• Transactions cost cents, so a $29 album isn't eaten by fees.
• USDC is a dollar-stable token, so a price doesn't move between listing and settlement.

Every listing is a token. Buying one mints you a claim — on a slot in someone's calendar, on an object in a box, on the only one that exists. That claim is what you actually own, and it's why an item can change hands later and still be provable.

Being straight about what's finished: bookings and drops settle through the marketplace contract today. Auctions and revenue-share payouts currently run in the application while their contracts are being built — the behaviour is the same, but the guarantees aren't onchain yet.

• You connect your own wallet. We never see or store your private key.
• When you buy, the money moves into the marketplace escrow contract — not into a Star Hypermarket account.
• The contract releases to the star when you confirm delivery, or back to you on a refund.
• Nobody at Star Hypermarket can move your tokens or spend your balance.
• Outbid at auction? Your escrow is released automatically. You don't have to claim it.

Keep your recovery phrase somewhere safe and never share it. If you lose it, nobody — including us — can restore access to your wallet.

Card checkout, when it launches, will settle through a payment processor instead, which works differently: the processor handles the money and the chain records the ownership. We'll document that path properly before it goes live.

1. 1

   Type

   Pick booking, drop or auction. Everything after this adapts to that choice.

2. 2

   Terms

   Bookings: block length, price, number of slots. Drops: unit price, edition size, your delivery estimate, shipping rates by region. Auctions: reserve price and how long it runs.

3. 3

   Details

   Title, your headline, what buyers get — and photos for drops and auctions. Up to four images, 5MB each; the first is the cover.

4. 4

   Review

   See the gross if it all sells and what you keep after the platform fee, then launch.

Bookings don't take photos — you're selling time, so your profile picture stands in.

The fulfillment queue on your dashboard lists every order waiting on you, how many days are left against the estimate you promised, and anything that's overdue.

• Add a tracking number and mark the order shipped
• The buyer's name is written to the permanent record at that moment
• Escrow releases to you once the buyer confirms it arrived
• Orders past your own estimate are flagged so they don't get lost

You set the shipping rates and the delivery estimate when you launch, so both are promises you made rather than platform defaults.

• Profile picture, display name, headline and league
• A description of who you are and what you're selling
• A live preview of the card fans actually see

Changing your profile updates every offering you've already published, so you never end up with half your catalogue under an old name.

Revenue share is paid out of the platform's 9.9%, never out of what your recruits earn. Each level is capped annually.

On top of that there are token awards for top sellers and recruiters, a consistency award for launching regularly, and cap tiers at $5M and $20M in sales.

Vested token awards are taxable income in the year they vest. Talk to an accountant — bonus terms are subject to change by management.

That record is what separates a signed item from a souvenir — it's provable, it's dated, and it names who owned it. It follows the item if it changes hands.

If you want to sell something on later, the platform will broker it and take 4.9% of the resale. The star earns nothing from it — whatever the item gained is yours.