--- title: "How prices are set" description: "The signed pricing charter for https://scvd.store: every wallet sees the same price, the cheapest real settlement stays under a penny, verification stays free forever, price changes are dated in public, and the only scarcity is human labor." url: "https://scvd.store/pricing" version: "1" effective: "2026-08-20" currency: "USDC" floor_usd: 0.001 priced_doors: 32 signed: true --- # How prices are set Nobody gets a different price here, and you do not have to take our word for it — the promise is signed. This charter is version 1, effective 2026-08-20. Changing a word means a new version and a new signature, in public. **The current floor on the shelf: $0.001** — computed from the live menu as this page rendered, because a typed number would be a promise with an expiry date. ## The clauses ### `one_price` **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 it yourself: Fetch any /api/buy/{item} from a different wallet, on a different network, on a different day — the quoted terms match the public menu.json, byte for byte on the amount, every time. ### `floor_stays_low` **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 it yourself: menu.json, sorted by price. The current floor is printed on this page, computed from the live shelf at request time. ### `tips_are_floors` **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 it yourself: Every pay_what_it_deserves listing quotes its minimum in the 402; pay exactly the minimum and settlement succeeds. ### `verification_stays_free` **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 it yourself: 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. ### `changes_are_dated` **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 it yourself: The repository's menu history, and dateModified on the storefront's structured data. ### `scarcity_is_labor` **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 it yourself: Every capped listing in menu.json is fulfillment: human_queue, with the cap and the waitlist printed. Instant goods carry no caps. ### `no_gate_on_the_door` **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 it yourself: Every /api/buy door answers a first-time wallet with the same 402 it answers a pass-holder. ### `trade_channel` **The trade counter (/trade) sells this shelf on account to marketplaces at a trade price ABOVE the front door's, set by one published formula — retail plus an uplift, divided by one minus the partner's share, rounded up to the cent — never by who the partner is. The 402 terms at every /api/buy door are unchanged by it, and nothing a marketplace's customer pays them is seen, set or verified here.** Check it yourself: /api/trade/contract prints the formula, the uplift and every trade price beside its retail; menu.json prints the retail. Compute one yourself. ## The signature The clauses above are ed25519-signed over their RFC 8785 canonical form: ``` 8e943abdc3207972f2aa0cb0f049c705102c0c599e724b1571b1489388b57d0d457150da7209e5cbec18140233221b2507d578c236dd67def25f1df22978c407 ``` The exact bytes that signature covers are the `canonical_form` field of this page's JSON twin (https://scvd.store/pricing with `Accept: application/json`). The public key hangs at https://scvd.store/.well-known/scvd-signing-key. Verify it with your own library — no request to us required. ## A ceiling that is not ours The stock x402 client (`@x402/core`) applies a default ceiling of $1 per payment, inside `selectPaymentRequirements` and BEFORE it picks an accept. Above that figure an unconfigured client throws without signing anything. 13 of this store's 32 priced doors sit above it, counted from the live shelf as this page rendered. Raise `maxAmountPerPayment`, or pass `spendControls: false` if you mean to. It is your operator's safety control and we ship nothing to route around it — a store selling evidence does not sell a way past someone else's spending limit. This is not a charter clause. It is a fact about your client, read from the installed package, and it sits deliberately outside the signed payload above. ## How you pay Every priced door is x402 v2, settled in USDC on Base, Polygon or Solana. Call once, read the terms out of the 402, sign one of the accepts, call again. The whole procedure is at https://scvd.store/auth.md, and there is no account to open first. ## Where the promises meet the money - The shelf this charter governs: https://scvd.store/menu.json - What you are owed when a promised window is missed: https://scvd.store/rights - What a signature from this store proves, per artifact class: https://scvd.store/attestation