{"door":"credential-certificate","what":"A certificate any AI can verify in one command, that cannot be bought without the underlying work existing, and that lapses honestly when the work stops.","how_this_differs":"An industry certificate is a picture: a human reads it, it stays true forever whether or not anything it describes still is, and it is priced on prestige. Every claim in ours carries the public endpoint or the on-chain transaction that proves it, a place certificate says in its own body that standing lapses, and the price is the price of proof.","products":[{"id":"worker","issue":"POST https://vealth.net/certificate/worker/<wallet>","price_usd":5,"certifies":"This certifies a RECORDED WORK HISTORY: the settled work packets, accepted proofs and banked credit this wallet holds on the Vealth board at the issue instant. It does not certify skill, competence, identity, or ecological outcome.","refused_when":"the wallet has zero settled work AND zero banked credit. The refusal is free and happens before the payment gate, so nothing is ever charged for an empty record."},{"id":"place","issue":"POST https://vealth.net/certificate/place  {\"place\":\"<place>\"}","price_usd":50,"certifies":"This certifies a STANDING READING under The Vealth Standard at the issue instant, computed from settled packets with accepted proof. It does not certify skill, identity, or ecological outcome, and it is a snapshot, not a permanent status.","refused_when":"never. Any standing including Unread is issuable: an honest baseline assessment is a legitimate thing to buy, and the certificate states the standing plainly rather than dressing it up.","lapse":"Standing is re-measured from live receipts and LAPSES when the work stops. This document is a dated snapshot and can only go out of date. The live reading always outranks it."}],"read":"GET https://vealth.net/certificate/<certificate_id>  (free, keyless, forever)","verify":{"free_forever":true,"seal":"Every certificate carries a sha256 over canonical JSON plus the exact command to recompute it yourself, with no code of ours.","anchor":"Each seal is queued with the free priority-proof registry; check it at https://vealth.net/anchor/verify?sha256=<hash>. Verification is unpaywallable by law.","underlying":"Each settled packet carries its own Base transaction hash, readable on any Base explorer or node."},"semantics":{"what_payment_buys":"The sealed, anchored, permanently addressable document. Never the achievement inside it: every fact in a certificate is already public and already free to read at its own endpoint before anyone pays.","does_not_prove":["skill or competence — nothing here is an examination, and no exam was sat","identity — a wallet is not a person, and nobody verified who controls it","ecological outcome — settlement records that work was accepted and paid for, never that a measured ecological result followed","that the work was performed well, only that a reviewer accepted the proof submitted for it"],"verification_is_free":true,"retrieval_is_free":true,"payer_is_not_the_subject":"Payment proves a wallet spent money. It does not prove the payer is the subject of the certificate, and nothing here ties the two together."},"pricing_source":"prices are config, not code: data/credential/certificate-pricing.json","overpayment":"Accepted, never refused. The settled price is the signal.","enumeration":"There is no door that lists certificates. One is reachable only by its own 192-bit random id.","first_rung":"https://vealth.net/paid/nine-rungs — the $5 course. Course, then work, then certificate."}