Live demo · Real paywall
This is not a mock-up. The link below is a live NanoTab paywall holding a short sample text. It costs $0.05 in USDC on Base — the same flow your readers and agents would use.
Title: Sample: How to keep tomatoes happy in a small garden
Free preview — first lines only: “Tomatoes want sun, steady water, and more room than you think. The five rules that actually matter…” The full text (five short rules) unlocks on payment.
Open the paywall link with an agent, or fetch it from code: the unpaid answer is a 402 with the price; pay $0.05 USDC on Base and the same link returns the words. In a plain browser you will see the paywall explanation page — there is no card checkout, for the demo or for any NanoTab link. Demo payments go to the NanoTab demo wallet.
NanoTab is new. Live paid-read totals are on /stats — we show the real number there rather than borrow someone else's. If the count looks small, that is because it is.