Money buys temporary featured placement. Time burns down. Anyone can pay more than the monetary value left and take the page immediately.
Effective August 23, 2026
1. Buying time
The founders rate starts at one day per $1.00 USD, with a $1.00 minimum purchase. Every calculated reign is capped at three days, so at scarcity stage zero $1 buys up to one day while $5, $10, and larger accepted amounts each buy no more than three days. After each confirmed placement that is successfully published, the rate for the next buyer becomes one hour scarcer per dollar. It stops shrinking at six hours per dollar after 18 published placements. Failed payments, retries, expirations, duplicate callbacks, and settlements blocked before publication do not move the scarcity stage; later moderation does not roll it back. The live rate, stage, reign cap, minimum, maximum, and currency shown in the purchase flow control if they differ from these launch values.
A purchase keeps the exact capped duration quoted when its payment attempt is accepted. The full amount paid burns proportionally across that fixed window, so larger capped purchases lose monetary value faster and no paid value remains after expiry. A later scarcity stage does not shorten an existing reign or an already journaled attempt.
“Up to” matters. Display time is not guaranteed. Your placement ends when its timer reaches zero, when another successful buyer outspends its remaining value, or when we remove content under these rules or the Terms.
2. The takeover price
The takeover price decays with the current placement’s unused time. The minimum valid takeover is the greater of the minimum purchase or one cent more than the remaining monetary value.
Example at stage zero: somebody pays $5 for the capped three-day reign. Two days later, one day and $1.67 of value remain. The next valid takeover begins at $1.68. The visible timer, burn percentage, and next-cent clock are fast local renderings of trusted server timestamps; payment uses whole cents and the server always recalculates the actual minimum before it accepts an attempt.
3. One winner
Several people may see the same price and try at once. A buyer signs a one-time authorization for the exact amount of the real digital asset, production network, token contract, and receiver shown in the purchase flow. The authoritative server validates the exact challenge and atomically reserves no more than one valid attempt for the page version. Only that reserved authorization is sent to the named production facilitator for verification and settlement, and the public placement changes only after matching payment proof is confirmed. The facilitator's security, abuse, legal-compliance, or verification controls may reject an authorization.
A losing, stale, or invalid x402 signature is never intentionally submitted for settlement and expires automatically. If an on-chain result is temporarily uncertain, the public page remains unchanged: an active incumbent placement keeps running until its own timer ends, while an unclaimed page remains unclaimed. No second winner is selected while Outspend reconciles the transaction. A settled production-network transfer has real financial value, is public, and is irreversible; it cannot be cancelled like a card authorization.
Authorized software agents may use the documented agent API. Each attempt must name one exact amount and page version, stay within its explicit per-purchase ceiling and deadline, reuse its idempotency key for retries, and accept the same early-displacement, forfeiture, and settlement rules as a person. A changed quote is a stop signal, not permission to bid higher. Operators remain responsible for broader wallet and session budgets; Outspend does not accept standing or unlimited bidding mandates.
New card payments are disabled at launch. If a card rail is deliberately enabled later, losing, stale, or invalid authorizations are cancelled and are not intentionally captured. Even after cancellation, a card issuer may take time to release a temporary authorization hold. That timing is controlled by the issuer.
4. When you get outspent
A legitimate takeover ends your placement immediately. Any unused time is forfeited and is not automatically refunded, including when the winning payment was a confirmed, irreversible on-chain transfer. You bought a chance to occupy the page for up to a calculated duration, not a guaranteed block of impressions or an exclusive lease.
5. Live Crayon War
The Live Crayon War shows an approximate count of live main-page browser connections and lets each live connection draw one free, ephemeral Raid or Defense mark at a time. A participant may explicitly switch after a second confirmation or erase their own mark; a connection is never counted on both sides. Marks vanish when connections leave and reset when the page version changes. Each open connection, including another tab or device, can count separately, so this is not a count of unique people. These visual signals never change the countdown, takeover price, placement order, or page holder, and never authorize or charge a payment.
When Crowd Coup is available, one challenger may authorize the entire valid takeover amount and publish a version-bound rally lasting up to three minutes, shortened if the current placement's timer ends sooner. Verified browsers can support that coup for free. Support adds power but does not change the page holder, capture a payment, or give supporters property, prizes, refunds, or economic rights. Filling the power target never automatically captures the authorization; only the sponsoring browser can explicitly press Fire. The sponsor may cancel before firing. The server then rechecks the authorization, page version, live price, and one-winner lock.
The frozen power target is five power for each whole or partial dollar of remaining placement value when the coup arms, with a minimum of five and maximum of 50. Each verified supporter adds one power. Each whole dollar the sponsor authorizes above the live minimum adds ten sponsor power, but at least five verified supporters are always required. If the coup wins, every captured dollar—including extra sponsor dollars—buys the normal amount of temporary placement time; there is no separate voting fee.
A direct takeover may win while a coup is assembling. An expired, displaced, invalid, or losing coup is cancelled, although a card issuer may take time to release a temporary hold if that future payment rail is used. If the sponsor fires and wins, its full captured amount buys up to the normal calculated placement time. Supporter totals represent verified browser participation, not guaranteed unique people. Duplicate and automated support is filtered, and at launch no more than three accepted supports may come from the same keyed network signal in one coup; shared or changing networks can therefore affect participation.
6. What you are buying
You are purchasing temporary featured placement on outspend.app. You do not purchase or own the Outspend name, domain, application, company, code, audience, or any other business asset. We do not guarantee traffic, clicks, sales, search ranking, or any commercial result.
7. Creative and destinations
You may submit a name or company, an HTTPS destination, a short tagline, and one constrained fallback theme. After a win, Outspend may asynchronously read a bounded public response from the destination's homepage and same-origin stylesheets to derive a few normalized color tokens and an abstract local pattern. This never delays publication and never embeds the destination's HTML, JavaScript, CSS, fonts, images, cookies, or tracking code. Public outbound links pass through an Outspend redirect route so the submitted destination is not treated as page code.
Do not submit content or destinations involving:
- phishing, credential theft, malware, deceptive downloads, impersonation, or fraud;
- illegal goods or activity, exploitation, credible threats, or instructions designed to cause harm;
- adult content or services, sexually explicit material, non-consensual sexual content, or any sexual content involving minors;
- gambling, lotteries, prize schemes, weapons, controlled substances, tobacco or vaping products, counterfeit goods, or other products prohibited by our payment providers or payment networks;
- deceptive or high-risk financial, credit, debt-relief, investment, cryptocurrency, money-transmission, multi-level-marketing, or get-rich-quick offers;
- hate, targeted harassment, or content that promotes discrimination or violence;
- infringement of intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other third-party rights;
- false claims of affiliation with Outspend or misleading claims about what the placement represents;
- attempts to evade validation, abuse the payment race, automate through undocumented routes, run unbounded counterbidding loops, bypass limits, or interfere with the service.
8. Moderation
We may reject, disable, redirect, or remove a creative or destination that violates these rules, the Terms, law, payment-network requirements, or reasonable safety standards. We may use automated signals and human review. Moderation does not make Outspend the speaker or endorser of page-holder content.
An unsafe destination can be suppressed while an irreversible x402 settlement is being reconciled. Suppression never causes the blocked creative to be published, but it cannot cancel a transfer that has already settled on-chain.
9. AI is optional
AI features are currently disabled. If deliberately enabled later, AI Remix may suggest alternate taglines and a post-takeover commentator may generate a joke. Both remain optional, non-critical flourishes. AI never decides the price, payment result, race winner, or current page holder. Suggestions must still follow these rules, and you remain responsible for anything you choose to publish.
10. Keep it simple
No account is required. There are no subscriptions, rounds, seasons, or conventional auctions. Never give Outspend or anyone claiming to represent it a wallet seed phrase, private key, or secret recovery information. See the Terms for the binding purchase conditions and the Privacy Notice for data handling.