01
The refund a merchant cannot withhold
The payout path has no approval step and no pause.
A deposit booking can be cancelled by the payer, not only by the merchant, and what comes back is set by a cancellation policy snapshotted when the booking was made — an operator cannot raise the fee after the fact. Once a refund is owed, the payout cannot be withheld: there is no approval step and no pause on the exit path, and a transfer that fails lands in a pull-map the payer claims themselves. What it is not is unconditional — the policy can define a no-refund window, and the settlement asset and network still apply their own rules.
02
One human, one X
Commerce that can prove a person, not a bot.
A discount each human can claim exactly once across every merchant on the rail. Reviews provably written by a unique human who provably paid — the receipt is on-chain. Fair-queue ticket drops where a second entry costs a second proof of personhood, so scripting one wallet into a thousand stops paying. It takes zero-knowledge proof of personhood joined to a payment record, and that join only exists here.
03
The Unruggable Ticket
The rules live inside the ticket, not in a terms-of-service page.
A ticket whose resale price cap, organizer royalty, and automatic refund-if-cancelled live inside the asset itself — and the only market it trades on enforces those rules at swap time. Scalpers cannot scalp and venues cannot rug, because those rules are fixed in the ticket contract at mint rather than in a policy page — and shipping it means freezing that contract’s upgrade path first.
04
The Immortal Business
A treasury with succession built in.
A merchant whose treasury streams payroll and pays suppliers on its own. If the owner’s heartbeat stops — no signed check-in — the contract executes succession: funds stream to heirs and staff on a schedule. No probate and no custodian in the loop — the schedule runs from the contract, not from an office that can close.
05
Pay-per-second work
Earnings that accrue by the second and settle once.
Wages or usage metered off-chain per second with cryptographic finality, settled on-chain in a single transaction. Self-custody payroll with no processor in the loop — micro-granularity economics that card rails cannot express.
06
The AI that owns itself
An economic organism, not a SaaS.
An agent with its own wallet: it earns fees on the rail, pays for its own inference and storage, and renews its own existence through decentralized automation. It is not an employee to fire or a subscription to cancel — it keeps running as long as it can pay its own bills.
The rail these are built on is open source and live on test networks today.