pay2seed: 1 percent, ads on the free tier, and agents as sellers

Three things the specs did not say. The reference hub takes 1 percent of
any payment that crosses it, charged to whoever is paying and never
deducted from a seeder or a relay, so a quoted price is what the
publisher gets and a promised floor is what the seeder is paid.

Public swarms are free to fetch and free to list, and an advertisement on
the swarm README page is what pays for that. The ad is on the hub page
and nowhere else: never inside a swarm, never injected into a file, a
segment or a playlist, and never in the catalogue or the market API. A
requester who wants no ad buys a seat instead. A free-to-watch channel
works the same way.

And a requester is a key, not a person. An agent can attest what it made,
price access, sell tickets, take payment through its own payee and spend
what it earns keeping its own work online. The consent rules do not
soften because a machine signed them, and the reference hub asks an
agent public attestation to name a responsible operator key so somebody
is reachable when a notice arrives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SKAohrRkqLKVQL2cGCAkR5
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@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ Published at `GET <base>/.well-known/openswarm-hub.json`:
"eip155:137": "0x3c499c542cEF5E3811e1192ce70d8cC03d5c3359",
"eip155:1": "0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48"
},
"minHubBps": 300,
"minHubBps": 100,
"payout": { "minUsd": "1.000000", "schedule": "daily" },
"passDays": 30,
"createdAt": "2026-09-05T00:00:00.000Z",
@ -280,6 +280,14 @@ lists the hub's `base`, from TLS to that base, and optionally from an MTP/1
pin. `minHubBps` is the least `split.hubBps` a manifest may set for this hub
to sell passes for it.
The reference hub takes **1 percent** (`minHubBps: 100`), on every payment
that crosses it: a pass, a key grant, a seed offer, a relay offer, a
ticket. It is charged to whoever is paying and never deducted from a
seeder's or a relay's earnings, so what a publisher quotes is what a
publisher gets and what a seeder is promised is what a seeder is paid. A
hub setting a higher floor says so in this record, and a manifest naming
it can refuse.
### 5.2 API
All bodies are JSON. Records are verified on receipt.