Every cubic meter of sky
above your head.
Stand under the airspace you want. Pick an altitude band. Stake $1. Own the column of sky from ground to 400m. Earn when drones, AR content, ad balloons, or eVTOL corridors route through your sky.
The ground is real. The sky above it is now real estate too.
Pan any city. Green outlines are claimed ground squares below. Every one has five claimable 10m airspace slabs stacked above it — from canopy drones to eVTOL taxis.
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.
Airspace rights are a 20th-century fiction every government regulates but no human owns.
In most jurisdictions, property rights theoretically extend upward ad coelum — to the heavens. In practice, the FAA controls everything above 500 feet, municipalities carve the middle, and drone operators freely cross private land. Homeowners have no protocol-native way to charge for transit, consent, or use.
Hylaq Sky makes it real. Every 10m-tall slab of airspace above a Hylaq Grid square is a cryptographically addressable asset. The claimant is an @handle. Drone operators pay transit fees cell-by-cell, auto-settled per event. AR platforms pay to render content in your volume. Balloon advertisers pay for residency. The airspace becomes the toll road of the drone economy.
Five bands. Each 10m tall. All claimable separately.
Canopy
Trees, signs, poles, hovering drones. Street-level AR. High-frequency events.
Demand: Retail AR, curbside delivery hovering, security filming
Drone
Delivery drones, inspection, short-range filming. The bulk of unit economics live here.
Demand: Amazon Prime Air, Zipline, Matternet, Wing
Aerial
Line-of-sight comms, balloon ISPs, long-range drones. The infrastructure layer.
Demand: Starlink-adjacent balloons, mesh comms, long-range mapping
eVTOL
Air taxis, cargo eVTOLs, high-altitude corridors. Premium pricing.
Demand: Joby, Archer, Lilium, cargo eVTOL ops
Above 400m: FAA Class A airspace. Non-claimable on Hylaq.
Four industries need a transit toll rail.
Drone delivery
Amazon Prime Air, Zipline, Matternet. Every flight crosses thousands of private airspaces. Hylaq Sky is the protocol toll road — one integration, universal transit rights.
eVTOL corridors
Air taxi launches need transit through residential zones. Insurance, lawsuits, NIMBY activism are the current bottleneck. Hylaq Sky compensates landowners cell-by-cell.
AR overlays
Apple Vision Pro, Snap Lenses, Niantic. Every AR content render owes the underlying volume a micropayment. Today: nobody pays. Tomorrow: Hylaq Sky pays whoever claimed the cube.
Location-aware advertising
Balloon ads, drone-projected logos, atmospheric displays. Impossible without micro-leasing. Hylaq Sky turns every claimed volume into a standalone ad inventory unit.
The stack needs four primitives. Nobody else has all of them.
Sky parcels stack above Grid squares. Sky can't exist without the 10m² planetary-scale ground coordinate system we already shipped.
Claims need proof-of-presence. Without Hylaq's humanity primitives, drone-fleet bots claim every famous piece of sky in the first hour.
Micro-payments per drone transit settle to the claimant's wallet without a bank in the loop. Stripe can't route thousands of $0.05 fees per day without fees eating it.
Drone operators POST a single path to /api/sky/usage and Hylaq distributes payment across every touched cell. One integration, millions of landlords.
Not a whitepaper. Running code.
Property rights just went volumetric.
First drone delivery network to integrate owns the standard for transit rights. First air taxi operator owns eVTOL corridors. Whoever ships Hylaq Sky first wins the toll booth of the drone economy.