Capacity Credits
Capacity Credits are how you pay for usage of the Lit network. They allow you to reserve a specific amount of capacity (i.e. requests a second) on the network over a pre-defined amount of time (e.g. one week). In order to make requests to the Lit network for things like: signing using a PKP, decrypting data, and executing a Lit Action. You'll need to provide the token ID of an active Capacity Credit along with your request.
For an overview of what requests to the Lit network require payment, go here.
Capacity credits are NFT tokens on the Chronicle Yellowstone rollup blockchain, and can be minted by making a transaction directly to the NFT contract, or by using the Lit Explorer. You can learn more about minting Capacity Credits via a specific method by going to these pages:
After minting a Capacity Credit, you'll want to learn how to delegate usage of it to either your users, or yourself via a Capacity Delegation Auth Sig.