Hylaq · Grid

Every 10m² of Earth.
Claimable real estate.

5.1 quadrillion squares. $1 to claim. Stand on it, stake, and own it. Earn when drones, AR content, ads, or navigation queries route through your square. The biggest land rush in human history — distributed on day one.

Live demo

Pan the world. Tap any 10m² cell.

Green outlines are claimed squares. Jump to any landmark to see real claims. Clicks on unclaimed cells open a detail page where you can stake $1 and own it.

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Green outlines are claimed squares. Click any 10m² cell to view its detail page. Zoom in past level 15 to see individual claims. Satellite tiles © Esri.

The paradigm break

Property rights have been government-issued fictions for 5,000 years.

Every title, deed, and boundary has required a state to witness, record, and defend. The fiction stops at the edges of nation-states. Oceans, space, digital real estate, and arbitrary sub-meter geometries — none of it is natively property-rights-addressable.

Hylaq Grid makes property rights a protocol primitive. Every 10m × 10m square of Earth has a canonical cryptographic id derived from its GPS coordinates. Claim requires proof-of- presence + stake. No government, no title company, no plat survey. The grid doesn't care about borders — it was drawn by the planet itself.

How it works

Claim. Stake. Earn.

Proof-of-presence

Stand where you want to claim. Your phone's GPS + Hylaq Veritas attestation prove you were there. Square id derived from your coords so you can't lie about where you are.

Stake

Lock $1 minimum to claim. Premium squares (Times Square, airport check-in zones, sports venues) escalate via open auction. Stake returns when you release.

Earn

Traversals, AR impressions, ad overlays, nav queries, event rights — every routing through your square pays you. Revenue accrues to the square's lifetime counter.

Trade

Sell your claim. Transfer to another @handle. Gift to your kid. Claims carry full ownership history — some squares become historical and trade at a premium.

The product

Every square gets a permanent, shareable page.

Someone stands on a square and claims it. It's now a page at hylaq.com/grid/square/<id> showing the current claimant, stake, lifetime revenue, full ownership history, and recent traffic.

10m² square
Times Square · 1 Times Square
40.756086°, -73.986252°
Claimed by
@colt
Stake
$500.00
Lifetime rev
$8,247.31
Claimed
Apr 15, 2026
Events/day
1,402
Why now

Five markets route through coordinates. None of them pay the coordinate.

$180B/yr

Drone delivery + eVTOL

Amazon Prime Air, Zipline, Matternet, Joby. Every flight crosses thousands of private ground zones. Hylaq Grid is the universal transit-rights rail.

$30B/yr

Location-based ads

Every geofenced ad impression served in a claimed square pays the claimant. Replaces 2014-era programmatic location-ad schemes.

$80B/yr

AR overlays

Apple Vision Pro, Snap Lenses, Niantic. Every AR content render in a claimed cube owes the underlying square a micropayment.

$20B/yr

Navigation queries

Google Maps, Waze, Apple Maps hit coordinates billions of times a day. Hylaq Grid turns each hit into a micro-revenue event for the claimant.

$40B/yr

Event rights

Pop-up markets, concerts, tours, political rallies. Event organizers license claimed squares for the duration — transparent, resellable rights.

$∞

Pure speculation

Your childhood block. The spot where you got engaged. Your kid's school. Some squares become historically priceless. Secondary market emerges day one.

Why only Hylaq

The land rush needs four primitives. Nobody else has all of them.

@handle identity

Every claim belongs to an @handle. Deeds, titles, and rival land registries all require legal identity gates. Hylaq already ships millions.

Veritas proof-of-presence

Without humanity + physical-presence proof, grid squares get bot-claimed by drone farms in minutes. Hylaq is the only stack with the humanity anchor.

Loadit non-custodial stake

Traditional property deposits need banks + escrow. Hylaq Grid stakes sit in the claimant's non-custodial Loadit wallet — settlement is a FROST signature.

Resolver routing rail

Every navigation query, every AR content call, every ad impression flows through Hylaq Resolver. Grid squares plug in as first-class @handles.

Shipped — April 2026

Not a whitepaper. Running code.

Prisma schema
3 models + 2 enums. Integer (latIndex, lonIndex) encoding gives every square a canonical id. Claims append-only.
Coord math lib
Pure functions: GPS → grid id, grid id → bounding box, haversine distance, radius expansion. Browser-safe.
Claim engine
Atomic claim / release / transfer with proof-of-presence gating. 15m tolerance over a 10m square.
8 API routes
claim / square detail / resolve / wallet / release / transfer / usage ingest / earnings aggregate.
Usage accounting
Single + batch event recording. Revenue credits lifetime counters atomically. API-key gated for integrators.
4 consumer pages
/grid landing + /grid/square/[id] + /grid/wallet/[handle] + /grid/claim with browser Geolocation.

Earth is now a 3D grid of tradable atomic units.

The first week after launch looks like the Oklahoma land rush — globally, at 10m resolution, settled by a FROST signature instead of a treaty.