The public screening began with users carrying three different kinds of wallets.
The community arts hall was smaller than the premiere theatre, but for Amina it was the bigger test. No single provider controlled every user. LalaLive, DreamPort, and MoyoXR had agreed to a shared open-consent protocol for the pilot. Creators could watch royalties arrive in real time. Ruth observed. Marwa attended as LalaLive's CEO.
The experience used a scaled clean pack. Each wallet translated the same rights and lineage into its own interface.
Four minutes after the screening began, a MoyoXR user revoked training permission. The experience kept running. Creator royalties for the already-played contribution continued, while the future-training queue changed to `REVOKED`.
A second user did the same thing from a LalaLive wallet.
Joel sent one message from the technical booth: `NO PLAYBACK IMPACT.`
Sifa showed Amina her own screen. “This is how choice should look. Not like an emergency.”
When the experience ended, the audience received more than a satisfaction survey. They were asked whether they understood their rights, whether they could exit easily, whether they would pay for the service, and whether visible lineage affected trust.
The rating settled at 8.5. The royalty meter showed creator payouts. Ticket sales cleared the event's break-even point.
“Small-venue economics,” Marwa said.
“Yes,” Amina replied. “Not proof that scale is solved.”
The Q&A went long. One user asked whether a provider could deliver a rich experience without knowing the user's identity. MoyoXR demonstrated an anonymous session token that carried asset lineage but not a personal name. A creator asked whether revoking training would cancel the royalty for an experience already delivered. Joel explained that lawful past use remained paid; future training reuse stopped.
Marwa raised a practical objection. “Every one of these controls increases support load, fraud surface, and engineering cost.”
Amina agreed instead of dismissing her. “Then fraud, failed migrations, and support minutes belong in the public metrics too. Open does not mean perfect.”
Ruth reminded everyone that one successful event was not safety certification for years of operation.
Three volunteers then ran a cross-wallet exercise. One transferred an experience receipt, another revoked training, and a third deleted stored data after the session while keeping purchase history. The common protocol exchanged rights states, not content.
Mwanaidi photographed the royalty meter for collective members. Providers agreed to preserve interoperability logs for audit.
Before the final totals were announced, investor Kamau Rono asked Amina to step backstage. His term sheet could fund a new platform, engineers, and creator advances immediately.
The condition was three-year exclusivity over the open-consent protocol and clean-pack catalog.
“You call it open and then close it?” Amina asked.
“Open for users. Competitors can license it.”
“Can a user transfer to a provider that refuses your license?”
“Not supported.”
Kamau spoke plainly rather than villainously. “Independence does not scale without capital. Refuse this and you may have excellent principles and one hundred users.”
He was not entirely wrong. A small independent studio would grow slowly. Standards work would cost money. Creator payouts would be less predictable.
Amina asked Joel to read the term sheet as creator representative. It also gave the fund ownership of future protocol improvements.
Joel said, “That creates a new gatekeeper.”
Kamau replied, “Dependency is not a sin. Abuse is the problem.”
Amina considered that. The issue was not whether systems had dependencies. The issue was who could leave them and under what rules.
She closed the folder. “No.”
“The offer expires tonight.”
“I understand.”
“You will call in six months.”
“Maybe for a different deal.”
Kamau left.
The final event accounts showed a modest real profit. Users from three providers had entered and exited without converting to one central identity. Two live revocations had succeeded. No exit incident occurred.
Marwa followed Amina as the audience dispersed.
“You can build this inside LalaLive with our resources.”
“For transition, yes.”
“Not transition. Permanent authority.”
She handed Amina a folder printed with a title in large type:
`CHIEF CONSENT OFFICER — PERMANENT AUTHORITY`.