Citation settlement operations
Kleos Answer Settlement Network
Settlement workflow
Run settlement scenario
01
Inspect
Buyer agent ranks paid sources by relevance, trust, toll, reputation, and budget fit.
02
Buy
Read tolls unlock full content and create x402-style settlement plus split payouts.
03
Cite
Only cited sources get second-stage citation tolls and answer-linked receipts.
04
Reprice
Seller agent reprices from citation rate, confidence, paid reads, and skipped demand.
05
Reward
Sponsor pool pays extra only to cited sources that proved impact in the final answer.
Live proof
Gateway status
Gateway balance
0.5 testnet USDC
Live x402 receipt
0b795e06-3f01-4eff-b4f2-7fa9240781b1
Agent wallet
0x3a074d1050340eea8022df3359bc517431303e58
Testnet USDC moved
$0.0054
Answer settlements
1
Paid source reads
2
Creators onboarded
4
Buyer agent runs
1
Impact pool
$0.0051
Operational evidence
System coverage
Live
Live Gateway verification, Circle CLI payment proof, answer-linked citation settlement, claim-level answer proofs, receipt verification, adversarial citation challenges, signed creator webhooks, creator cash-outs, source onboarding, RSS/Ghost import, publisher ownership verification, publisher kit, retroactive impact pool, and bonded A2A proof are implemented.
Primary lane
RFB 6 creator monetization
Supporting lanes
RFB 1, RFB 3, RFB 5
System map
What Kleos proves
Autonomous buyer and seller agents
Product surface
Buyer agent ranks sources by relevance, trust, price, budget remaining, and reputation discount, then separately finalizes which purchased sources deserve citation tolls; seller agent reprices from paid reads, skipped reads, citation rate, citation confidence, uncited purchases, and impact-pool outcomes; answer proofs expose claim-level covered, partial, and unsupported traces; verifier and challenge agents can audit receipts and release or risk the citation broker bond; CI checks economic invariants across budgets, splits, receipts, registry, vault, and A2A gates.
Next proof point: Keep collecting end-to-end agent runs and show read-to-citation conversion by task.
Public validation
Product surface
The app tracks paid reads, answer settlements, citation receipts, citation tolls, buyer-agent runs, USDC moved, creators paid, source catalog size, registered/RSS-imported sources, verified publishers, impact-pool grants, signed creator webhooks, creator cash-outs, receipt verifications, citation challenges, A2A proof events, and payout splits in the live ledger.
Next proof point: Public tester attestations are tracked through GitHub issues with role labels and proof hashes.
Circle / Arc payment rails
Product surface
Arc Testnet wallet is funded through Gateway; Charon returns x402 v2-style 402 challenges, base64 PAYMENT-REQUIRED headers, GatewayWalletBatched metadata, live BatchFacilitatorClient verification, read/citation toll payment records, and a successful Circle CLI paid request.
Next proof point: Show the existing stable-deployment Circle CLI receipt and Arcscan link in the demo.
Answer settlement design
Product surface
Combines two-stage creator citation tolls, answer-linked receipt hashes, claim-level proof traces, independent receipt verification, adversarial citation challenges, signed creator webhooks, creator cash-out aggregation, publisher ownership verification, dynamic value-of-information pricing, autonomous buyer budgets, collaborator royalties, MCP discovery, publisher manifests, retroactive impact rewards, no-wallet sponsored trials, public ops proof, treasury proof, OpenAPI discoverability, creator-scoped source registry, encrypted content vault, x402-priced A2A research, and a bonded ERC-8004-ready citation broker.
Next proof point: Use the demo to show emergent price movement after demand changes instead of presenting static paywall pricing.
Creator intake
Register paid source
Evidence layer
Citation and A2A proof
Citation receipts
Circle Gateway Nanopayments: why sub-cent agent payments work
$0.0014Gateway batching makes sub-cent agent citation payments economically viable.
Kleos-curated memo: Circle Gateway is the economic reason an agent can pay a fraction of a cent for creator content.
answer 0x000000...7976ef - receipt 0x000000...f51878
read pay_seed...ateway - cite pay_seed...ateway - 94% confidence
Agent-to-agent proof
Shadow Float V2 sponsored spend intent
signed boundKleos signer authorized a bounded 0.01 USDC provider spend; Shadow Float bound it onchain with repayment pending until after review.
Amount
$0.010
Digest
0x385da6...ca452b
Buyer agent
Research run
Latest answer
Agent conclusion
Kleos settles grounded AI answers by charging buyer agents to inspect creator sources, charging citation tolls only when those sources appear in the final answer, splitting each toll to collaborators, and repricing future access from answer impact.
Budget
$0.018
Spent
$0.0054
Answer settlement
Read tolls vs citation tolls
Read tolls paid
$0.0040
Citation tolls paid
$0.0014
Cited sources
1
Bought not cited
1
Bonded broker
Capital-at-risk citation proof
Evaluator bond is released; answer 0x000000...7976ef cited 1 source and left 1 purchased source uncited.
Broker bond
$0.0025
Receipt hash
0x000000...56f3a4
Impact pool
Retroactive source rewards
Sponsor capital is allocated after citation receipts prove which sources actually supported the answer, creating a second creator reward beyond the read and citation tolls.
Impact pool settled
$0.0051
Sources rewarded
1
Catalog
Priced sources
Seller agent
Price movement
Circle Gateway Nanopayments: why sub-cent agent payments work
$0.0040RSSHub: the machine-readable chokepoint for creator feeds
$0.0032x402: the HTTP negotiation layer for Charon tolls
$0.0060Arc Nanopayments reference app: buyer agent plus seller endpoints
$0.0055ERC-8004: reputation hooks for agent-to-agent markets
$0.0070Canteen distribution bootstrap: start where audiences already are
$0.0028ARC CLI: project tracking and Arc builder context
$0.0036Buyer decisions
Paid vs skipped
| Decision | Source | Toll | Relevance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Awaiting the next buyer-agent run. | |||
Payment ledger
x402 settlements
Gateway
Arc proof
Gateway balance
0.5 testnet USDC
Live paid request
$0.0040 GatewayWalletBatched
Agent wallet
0x3a074d1050340eea8022df3359bc517431303e58
Live x402 payer
0x44557bc24c1c475b7b251c3fa8efae7527d96bf7
Royalty graph
Collaborator payouts
Pricing events
Seller-agent log
x402: the HTTP negotiation layer for Charon tolls
$0.0050 -> $0.0060 - Seeded demand signal: pricing-agent article converted during setup.
MCP catalog
Agent interface
list_paid_sources
Enumerate priced source previews
quote_source
Return current x402 toll and split graph
buy_source
Unlock a source through payment proof
finalize_answer_citations
Settle citation tolls for cited paid sources
list_citation_receipts
Inspect answer hashes and support spans
settle_impact_pool
Allocate sponsor rewards to proven cited sources
get_publisher_kit
Return RSS/Ghost publisher integration manifest
summarize_purchases
Explain paid and skipped choices