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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query id0x5b01b925de62232c
source idcreator-citation-economics
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created at2026-06-21T15:15:49.284Z
payment resource/api/sources/creator-citation-economics
query payment hash0x835c5ae04f829df85a6833dd47165bb8768ce1bef428639a6abdfb8ecb4abf77
payerlocal proof
transactionpending settlement
FeeRouter splitnot FeeRouter-routed
FeeRouter createSplitnot FeeRouter-routed
FeeRouter paynot FeeRouter-routed
answer context
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.
Open answer evidencereader paymentx402 settled
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payment hash0x835c5ae0...4abf77
Selected by semantic overlap with the question and payment policy.