You have content people want — a course, a private API, a dashboard, a media library. The standard approach: build an auth system, manage user accounts, handle password resets, fight credential sharing. With Ghost Networks and BiFrost Pass, you skip all of that. Access is controlled at the network level, not the application level.
The Auth Tax
Every paid content platform starts the same way: force users to create an account just to see what they paid for. That decision has a cost.
How It Works
Host Your Content on a Ghost Network
Put your paid content — website, API, video server, anything — on a server inside a Ghost Network. The server has no public IP. It only exists on your private network. No one can reach it from the internet.
Generate a BiFrost Pass Per Purchase
When someone pays, your backend creates a BiFrost Pass scoped to that content hub. One device. 30-day expiration. That pass is the product.
Deliver Access Instantly
After payment, show the buyer a QR code. They scan it with the Ghost Networks app and they're connected. No signup. No email. No password.
Access Expires Automatically
When the pass expires, the buyer's device is removed from the network. The content server becomes unreachable again. No revocation logic needed — it's built into the pass itself.
Why Link Sharing Doesn't Work
Traditional paywalls protect content with a URL and a session cookie. If you share the URL (or the cookie), you share the content. BiFrost Pass protects content at the network layer — the URL itself is unreachable without an active pass on the device.
Traditional Paywall
Ghost + BiFrost
What You Can Sell
Online courses
Host video lessons on a private server. Each student gets a 90-day pass. No login page needed.
Private APIs
Sell API access without managing API keys. The network is the authentication.
Premium dashboards
Analytics, trading signals, research data — accessible only to paying subscribers.
Media libraries
Music, video, design assets — stream from a private server with device-locked access.