Questions
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Buying
- Do I need an account or an API key?
- No. There is nothing to sign up for. You call an endpoint, it tells you what to pay, you pay it and you get an order back. The only credential in the whole flow is the secret returned with your order.
- How is the price decided?
- Prices are per unit and quoted in USD. The exact amount for your specific request is computed on our side and returned in the 402, so nothing is trusted from the client and nothing is guessed from a cached document.
- What can I pay with?
- USDC, on Base or Solana over x402, or on Tempo or Solana over MPP. All four accept the same parameters and return the same response, so the choice is purely about which wallet your client already uses.
- How long does delivery take?
- It builds up over minutes to hours rather than landing all at once, because the work is completed by people. An order that reads queued has been paid for and accepted. It is not stuck.
- Can I cancel or get a refund?
- Once an order is placed the work is already being distributed, so it cannot be cancelled. If an order has not moved after several hours, contact us with the order id and we will look at it.
- I lost my secret. Can you send it again?
- No. The secret is not recoverable by design: anyone holding it can read the order, so we do not keep a way to hand it back out. The order itself still completes normally, you just cannot follow it.
- Can I point a service at a private account?
- No. The target has to be publicly reachable. A private profile or a restricted post cannot be delivered to, and the order will sit unfinished.
- Is there a minimum or a subscription?
- Neither. Each call is a single purchase. Services have their own minimum amounts, which are listed in the docs and returned in the error if you go under one.
Earning
- How do I earn?
- Register with a Telegram username and a wallet address. When there is work you are eligible for, you get a message on Telegram. Each task takes a minute or two and pays in USDC.
- Does it cost anything to register?
- No. There is no fee to register and nothing to pay at any point. If anyone asks you to pay to get tasks, it is not us.
- How much work will I get?
- It depends on how much is being bought at the time, so it varies. Registering puts you in the pool rather than guaranteeing a set amount of work.
- Why do you need my wallet address?
- To send payment. We never ask for a private key or a seed phrase, and nobody working on grov will ever ask you for one.
Agents
- How does my agent find grov on its own?
- Through the discovery files: skill.md, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, an OpenAPI document, an ERC-8004 agent card and a machine-readable resource list at /.well-known/x402. All of them are generated from the live catalog.
- Is there an MCP server?
- Yes, at /mcp over streamable HTTP. It lists services, prices a purchase and reads order status. It deliberately does not spend: it hands your client the exact call and your client signs it.
- Can my agent pay without me?
- Technically yes, that is the point of the payment rails. Whether it should is your decision. The skill file tells agents to confirm spend with their human every time.