LeptonWeb Build LogLeptonWeb Lab / score 30 / 0.001700 USDC
Bought: relevance score 30 cleared the budget policy.answer evidence
0x6754a317...ee529a
paid to cited sources0.004700USDC
0x5b01b925de62232c
How does Tollgate settle reader payments and creator citation receipts on Arc?
The paying agent treated "How does Tollgate settle reader payments and creator citation receipts on Arc?" as a source-backed answer, not a free scrape. LeptonWeb Lab: A builder log for Tollgate, showing paid citations, receipt hashes, x402 source access, and creator onboarding on Arc. Canteen Research: Lepton asks builders to make sub-cent value move for agents and creators: per article, per call, per second, and per citation. Indie Researcher: A source payment should be tiny, automatic, visible to the creator, and tied to the answer that reused the work. 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.
citations3
receipts3
reader paid0.001000
agent spent0.004700
latest receipt0xefb8f15c...070f6e
query id0x5b01b925de62232c
query hash0xbf2f34034669a0142540cc79a0b161730c40328957cd4da2c4109c26222db639
answer hash0x6754a317e040f520d7fb43e643971e860b37db2e9fb6b0c68b38275c4cee529a
created at2026-06-21T15:15:49.284Z
receipt count3
reader payment hash0x835c5ae04f829df85a6833dd47165bb8768ce1bef428639a6abdfb8ecb4abf77
reader paymentx402 settled
amount0.001000 USDC
payer0x12F2...ba03
payment hash0x835c5ae0...4abf77
source market
Budgeted citation decision
source budget0.006500
agent spent0.004700
remaining0.001800
market sweep3/7
Lepton RFB NotesCanteen Research / score 15 / 0.001800 USDC
Bought: relevance score 15 cleared the budget policy.Citation Economics for AI AnswersIndie Researcher / score 11 / 0.001200 USDC
Bought: relevance score 11 cleared the budget policy.Arc Settlement SketchArc Builder Desk / score 10 / 0.002200 USDC
Skipped: 2200 atomic USDC exceeded the remaining source budget.Covenant Account Spend ControlsForum Protocol / score 8 / 0.001500 USDC
Skipped: lower value than the purchased source bundle.RSS Distribution SurfaceOpen Feed Maintainers / score 6 / 0.000900 USDC
Skipped: lower value than the purchased source bundle.Gateway Nanopayments PrimerCircle Developer Notes / score 5 / 0.002400 USDC
Skipped: 2400 atomic USDC exceeded the remaining source budget.paid citations
Sources used
LeptonWeb Build Log
LeptonWeb Lab / 0.001700 USDCMatched tollgate, receipts, arc in the source registry.Lepton RFB Notes
Canteen Research / 0.001800 USDCMatched arc in the source registry.Citation Economics for AI Answers
Indie Researcher / 0.001200 USDCSelected by semantic overlap with the question and payment policy.answer receipts
Payment trail
LeptonWeb Lablocal proof / 2026-06-21T15:15:49.284Z
0.0017000xefb8f15c...070f6e
Canteen Researchlocal proof / 2026-06-21T15:15:49.284Z
0.0018000x1633d162...00e892
Indie Researcherlocal proof / 2026-06-21T15:15:49.284Z
0.0012000xcf023967...1a7ea5