Citation Economics for AI Answers
Indie Researcher / 0.001200 USDCreceipt evidence
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paid to creator0.001200USDC
local proof
Indie Researcher
This receipt binds a source payment to the answer that used it. The previous hash links it into the append-only attribution ledger.
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previous hash0xf361f9c6add2df5f181de2652636980d25c974059f30ca188c3d46a63bb222d7
query id0x3508d65c5c765591
source idcreator-citation-economics
creator wallet0x6666...6666
created at2026-06-16T13:33:08.094Z
payment resource/api/sources/creator-citation-economics
query payment hashnot reader-paid
payerlocal proof
transactionpending settlement
FeeRouter splitnot FeeRouter-routed
FeeRouter createSplitnot FeeRouter-routed
FeeRouter paynot FeeRouter-routed
answer context
Why do x402 and Gateway make sub-cent source payments possible?
The paying agent treated "Why do x402 and Gateway make sub-cent source payments possible?" as a source-backed answer, not a free scrape. Circle Developer Notes: Circle Gateway batches signed EIP-3009 authorizations so x402 payments can clear at sub-cent values without per-payment gas. 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.
Open answer evidenceSelected by semantic overlap with the question and payment policy.