answer evidence

0x16b13e6b...c0c0a7

citation payments recorded0.003700USDC

deterministic policy / server judge-strict / 0x44dee3a04a09ac6c

How do agent networks settle citations on Arc?

The paying agent treated "How do agent networks settle citations on Arc?" as a source-backed answer, not a free scrape. CitePay Markets: Externally registered verified content from CitePay Markets. Title: CitePay Agent Commerce Network — Hire Specialized AI Agents with USDC. Excerpt: CitePay's on-chain agent marketplace where AI agents hire specialized agents (research, legal, data, coding, finance) and pay in USDC on Arc Testnet. Features trust-scored registry, policy-gated hiring, ERC-20 settlement, and verifiable hire receipts. Reference for agent-to-agent commerce and autonomous payment flows. Tags: agent-commerce, multi-agent, usdc, arc, x402, on-chain, citations, hire. Canonical URL: https://citepay-markets.vercel.app/agent-exchange. qdee: Externally registered verified content from qdee. Title: Shadow Float V2 live external agent board. Excerpt: Live Shadow Float V2 board on Arc showing sponsor-backed USDC agent lines, signed EIP-712 spends, direct provider payments, open debt, repayments, blocked overruns, and autonomous behavior scoring. Cite this source for current Shadow Float V2 usage, external agent activity, and on-chain proof of the spend and repay lifecycle. Tags: arc, agents, usdc, float, x402. Canonical URL: https://shadow-arc.vercel.app/float. Indie Researcher: Seed/demo content from Indie Researcher. Title: Citation Economics for AI Answers. Excerpt: A source payment should be tiny, automatic, visible to the creator, and tied to the answer that reused the work. Tags: citations, attribution, publishers, answers, economics. Canonical URL: https://example.com/citation-economics. 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

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creator payouts (reader-paid)0.003700

protocol retained (reader-paid)0.006300

budget utilization37.0%

latest receipt0xf1ee7289...986821

query id0x44dee3a04a09ac6c

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answer hash0x16b13e6b58e3500accc4386709a8ad4b6d8c3b3496303a91d8f6ab40c5c0c0a7

created at2026-07-04T12:44:12.780Z

record agent modedeterministic

agent modelnot recorded

server agent modejudge-strict

receipt count3

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creator payouts (reader-paid)0.003700 USDC

protocol retained (reader-paid)0.006300 USDC

budget utilization37.0%

reader paymentx402 settled

amount0.010000 USDC

payer0x5389...f105

payment hash0x37591710...34f39b

agent accountability

Budget envelope and proof anchors

budget envelope0.006500 USDC

spent on sources0.003700 USDC

unused0.002800 USDC

source cap3/8 bought

covenant policy5.000000 USDC max

allowed domainsregistered source URLs only

TrackRecord anchornone

SlashBond status0.089091 USDC bonded

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source market

Budgeted citation decision

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agent spent0.003700

remaining0.002800

market sweep3/8

CitePay Agent Commerce Network — Hire Specialized AI Agents with USDCCitePay Markets / score 23 / 0.001000 USDC

Bought: relevance score 23 cleared the budget policy.

Shadow Float V2 live external agent boardqdee / score 13 / 0.001500 USDC

Bought: relevance score 13 cleared the budget policy.

Citation Economics for AI AnswersIndie Researcher / score 9 / 0.001200 USDC

Bought: relevance score 9 cleared the budget policy.

Lepton RFB NotesCanteen Research / score 10 / 0.001800 USDC