Introduction
Understand the platform, the authentication-first release and the limits of planned business APIs.
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Market Monolith is being organized around durable business outcomes: research you can revisit, catalog truth you can maintain, territories you can define, and work whose preparation, execution and proof remain distinguishable.
Start with one small result
The developer release contract begins with email and required policy acceptance, an eight-digit code, then a first key ready to copy. A new developer’s Personal account and Default application are prepared automatically; naming can wait. Returning developers reuse their authorized context without receiving a new key on every sign-in.
The first request identifies that credential’s account, application and permitted scope. It does not create a workspace or start work.
Read the quickstart, then choose an outcome guide. You do not need a merchant website or payment method to understand the platform or verify authentication once that release is available.
Read availability literally
“Release contract” describes the implementation target; deployment and acceptance are separate. “Planned API” means a business workflow cannot be called with these keys in this release. “Instructions published” means a guide exists, not that a client is connected.
Keep the right boundary
An application is calling software, not a person or a workspace. The account owns applications and data. Workspace grants, operator roles and spending authority require their own checks. A successful authentication check is deliberately narrower than any of them.