FinAura
FinAura is a platform that enables creators to turn their social capital into liquid digital assets
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Project Information
At a Glance
FinAura is a platform that enables creators to turn their social capital into liquid digital assets
Description
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lte__Gw8gjc4_aoZ0lIjKRI181pGh0N3/view
FinAura is a tokenized investment platform that lets fans and investors buy real financial stakes in social media influencers — settling everything on the XRP Ledger with no middlemen.
The Problem
Creators monetize through sponsorships and ad revenue — opaque, inconsistent, and locked behind agencies. Meanwhile, their most loyal communities have no way to invest in their growth, share in their upside, or hold any real stake in their success. The creator economy is a multi-hundred-billion-dollar industry with zero accessible financial infrastructure for the people who actually fuel it.
What Finaura Does
Each influencer launches a fixed-supply token offering — their own personal currency on the XRPL. Fans buy allocations during the live offering window using XRP through their Xaman wallet. When the offering closes (by time or sell-out), Finaura automatically spins up an AMM (Automated Market Maker) pool on the XRPL DEX — seeding it with the tokens and collected XRP so a live secondary market exists from day one. Holders can then trade their tokens at market price, 24/7, with on-chain liquidity. Platform holds back a 10% AMM reserve to ensure the pool always has depth.
What Makes It Special
Real on-chain settlement — Tokens are XRPL native assets, delivered wallet-to-wallet. No wrapped tokens, no custodians, no bridges. Automated liquidity bootstrapping — The AMM is created programmatically the moment an offering ends. No manual steps, no waiting for a centralized exchange to list. Xaman-native UX — Every transaction (purchase, trustline, exchange) is signed in Xaman via QR or deeplink. Users hold their own keys. RLUSD-priced offerings — Prices are denominated in USD value, settled in XRP at market rate, protecting both sides from arbitrary token pricing. Transparent allocation — Every purchase, delivery, and AMM seeding is a public XRPL transaction. Nothing is off-chain. Category + country filtering, favorites, live sell progress — A full investor-grade market UI, not a meme launchpad.
Technical Details
Stack: Next.js 16 (App Router), Supabase (Postgres + RLS), XRPL Testnet via QuikNode, Xaman OAuth2 PKCE, Tailwind CSS.
Architecture: Stateless API routes for all blockchain interactions. Supabase is source of truth. AMM creation runs inside a fire-and-forget expire-offerings route triggered on market page load — detecting ended offerings and seeding an on-chain AMM pool automatically.
The most serious challenge was a silent infrastructure failure that took significant debugging to diagnose. xrpl.js — the standard XRPL library — is built around persistent WebSocket connections via its Client class. Every route that needed to interact with the ledger opened one. QuikNode's free tier silently caps concurrent WebSocket connections at 2. The AMM creation route was failing without any exception, any timeout, any logged output.
Diagnosing this required ruling out transaction logic, fee errors, wallet funding, and trustline state before isolating the connection layer as the cause.
Team
2manugon13 User
Bob Dox
Hackathon
HACK THE BLOCK 2026 Paris Blockchain Week XRPL Hackathon
Duration
Apr 11, 6:30 AM - Apr 12, 6:00 PM UTC