Verification should be clear, proportional, and accountable.
Cashcha is an early-stage verification and micropayment platform. It gives authenticated people a disclosed, pay-per-use alternative to repetitive CAPTCHA and advertising gates while sharing revenue with participating websites.
The problem
Human verification often creates work for legitimate users.
Challenges are necessary in many contexts, but repeated puzzles and advertising gates impose friction without giving people a meaningful alternative. Cashcha explores a model where an authenticated account, sufficient balance, and an explicit price can satisfy the participating website instead.
The exchange
Every bypass has a visible cost and a recorded outcome.
The website sets a minimum, the user sets a daily limit, and Cashcha checks both before processing a bypass. The website receives 85% of a completed micropayment; Cashcha retains 15% as the platform share.
The foundation
Security and accounting are product requirements, not decoration.
The MVP uses protected browser sessions, Bearer authentication for API clients, application-level CSRF controls, global session invalidation, and integer micro-dollar accounting. It runs on Cloudflare Workers with D1, KV, Static Assets, the adapter-provisioned Images binding, and encrypted runtime secrets.