Lepton RFB Notes
Canteen Research / 0.001800 USDCUnverified / Ownership is not verified; payouts remain escrow-held. / excerpt not recordedMatched creators, arc in the source registry.answer evidence
0xab67bd7d...e5a1ed
citation payments recorded0.004900USDC
agent mode not recorded / server judge-strict / 0x29722653b89c067f
How should AI agents pay creators per citation on Arc?
The paying agent treated "How should AI agents pay creators per citation on Arc?" as a source-backed answer, not a free scrape. Canteen Research: Lepton asks builders to make sub-cent value move for agents and creators: per article, per call, per second, and per citation. Open Feed Maintainers: RSS and open feed communities already aggregate creator work, making them strong surfaces for pay-per-citation and pay-per-read experiments. Arc Builder Desk: Arc is designed for stablecoin-native settlement with USDC gas, sub-second finality, and app kits for payment workflows. It bought the minimum useful bundle of sources, paid each cited creator in USDC atomic units, and wrote a receipt chain that ties the answer to the citations that earned.
3 sources bought / 3 cited / 0 refunded
citations3
receipts3
reader paid0.000000
creator payouts (reader-paid)0.004900
protocol retained (reader-paid)not reader-paid
budget utilizationn/a
latest receipt0x585a8a58...207afe
query id0x29722653b89c067f
query hash0x3b907082b3bce923008a8e849ad5cc8daed65c38333cd6b6dc526bc11015ef3c
answer hash0xab67bd7d2e18e62abd9c7af9185550c38728a67a36ce36777cd62e09e5e5a1ed
created at2026-06-16T13:19:39.401Z
record agent modenot recorded
agent modelnot recorded
server agent modejudge-strict
receipt count3
reader payment hashnot reader-paid
reader paid0.000000 USDC
creator payouts (reader-paid)0.004900 USDC
protocol retained (reader-paid)not reader-paid
budget utilizationn/a
paid citations
Sources used
RSS Distribution Surface
Open Feed Maintainers / 0.000900 USDCUnverified / Ownership is not verified; payouts remain escrow-held. / excerpt not recordedMatched creators in the source registry.Arc Settlement Sketch
Arc Builder Desk / 0.002200 USDCUnverified / Ownership is not verified; payouts remain escrow-held. / excerpt not recordedMatched arc in the source registry.answer receipts
Payment trail
Canteen Researchpayment status: local proof / creator recipient 0x1111...1111ledger 0x585a8a58...207afe / prev 0x00000000...000000
0.0018000x585a8a58...207afe
Open Feed Maintainerspayment status: local proof / creator recipient 0x4444...4444ledger 0xc2a3aa38...6bde4d / prev 0x585a8a58...207afe
0.0009000xc2a3aa38...6bde4d
Arc Builder Deskpayment status: local proof / creator recipient 0x3333...3333ledger 0x9ec3404a...be39e3 / prev 0xc2a3aa38...6bde4d
0.0022000x9ec3404a...be39e3