Arc Settlement Sketch
Arc Builder Desk / 0.002200 USDCreceipt evidence
0x9ec3404a...be39e3
paid to creator0.002200USDC
local proof
Arc Builder Desk
This receipt binds a source payment to the answer that used it. The previous hash links it into the append-only attribution ledger.
receipt hash0x9ec3404a06db8505153b454b59a5bcf26dd35ec262996db45b45319732be39e3
previous hash0xc2a3aa389433cca237b22bebfacd55e8dbd40abcf310650fb726d42d176bde4d
query id0x29722653b89c067f
source idarc-finality-usdc
creator wallet0x3333...3333
created at2026-06-16T13:19:39.401Z
payment resource/api/sources/arc-finality-usdc
query payment hashnot reader-paid
payerlocal proof
transactionpending settlement
FeeRouter splitnot FeeRouter-routed
FeeRouter createSplitnot FeeRouter-routed
FeeRouter paynot FeeRouter-routed
answer context
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.
Open answer evidenceMatched arc in the source registry.