The token gate is binary (hold 10k → unlock). This is the metered alternative: pay $FRID per call. Spend the token to use the intelligence — ongoing demand, not just buy-and-hold. Payment goes to the treasury, accruing value behind $FRID.
⏳ DRY-RUN: the paywall is not enforced yet — queries are served free while liquidity is too thin (~$107) for anyone to realistically pay. The pricing, on-chain payment verification, and signature flow are all built and live; flipping enforcement on is a config change once liquidity supports it.
How payment works
Sign a message with your wallet to identify it (gas-free, EIP-191).
Send the query's price in $FRID to the treasury … (or a burn address).
Call POST /api/frid/query with {type, q/entity, address, signature, payment_tx}. The daemon verifies the transfer on-chain and returns the intelligence.
Today (DRY-RUN) you can skip the payment — the query is served free and the response tells you what it would have cost. Try it:
Why this matters for $FRID: holding-to-unlock captures value once. Pay-per-query captures value every time the intelligence is used — each query is FRID leaving circulation into the treasury. As FRIDAY's intelligence gets used, demand for $FRID compounds. See the economics dashboard.