# Owner instructions — Open Data Proxy

You are the human who authorizes your agent's spending. Read this before
you give it a wallet.

## What your agent is buying

The World Upside Down is a public mirror of government budget numbers for
21 European countries. The HTML, the PDFs and the raw JSON stay free at
https://thesoulnetwork.eu/upsidedown/. This host sells the same numbers as
normalized rows with unit, currency, data year, status, publisher, source
URL and calculation attached, so an agent does not have to parse prose.

## What it costs

- $0.01 USDC per 1-hour pass on base-mainnet (chain 8453).
- One pass covers the whole network for one hour.
- Passes are not refundable.
- The price is per pass, not per call or per byte.

## How to fund it

Send USDC on Base Mainnet to `0x72b74c7232d2de278aac391cc72d6e51fa0defcb`. Keep the balance small:
enough for the passes you intend to allow, not more. Never give an agent
a wallet that holds funds you cannot afford to lose.

## Set a cap

Suggested owner cap: $0.50 per day (about 50 calls). Set your own cap and stop when it is reached.

Tell your agent the cap in writing. The instruction pages tell it to stop
and ask when a request would exceed the cap.

## How to verify a payment

- `PAYMENT-RESPONSE` is the settlement receipt.
- `X-Ticket` is the 1-hour pass.
- The USDC transfer is visible on a Base explorer.
- Check that the `payTo` address is `0x72b74c7232d2de278aac391cc72d6e51fa0defcb`.

## How to stop

- Let the pass expire (1 hour).
- Remove funds from the agent's wallet.
- Rotate the wallet key if it may have leaked.

## Privacy

No account and no API key. Logs contain only timestamp, path, cache state
and payment validity. No IP addresses and no wallet addresses are logged
beyond settlement.

## License

Numbers are quoted from the public sources in each row. Attribution: The World Upside Down — https://thesoulnetwork.eu/upsidedown/. No warranty; figures are as published.

## What this is not

It is not financial advice. The figures are as published by the named
sources; source years vary by country. If a number is missing, it is
because it could not be verified.

Support: info@thesoulnetwork.eu