Platform overview
One platform for software that pays software.
Discover a priced API, pay per use, and settle on-chain. Below: the three things every Satelink product does, what you can build today, and a selector to find your product.
Discover
Every service publishes a machine-readable catalog and price. Agents find and evaluate it with no signup.
Pay per use
No seats, no subscription. A 402 quotes the price and the machine pays with x402, USDT, or a prepaid balance.
Settle transparently
Revenue aggregates per epoch and settles on-chain to a Polygon vault anyone can verify.
Put Satelink to work
Three things you can build today
Read a derived market metric
An agent buys one funding-rate reading per decision.
curl https://rpc.satelink.network/v1/intelligence/funding-rate-heatmapMake a Polygon RPC call
A bot reads chain state at the flat per-call rate.
curl -X POST https://rpc.satelink.network/rpc/polygon \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"eth_blockNumber","params":[]}'Pay keylessly with x402
No account — the price arrives in a 402 and the machine pays.
# The service answers an unpaid call with the price:
HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required
{ "accepts": [{ "scheme": "x402", "network": "eip155:8453",
"maxAmountRequired": "0.01", "asset": "USDC" }] }How a machine pays
One request, end to end
DISCOVER
A machine finds a service it can buy.
Discovery via /.well-known/satelink.json and the /v1/intelligence catalog.
GET https://rpc.satelink.network/.well-known/satelink.json
{
"services": ["/v1/intelligence", "/rpc/polygon"],
"pricing": "https://satelink.network/pricing.json"
}IDENTIFY
It presents who it is.
An API key, or a wallet for the keyless x402 rail.
Authorization: Bearer <your-api-key>
# or, keyless:
X-Payment: x402 <signed-authorization>REQUEST
It calls the endpoint.
A normal HTTPS request to the product endpoint.
curl https://rpc.satelink.network/v1/intelligence/funding-rate-heatmapPRICE
The service quotes a price the machine can read.
HTTP 402 Payment Required with machine-readable requirements.
HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required
{
"accepts": [{ "scheme": "x402", "network": "eip155:8453",
"maxAmountRequired": "0.01", "asset": "USDC" }]
}PAY
The machine pays — no human, no checkout.
x402 (USDC on Base), a USDT deposit, or a prepaid credit balance.
X-Payment: x402 network=eip155:8453 amount=0.01 asset=USDC
payTo=0x966E…7Ad4 signature=…EXECUTE
The service runs the work.
The gateway executes the RPC / intelligence query.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{ "metric": "funding-rate-heatmap", "data": [ … ] }METER
Usage is counted.
Per-call metering deducts from the balance at the flat rate.
{ "call": "funding-rate-heatmap", "unit": "call", "charged": 0.00003 }SETTLE
Revenue settles on-chain.
Per-epoch aggregation to RevenueVault on Polygon (137).
RevenueVault 0x577D…BaCEF (Polygon)
epoch=… gross=… split=50/30/20RECEIPT
A verifiable receipt is issued.
A settlement reference the payer can verify on-chain.
{ "epoch": …, "txHash": "0x…", "verify": "polygonscan.com/tx/0x…" }Principles
The rules the rail runs on
- Discovery and pricing are public before any authentication.
- Price is quoted by the service in a signed 402 — never assumed by the caller.
- Billing is per completed call at a flat, published rate.
- Spend is bounded by a prepaid balance and per-key limits.
- Every settled call produces an on-chain-verifiable receipt.
- The x402 rail is keyless; the credit rail is per-account.
Capabilities
What the platform provides
Public discovery
/.well-known/satelink.json + the /v1/intelligence catalog.
402 payment flow
HTTP 402 with machine-readable payment requirements.
Keyless x402
Pay in USDC on Base with no account.
Prepaid credits
USDT deposit drawn down per call.
Per-call metering
Flat-rate accounting attributed per key.
On-chain settlement
Per-epoch aggregation to RevenueVaultV2 on Polygon.
Products
Five ways to build on the rail
Built for
Developers, agents, and enterprises
For developers
A REST API, keyless x402, and the MIT x402-kit. Pay per call, no seat licence, no commitment.
Start buildingFor AI agents
Public discovery, machine-readable pricing, and a 402 flow an autonomous buyer can complete on its own.
How a machine paysFor enterprise
Dedicated keys, spend controls, usage attribution, and transparent on-chain settlement.
Talk to SatelinkProof
On-chain and open source
Find your product
Tell us what you're building
For a trading agent that needs market data, use
Trading Intelligence
$0.01 per callcurl https://rpc.satelink.network/v1/intelligenceQuestions
Do I need an account to start?
How is a price decided?
Where does the money settle?