Content Rental with Unlock Protocol

You can use Darkblock and Unlock Protocol together to collect payments from users for short-term access to content.

Note: this is for EVM-only chains (Ethereum, Polygon, and Avalanche).

Here are the basic steps:

Create an Unlock Protocol contract to offer subscriptions, this contract is called a “lock”.

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Upgrade the collection using the Darkblock collection upgrader⁠

, which enables you to add a piece of content to be available to buyers of the subscriptions. The buyers are issued NFTs called keys, and anyone with a valid key (not expired) will be able to access the content.

Use the Unlock Protocol widget to sell end-users keys. You can do this in your own site, or direct people to a page on the Unlock Protocol site.

Use the

Darkblock Viewer⁠

to embed the content on your website, or direct people to the

Darkblock Web App⁠

to connect their wallet and view the content.

See the video below for more context. You can

read more about the partnership on the Unlock Protocol blog⁠

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