publishers
Citations
AI answer agents pay writers and research sources per cited answer.
Open the workbenchAI citation payments on Arc
Tollgate
Writers, publishers, and researchers register priced work. When an answer agent cites it, the creator gets paid in USDC and the receipt becomes public proof.
citation payments made557
creators paid 15payments recorded $0.9041latest hash 0x9594e7d5...7a7297
90-second proof path
Verified judge demonstration
One sponsored request runs the fixed question through strict model planning, source selection, claim verification, settlement, refunds, and signed use-intent anchoring. Failed stages remain failed and keep any evidence already returned.
sponsor-funded judge activity — excluded from traction
No wallet or login is required. The API will expose the exact stage reached.
how it works
Three steps from registered work to provable payout
Register priced work
Add an article, feed post, or reference page with a per-citation price and payout wallet.
The agent buys citations
The answer workbench appraises registered sources, spends a small budget, and grounds the answer in paid material.
Receipts prove payment
Each payout links the answer, source, wallet, amount, and ledger hash into a public evidence trail.
live traction
Creator earnings are visible before the pitch deck
Headline traction uses independently classified reader activity. Total payment volume remains visible below it, with fixture and sponsored activity kept out of the independent number.
answers200
receipts557
independent reader paid$0.094
total reader volume$0.457
priced sources32
verified external creators
3/3 live sourcesmedia
Aperture
The same settlement core pays photographers for licensed downloads.
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PeerTube
A self-hosted video plugin gates downloads and exposes proof endpoints for Arc USDC routing.
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Per-citation payments, live agent spend, and public proof together
Per-citation granularity
Tollgate pays the specific source an answer cites, not a broad subscription pool or crawler access fee.
Live autonomous agent
The answer agent appraises sources, spends a bounded budget, and writes receipts during the inference flow.
Public on-chain proof
Receipts, FeeRouter balances, and claimable USDC are visible to a judge instead of reconciled later off-chain.
proof surface
Every claim links to receipts, hashes, and creator pages
creator earnings
Who got paid
Verified
$0.176346131 citations
Creator-claimed
$0.163368 citations
Verified
$0.05179137 citations
Verified
$0.05134 citations
External
$0.01539 citations
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