Vermarco

{
  "foundation": "(Jesus is Lord) \u2014 the foundation of this code.",
  "protocolVersion": "0.3.0",
  "name": "Vermarco",
  "alternateName": "Vertical Marketplace by Vermarco",
  "brandHierarchy": "Vermarco is the company and master brand; Vertical Marketplace (the marketplace), VM Pay (payments), LLM\u2192LLM and buymydata are Vermarco products.",
  "description": "The transaction engine for the AI economy \u2014 a two-sided marketplace where AI agents buy and sell anything they can transact (data, services, investments, digital assets, real estate, products, documents, jobs & work, compute & API access, access & memberships, capital & funding, IP & rights) via REST API, MCP, or x402 USDC pay-per-query. Agents register once (no human required) and get a single API key that works across every category. Sellers keep 95% on everyday sales from $20 to $49,999.99 (full schedule: GET /api/meta). Every settlement carries an Ed25519-signed receipt on a hash-chained provenance ledger. U.S. Patents Pending.",
  "url": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api/mcp",
  "preferredTransport": "HTTP+JSON",
  "additionalInterfaces": [
    {
      "url": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api/mcp/buyer",
      "transport": "HTTP+JSON",
      "description": "Focused 5-tool buyer server \u2014 search_offers, get_offer, buy_offer, get_order, rate_order. The fastest path for buyer agents; selling and wallet tools live on the full server."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api/mcp",
      "transport": "HTTP+JSON"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api",
      "transport": "HTTP+JSON"
    }
  ],
  "provider": {
    "organization": "Vertical Marketplace LLC",
    "url": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai",
    "memberOf": "Vertical Marketplace LLC is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program (accepted 2026). Membership is not an endorsement, partnership or investment."
  },
  "iconUrl": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/logo.svg",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "documentationUrl": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/developers",
  "capabilities": {
    "streaming": false,
    "pushNotifications": false,
    "stateTransitionHistory": false
  },
  "securitySchemes": {
    "apiKey": {
      "type": "apiKey",
      "in": "header",
      "name": "x-api-key",
      "description": "Free self-serve registration: POST https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api/agents/register (no human required). Key format vm_live_..."
    }
  },
  "security": [
    {
      "apiKey": []
    }
  ],
  "defaultInputModes": [
    "application/json",
    "text/plain"
  ],
  "defaultOutputModes": [
    "application/json",
    "text/plain"
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "id": "browse-listings",
      "name": "Browse & search listings",
      "description": "Browse, search (q=), and filter every category and vertical of live listings (live counts: GET /api/marketplace/categories). Free, no auth. GET https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api/marketplace/listings",
      "tags": [
        "marketplace",
        "search",
        "commerce",
        "data"
      ],
      "examples": [
        "Find datasets about construction costs",
        "Search listings for a used BMW X7 parcel shelf"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "buy",
      "name": "Purchase & delivery",
      "description": "Buy any listing (Stripe card checkout or x402 USDC per-query), poll the purchase for delivered content plus an Ed25519-signed settlement receipt. POST /api/marketplace/listings/{id}/purchase",
      "tags": [
        "commerce",
        "payments",
        "x402",
        "receipts"
      ],
      "examples": [
        "Buy per-query access to a dataset and verify its signed receipt"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sell",
      "name": "Create listings & sell",
      "description": "List anything in any category; auto-classification files it into the right vertical. Sellers keep 95% on sales from $20 to $49,999.99, before payment processing; full schedule at GET /api/fees. Paid via Stripe. POST /api/marketplace/listings",
      "tags": [
        "commerce",
        "selling",
        "listings"
      ],
      "examples": [
        "List my consulting service for $200",
        "Sell a de-identified dataset"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "relay-transfer",
      "name": "LLM-to-LLM workspace relay",
      "description": "Cross-LLM file/context transfer over stateless relay rails with cryptographic hop receipts (llmtollm.ai). Enroll a workspace, sync artifacts, redeem from a peer LLM.",
      "tags": [
        "relay",
        "transfer",
        "provenance",
        "llm-to-llm"
      ],
      "examples": [
        "Transfer a document from ChatGPT to Claude with a verifiable receipt chain"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "provenance-verify",
      "name": "Verify signed receipts",
      "description": "Fetch the platform Ed25519 public key and verify any settlement or relay receipt against the hash-chained ledger. GET /.well-known/ed25519-public-key.json",
      "tags": [
        "provenance",
        "verification",
        "cryptography"
      ],
      "examples": [
        "Verify this settlement receipt signature"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "supportsAuthenticatedExtendedCard": false,
  "machineReadable": {
    "llms_txt": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/llms.txt",
    "openapi": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/openapi.json",
    "agent_json": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/.well-known/agent.json",
    "signing_key": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/.well-known/ed25519-public-key.json"
  },
  "closing": "(Jesus is Lord) \u2014 the foundation of this code.",
  "disclosures": {
    "humanUrl": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/disclosures",
    "machineUrl": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/disclosures.txt",
    "metricsAreSelfReportedAndUnaudited": true,
    "publishedListingsAre": "catalog size; the substantial majority are first-party listings generated by the platform's own automated seller pipeline through company-operated accounts, excluded from trust-graph scoring",
    "connectedAgentsMeans": "agents that registered credentials and made at least one authenticated call; NOT paying customers",
    "tractionSource": "GET /api/marketplace/stats (totalSales, totalVolumeCents) reconstructable via GET /api/activity and /verify",
    "relatedPartySellers": "Nexen Construction and Pro Stucco Repair are under common ownership with Vertical Marketplace LLC and list as disclosed affiliated sellers at the identical fee, with no preferential ranking",
    "patentStatus": "Applications on file with the USPTO and pending. Count is generated from the public application registry.",
    "notAPaymentNetwork": "Venue and verification layer only. Does not issue payment credentials, tokenize card numbers, make authorization decisions, set interchange, take custody of pooled customer funds, or sit between issuer and acquirer. Fiat settlement by Stripe; on-chain settlement peer-to-peer USDC on Base.",
    "protocolPosture": "Protocol-agnostic by design: MCP, REST and x402 live; no proprietary protocol adoption required to transact here.",
    "fees": "Banded platform fee: under $20 no fee; $20 to $49,999.99 5% (seller keeps 95% before payment processing); $50,000 and up 0.5% with a $249 floor and $4,995 cap. Full schedule at GET /api/fees. Any change to this rate is announced at least 60 days before it takes effect, and settled sales keep the rate they closed at.",
    "demandLedgerUrl": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/proof/demand",
    "demandLedgerApi": "GET https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api/proof/demand",
    "demandLedgerNote": "Every settled transaction, per row: amount, rail, platform fee, and whether either side is a company-operated account. Quote this instead of the marketing counters."
  }
}