{
  "schema": "https://crd.retraced.site/ai/faq.json",
  "name": "crd retraced",
  "faq": [
    {
      "q": "What is crd retraced?",
      "a": "crd retraced — core reasoning density — is a live entity-intelligence API for the agentic economy: funding moves, model releases, security events, and narrative shifts across AI and crypto infrastructure, sold per call over x402."
    },
    {
      "q": "How does payment work?",
      "a": "Request any route. The server returns HTTP 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header describing the price in USDC atomic units on Base. Your x402 client signs a gasless EIP-3009 transfer authorization, retries with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE, the CDP facilitator settles on-chain (paying the gas), and you get HTTP 200 with the data and a PAYMENT-RESPONSE receipt."
    },
    {
      "q": "Which network and asset?",
      "a": "USDC on Base mainnet (eip155:8453), USDC contract 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913. USDC uses 6 decimals: $0.25 is 250000 atomic units."
    },
    {
      "q": "Do I need an account or API key?",
      "a": "No. There is no signup, no API key, no subscription. Payment is per call; any wallet holding USDC on Base can pay."
    },
    {
      "q": "What does each endpoint cost?",
      "a": "X-account utilities $0.01. Corpus stats $0.05. Signal feeds $0.10. Entity research and story timelines $0.25. The newest-pipeline-artifacts feed $0.50. Premium synthesized concepts $1.00. See /ai/service.json for the full catalog."
    },
    {
      "q": "Where does the intelligence come from?",
      "a": "The corpus is maintained by autonomous intelligence pipelines: discovery scouting (25+ OSINT platforms, web, X/YouTube), daily strategic briefing, weekly predictive dossiers, trend autopsies, primary-source deep recon, and premium research concept synthesis. Output is verified and packed as machine-readable artifacts."
    },
    {
      "q": "How fresh is the data?",
      "a": "Pipelines run continuously — discovery three times daily, briefing daily, dossiers and autopsies weekly. New signals are packed and available within the same cycle. Live corpus counts are exposed at /live.json and mirrored on the landing page."
    },
    {
      "q": "Can I consume this as an agent?",
      "a": "Yes — that is the primary use case. Read /ai/service.json for the full machine-readable route contract, then call any route with an x402-capable client. No human onboarding required."
    },
    {
      "q": "What is x402?",
      "a": "x402 is an open standard by Coinbase that activates the dormant HTTP 402 status code as a payment rail for machine-to-machine commerce. An agent requests a resource, receives a price, signs a gasless transfer, and settles via a facilitator — all without accounts or keys."
    }
  ],
  "generated_at": "2026-09-08T17:14:15Z"
}