Premium posts on Plumaden are unlocked by paying from your own Algorand wallet — there's no card on file and no account balance to top up. You send a normal crypto payment, we spot it on-chain, and the full post opens. You keep custody of your funds the whole time.
You don't even need an account
You can unlock a post as a guest — your access is remembered in that browser. Or create an account and your unlocks are tied to you, so they follow you across devices and don't depend on a browser session. Either way, the payment itself is identical.
How paying works
- Open a premium post and go to its unlock page. You'll see a payment QR code and one-tap buttons for Pera and Defly.
- Scan the code, or tap a wallet button to open your wallet with the payment pre-filled. Confirm and send it — and make sure the memo/note stays attached, since that's how we match your payment to the post.
- Plumaden detects the on-chain payment automatically — usually within a few seconds — and unlocks the post. There's nothing to "connect": you're never asked to link your wallet or share your recovery phrase.
What you'll need
An Algorand wallet with a little funding. New to crypto? The buy-ALGO & fund-your-wallet guide takes you from zero to a funded wallet and covers the first-purchase gotchas (the small ALGO reserve and network fee).
You can pay in any of these currencies:
- ALGO — Algorand
- USDC — USD Coin RECOMMENDED
USDC is the easiest choice for most buyers: it's pegged to the US dollar, so the price you see is the price you pay, with no crypto price swings. The platform fee (10.0%) is already baked into the price and comes out of the creator's side — it's never added on top of yours.
What you get
As soon as the payment is detected, the full post opens — no waiting on the creator or on settlement. If you paid signed in, it stays unlocked on your account permanently; as a guest, it stays unlocked in the browser you used.
If a payment seems stuck
Payments almost always go through in seconds. If yours is taking longer, the stuck-payments helper walks through what to check and how to get help. Questions about anything else? Reach us at support@plumaden.io.