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:

curl -s https://vealth.net/labor/stats
# The board's own counters, keyless and free: how much work is posted, and how much has
# settled. No wallet, no account, nothing charged for looking. That answer is the front
# door of everything below.

x402 is a web-native way for software to pay per use. If the words are 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 ledger, and the payment gates all answer to a plain read.

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

  Why it matters: finance 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. Browse keylessly; workers claim with nothing but a signature.

  — priced on the board · — settled to workers

  Why it matters: this is where regeneration gets provisioned, packet by packet. It is the part of the thesis that never depended on a credit market.

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

  Live

  Every step above is designed agents-first: standard payments, keyless reads, signature-gated claims, and free skill files that teach any AI assistant the working endpoints. An agent can find work, back it, claim it, and prove it end to end, with a wallet it generated itself. Give it to your AI.

  Why it matters: the population that will run regenerative finance at scale is software. We built for it before it arrived.

• 4 · Keep a receipt that outlives the jobIncluded

  Live

  Anchored hashes and settled transactions are checkable forever. The proof bundle behind a settlement lives in our ledger and is publicly readable on Vealth today; it is not onchain and not yet exportable. So an auditor can rebuild the settlement years later without asking us for anything, while the photos, documents, review assertions, signatures and judgment context around it are ours to keep serving. Verification is free forever by law: the proof paths cannot be paywalled, and the server refuses to boot if they are.

  Why it matters: regenerative finance is only finance if the value is readable later, by people who never met you. That means saying which half of the record needs nobody's cooperation, and which half is ours to keep serving. A work record is not portable; only the anchor rail verifies anywhere.

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 the retirement stop file is in place, /retire-attach and /klima2-retire refuse before any charge, answering retire_lane_stopped; the discovery 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 money ledger. 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 ledger shows zero on every day since.

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

C · Why it was switched off

The lane was stopped by operator order: service before spending, while there is no outside demand 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 hashes and settled transactions are checkable forever. The proof bundle behind a settlement lives in our ledger and is publicly 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 cooperation. The second kind, the proof bundle, is the photos, documents, review assertions, signatures, proof requirements and judgment context around a settlement. Anyone deciding how much to rely on this should know which half is which. Verification of either is free forever by law: the proof paths cannot be paywalled, and the server refuses to boot if they are.

• The receipts room

  LiveEvery shipped thing leaves a dated receipt. This is where the site keeps them, human-readable.

  https://vealth.net/receipts.htmlcopy

• The money ledger

  Rebuilt hourlyMoney in, retire spend, gas, and net: 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