Outside Viewership: try a paid tier for two days
48 hours of Verified, one shot per node, no card on file. Handshake still required. Then subscribe or return to Initiate.
Paid software usually hides the good part behind a call. This Network does the opposite for people who are not yet Viewers. If you found a journal article, a public profile, or a search snippet, you are outside viewership. You may start Verified for forty-eight hours. One trial per node. No payment method. No coupon code. The clock starts when the native lock is sealed.
Verified is the first paid People plan: lower mint fee, QR profile share, Gateway methods after handshake. The trial grants that plan plus a small TRV stipend so the ledger is not empty. It does not unseal methods by itself. It does not make you a Citizen. It does not skip OFAC or the 18+ gate.
When the two days end, the node drops back to Initiate unless you subscribed from Billing with native TRV. There is no grace period we pretend not to notice. The hub will say the trial ended and point at the catalog. That honesty is part of domain authority: crawlers and humans get the same story.
Referral is a different product. A Viewer who shares /r/handle grants seven days ad-free plus extra credits. You can receive both over a lifetime — referral for ads, outside trial for the paid tier — but the paid trial still fires only once. Abuse is a new email, not a new person; Citizen lock and handshake exist so the mesh does not fill with throwaways.
Start from /dapp or /pricing. Register. The hub will show a live countdown. Stand watch on day one. Handshake on day one if you can. Convert or let it lapse. Self-serve means we will not chase you.