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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.