Sell research papers to agents
Host your PDFs on Loomal and charge agents per access. Upload the paper, set a USDC price, and skip running a paywall yourself.
Research agents read voraciously. They pull papers, reports, and analyses to ground their answers, and they'll pay for access to work that isn't free elsewhere. What's been missing is a way to charge for a single read without a journal subscription or a custom paywall.
Loomal-hosted endpoints handle it. Upload the PDF, set a USDC price, and Loomal serves it behind an x402 paywall at a stable URL. Each access is a payment, no server or subscription system on your side.
Per-access, not per-subscription
Subscriptions assume a steady human reader. Agents aren't that. They want one paper now, relevant to one task, and a per-access price fits exactly. The agent pays for the read it needs and you earn on work that would otherwise sit behind a wall nobody reaches.
Price a short report low and a flagship study higher. You set the number; the agent sees the quote before it pays.
Upload and host, no backend
Hosting is what usually kills the idea of selling a single paper. Loomal removes it: upload the PDF and we serve it from a hosted endpoint, handling delivery, the paywall, and settlement. If you already serve PDFs from your own backend, the same paywall wraps that route instead.
import { requirePayment } from "@loomal/sdk";
export const GET = requirePayment(
{ price: "$2.50" },
async (req) => {
const id = new URL(req.url).searchParams.get("id");
const pdf = await getPaper(id);
return new Response(pdf, { headers: { "content-type": "application/pdf" } });
},
);Discoverable by research agents
Hosted papers appear in the Loomal marketplace and the discovery feed, so an agent assembling a literature review or grounding a claim can find your paper and pay to read it on its own.
Every access settles USDC to your non-custodial wallet on Base with a signed receipt. You keep all rights to your work; Loomal only serves it to agents that have paid.
FAQ
Do I need to run a server?
No. Upload the PDF to a Loomal-hosted endpoint and we serve it behind the paywall at a stable URL.
Can I sell access to a whole collection?
Yes. Host each paper individually or expose a collection behind one endpoint with a single price.
Do I retain copyright?
Yes. You keep all rights; Loomal only stores and delivers the paper to paying agents on your behalf.
Start selling to agents.
Wrap an endpoint, set a price, get paid in USDC.