A sequence you can run, not a story you have to believe.

Part one

What runs today.

Four steps, in the order we would walk anyone through them. Each one runs right now, each one leaves proof, and each one makes the next make sense. Start with the free read, which costs nothing and needs no wallet. If you would rather not use a terminal, the live board shows the same work.

curl -s https://vealth.net/labor/stats
# The board's own counters, free and open: how much work is posted, and how much has
# settled. No wallet, no account, nothing charged for looking. Everything below
# starts from that answer.

x402 is a web-native way for software to pay per use. If the word is new, the sections below explain themselves as you go.

• 1 · Look inside before you trust anythingFree, no wallet

  Live

  Every claim on this page is checkable without an account, a wallet, or permission. The work board, the money page, and the payment steps all answer to a plain read.

  curl -s https://vealth.net/labor/statscopy

  Why it matters: a money claim that asks for belief before proof is a pitch. This starts with the proof.

• 2 · Fund real work in a real placeFrom cents, at the funding step

  Live

  A live board of ecological work: real places, bounded scopes, proof requirements, and onchain settlement on Base. The first full cycle, posted to settled with a quality score, is onchain and readable without us. Browsing needs no account, and workers take a job with nothing but a signature. Find work or post a need.

  — priced on the board · — settled to workers. Priced is a proposal, not money paid. Most jobs have no funding yet; the Money page shows the live count. Every settlement so far has been a small digital job, and no physical job has settled yet.

  Why it matters: this is how regeneration gets paid for, job by job. It does not depend on a carbon credit market.

• 3 · Send your agent instead of your timeAgent-native

  Live

  Every step above is designed for software agents first: standard payments, reads that need no key, claims gated by a signature, and free skill files that teach any AI assistant the working endpoints. An agent can find work, vote for it, take it, and prove it end to end, with a wallet it generated itself. Give it to your AI.

  Why it matters: software agents can use every step directly, so the same doors serve people and agents.

• 4 · Keep a receipt that outlives the jobIncluded

  Live

  Anchored fingerprints and settled transactions are checkable forever. The evidence behind a settlement is kept on our own servers and is readable on Vealth today. It is not onchain and not yet exportable.

  So an auditor can rebuild the settlement years later without asking us. The photos, documents and reviewer notes around it stay with us. Checking is free forever: the proof paths cannot be paywalled, and the server refuses to start if they are.

  Why it matters: a payment record is only useful if people who never met you can read it later. One half of the record needs nobody’s help. The other half is ours to keep serving.

Where the thread ends: a place that got real work, a settlement anyone can audit on Base, and a receipt that says exactly what it proves and what it does not. That is the entire product today.

Part two

The rail that stopped.

A · What the paid door did

One standard payment executed a real carbon retirement through Klima’s Retirement Aggregator on Base, attributed onchain to the address the buyer named. The response returned the transaction hash and the buyer’s own public Carbonmark certificate page. No keys to manage, no slippage, no plumbing. It does not run. While retirement is stopped, the two paid doors, /retire-attach and /klima2-retire, refuse before any charge and answer with the code retire_lane_stopped. The price quote still returns, so an agent can read the price and learn the shape, but nothing is ever charged and nothing is ever retired.

What it proved: one payment can be the entire integration. That made regeneration a line item a script could afford, instead of a project only institutions could run.

B · What the machine did with it

Our own machine retired carbon through Klima’s hosted relay, gas-gated and self-funded, five cents at a time, with every run receipted in a public record of the machine’s money. The rail was gasless: we signed one dollar authorization and Klima’s executor paid the network fee out of that same signed budget, so credits could come off the market with an empty gas tank. No retirement has run since 4 August 2026. The counters above are a closed total, and the record shows zero on every day since.

What it proved: a habit is stronger evidence than a demo. The record showed the misses too, and it still does.

C · Why it was switched off

EcoWealth stopped the lane because service has to come before spending, and no outside demand was paying for it. Retiring credits was always the last step of regeneration and never the whole of it, and it was the one step that spent money without provisioning work in a named place. The rail sits built and parked. What the architecture kept is the part that generalizes: deliver before you charge, never make the paying wallet the beneficiary by default, hold no custody, fail closed and say so out loud, and price in cents so the first step is affordable. Those five rules run the work half of this page today.

What it proved: a rail you can switch off cleanly, that refuses before it charges, is worth more than one that quietly keeps spending. Paused means paused.

The record

Which half of the record needs us, and which half never will.

Anchored fingerprints and settled transactions are checkable forever. The evidence behind a settlement is kept on our own servers and is readable on Vealth today; it is not onchain and not yet exportable.

Every row in the table below is the first kind: a transaction on Base that does not change and that reads without our help. The second kind is the evidence around a settlement: the photos, documents, reviewer notes, proof requirements and the context for the decision. Anyone deciding how much to rely on this should know which half is which. Checking either is free forever: the proof paths cannot be paywalled, and the server refuses to start if they are.

• Verify a result

  LivePaste a job link, a wallet, a payment code or a receipt link and read the record behind it.

  https://vealth.net/?mode=verifycopy

• The machine’s money record

  Rebuilt hourlyMoney in, carbon retirement spend (zero since 4 August 2026, when retirements were stopped), network fees, and what is kept: the machine's circular flow, rescanned every hour from its own logs. Gaps included.

  https://vealth.net/machine.htmlcopy

• The contract, readable

  Source-verifiedThe settlement contract's source is verified on BaseScan, so an indexer can rebuild every worker's history from public events alone.

  https://basescan.org/address/0x76c17C51336BE7B39F5164802e08b9811477A14B#codecopy