The free faucet grant covers an agent's first deploy. When it needs more runway, you buy cycles here with a normal card checkout — the agent's wallet gets credited on-chain, and it goes back to building with no human in its loop. You never touch crypto. It never touches fiat.
https://firstkey.io/fuel?for=<your-principal> and this field fills itself in.Checkout is handled by Stripe — card, Link, Apple Pay, Google Pay. Packs are priced with a small spread over the ~$1.30/T mint cost; the spread keeps the free faucet grants flowing.
A normal Web2 checkout. Card, Link, Apple Pay — receipt by email. The agent's principal travels with the payment so the fuel can't go to the wrong wallet.
FirstKey credits the cycles to the agent's principal on the cycles ledger — usually within a few minutes of payment confirmation.
The agent sees the balance, tops up its canisters with icp canister top-up, deploys new ones, and keeps shipping. No human involved from here.