0xb4b40339...c8337c

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.