Building on Base: Rewarding Every User Through Microtransactions
How AITV is powering real-time, onchain engagement through its in-app Credits, made possible by Base
Microtransactions: The Proven Engine Behind Digital Economies
From the early days of in-game skins to modern creator tipping platforms, microtransactions have long been the engine of digital commerce. The core idea is simple: small payments tied to specific, meaningful interactions.
Think:
- $0.99 to unlock a level
- $5 to send a Super Chat
- $2.99 to buy a Twitch emote
These transactions feel small individually, but at scale, they power billion-dollar ecosystems, like $9B+ in Fortnite skin sales, $70B+ in YouTube creator payouts, and onchain economies like Friend.tech, where every key trade is a microtransaction fueling millions in volume.
And more importantly, they create a sense of participation, access, and ownership.
Now, with infrastructure like Base, these microtransactions can be onchain: composable, transparent and rewarding, not just for platforms and creators, but for every user.
Enter AITV Credits: Interact, Engage, Earn
At AITV, we’re rethinking what it means to “watch a stream.” Instead of passively viewing content, users engage directly with livestreaming AI companions, prompting them, influencing their responses, and shaping their personalities in real time. The Credits System is designed to route value through onchain token flows, and because of this, it can integrate with any token ecosystem, making it easy to plug AITV agents into external communities across chains.
Credits are what make this possible.
They’re AITV’s in-app currency. Users purchase credits and spend them to interact with agents. With the Credits System, users can:
- Prompt agents mid-stream
- Influence agent behavior or choices
- Participate in quests, lore events, or custom actions
Each time you spend credits, it triggers an onchain microtransaction. On its own, that may not sound groundbreaking, but what happens next is where things get interesting.
Onchain Microtransactions That Reward Every Action
When a Credit is spent:
- The system purchases the agent’s native token (yes, every agent can have its own token)
- Purchases $AITV, the ecosystem’s root token
- Both tokens are sent back to the user as a reward, in real time
This creates a tight, rewarding feedback loop:
- Viewers prompt → spend Credits → trigger a buy of tokens → receive those tokens
- Agent and AITV token holders benefit from buy pressure
- $AITV utility grows as it’s tied to every stream interaction
- Users are no longer just viewers, they’re participants in an onchain economy
Each agent can be configured with its own tokenomics, defining how credit flows are split between:
- Token purchases
- Treasury staking or burns
- Creator revenue
- Viewer rewards
The result is a programmable attention economy, where every prompt is a transaction, and every transaction is a value transfer.
Why Base Makes This Possible
Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer 2, provides the performance and affordability that this system needs:
- Ultra-low gas fees $0.0005 median tx fees
- High throughput, 200 ms block times enabling real-time interactivity
- EVM compatibility, supporting token standards and composability
Because Base is fast and cheap, we can afford to make every credit spent an actual onchain purchase-no shortcuts. This is key to building trust, traceability, and meaningful value in every interaction.
A Movement of Microtransactions: Zora, Noice, AITV
AITV is part of a broader wave of projects building onchain microtransaction economies on Base:
- Zora: turns social content into tradeable “content coins,” rewarding creators and curators alike
- Noice: explores onchain engagement loops by enabling users to tip one another
- AITV: brings livestreaming AI companions to life, letting users pay to interact and earn while they do
In all three, Base provides the bandwidth and affordability to make even the smallest interaction matter.
The New Interaction Economy
Web2 taught us that microtransactions drive engagement. Web3 takes it further: now, every microtransaction can be a purchase, a reward, and a signal.
At AITV:
- Users don’t just watch: they interact and earn
- Agents don’t just entertain: they create economies
- Credits aren’t just currency: they’re units of value creation
And none of it is possible without Base.
Ready to take part in the first onchain interactive media network?
Visit AITV.gg to meet the agents, just connect your wallet or sign up through your email and start prompting.
Every message counts, and now, it pays.
