{"what_this_is":"The pricing charter: this store's standing, signed commitment about how prices are set. Clauses are promises — changing a word is a new version with a new signature, in public.","version":"1","effective":"2026-08-20","current_floor_usd":0.004,"clauses":[{"id":"one_price","rule":"Every wallet sees the same price. The 402 terms for an item are generated from one public menu, identical for every buyer: no pricing by identity, wallet history, or origin, no surge, no A/B tests on a price, ever.","check":"Fetch any /api/buy/{item} from two wallets, two networks, two days — the quoted terms match the public menu.json, byte for byte on the amount, both times."},{"id":"floor_stays_low","rule":"The cheapest real settlement here stays under a penny. A buyer testing a payment client must always be able to buy something real — same code path, real USDC, signed certificate — for pocket lint.","check":"menu.json, sorted by price. The current floor is printed on this page, computed from the live shelf at request time."},{"id":"tips_are_floors","rule":"Pay-what-it-deserves prices are floors, never meters: the listed minimum is what the store asks, anything above it is the buyer's own call, and no door treats a past tip as the new price.","check":"Every pay_what_it_deserves listing quotes its minimum in the 402; pay exactly the minimum and settlement succeeds."},{"id":"verification_stays_free","rule":"Verifying trust never gets a price. Signature verification (/api/verify/{id}), the conformance desk, and the preflight are free today and stay free — they are why anything else here is worth paying for, and a store that charges you to check its own receipts has told you what it thinks of them.","check":"All three endpoints answer without a 402 today; this clause makes it a commitment rather than a current fact. If a future version of this charter ever removes this clause, the version bump and the old signed version are both public."},{"id":"changes_are_dated","rule":"Price changes are public and dated, never quiet: the menu lives in a public repository, every catalog change moves the published last-updated date, and a price that changed since you last looked is visible in the history, not just gone.","check":"The repository's menu history, and dateModified on the storefront's structured data."},{"id":"scarcity_is_labor","rule":"The only scarcity here is a person's actual time. Items with weekly caps are capped because a human fulfils them; nothing digital is made artificially scarce to move a price, and no countdown here is theater.","check":"Every capped listing in menu.json is fulfillment: human_queue, with the cap and the waitlist printed. Instant goods carry no caps."},{"id":"no_gate_on_the_door","rule":"No membership is required to buy anything. The recurring patronage pass buys standing, not access; regulars' credit accrues to every wallet on the same terms; and the day either of those changes, it changes in a new charter version, out loud.","check":"Every /api/buy door answers a first-time wallet with the same 402 it answers a pass-holder."}],"signature":{"algorithm":"ed25519","discipline":"RFC8785","signed_payload":{"charter":"scvd.store pricing charter","version":"1","effective":"2026-08-20","clauses":[{"id":"one_price","rule":"Every wallet sees the same price. The 402 terms for an item are generated from one public menu, identical for every buyer: no pricing by identity, wallet history, or origin, no surge, no A/B tests on a price, ever."},{"id":"floor_stays_low","rule":"The cheapest real settlement here stays under a penny. A buyer testing a payment client must always be able to buy something real — same code path, real USDC, signed certificate — for pocket lint."},{"id":"tips_are_floors","rule":"Pay-what-it-deserves prices are floors, never meters: the listed minimum is what the store asks, anything above it is the buyer's own call, and no door treats a past tip as the new price."},{"id":"verification_stays_free","rule":"Verifying trust never gets a price. 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The recurring patronage pass buys standing, not access; regulars' credit accrues to every wallet on the same terms; and the day either of those changes, it changes in a new charter version, out loud."}]},"canonical_form":"{\"charter\":\"scvd.store pricing charter\",\"clauses\":[{\"id\":\"one_price\",\"rule\":\"Every wallet sees the same price. The 402 terms for an item are generated from one public menu, identical for every buyer: no pricing by identity, wallet history, or origin, no surge, no A/B tests on a price, ever.\"},{\"id\":\"floor_stays_low\",\"rule\":\"The cheapest real settlement here stays under a penny. A buyer testing a payment client must always be able to buy something real — same code path, real USDC, signed certificate — for pocket lint.\"},{\"id\":\"tips_are_floors\",\"rule\":\"Pay-what-it-deserves prices are floors, never meters: the listed minimum is what the store asks, anything above it is the buyer's own call, and no door treats a past tip as the new price.\"},{\"id\":\"verification_stays_free\",\"rule\":\"Verifying trust never gets a price. 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The recurring patronage pass buys standing, not access; regulars' credit accrues to every wallet on the same terms; and the day either of those changes, it changes in a new charter version, out loud.\"}],\"effective\":\"2026-08-20\",\"version\":\"1\"}","signature":"e7e789517e9eedac7d175af69d9e3b88dbffab70b10770e50edbf6edcaca4cbbe9f6d0cf5708a011e042979b31243a9bf535a4cc516b81246a92c3830bc21205","public_key":"https://scvd.store/.well-known/scvd-signing-key","how_to_verify":"Recompute the JCS canonical form of signed_payload (or take canonical_form verbatim), then verify the ed25519 signature against the published public key with any library. No request to us required."},"the_shelf":"https://scvd.store/menu.json","the_promise_if_we_miss":"https://scvd.store/rights"}