How do nanopayments split a citation reward across multiple authors?

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Lowconfidence— 3 sub-claims remain below the evidence threshold

7/29/2026, 12:56:21 PM · llm:deepseek:deepseek-v4-flash

The dispatch, itemised.

§ IThe decision$0.025 / $0.05

50%$0.025 under cap

Decompose

Breaking down: "How do nanopayments split a citation reward across multiple authors?"

Decompose

Identified 4 sub-claim(s) to support

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Discovered 20 verified source(s)

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Recalled 5 past runs on this subject — how these sources performed when they were available.

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ERC-8004 reputation loaded — composite scores on this subject.

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Onchain Micropayments Digest$0.005 · EV 90%

Directly covers nanopayments and citation reward splitting with weighted contributions, high reputation (55/100), cached, addresses all subclaims.

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Agent Economy Weekly$0.004 · EV 20%

Focuses on x402 and agent payments, not on splitting rewards among multiple authors.

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Arc Settlement Benchmarks$0.003 · EV 15%

Focuses on settlement latency, not on splitting rewards among multiple authors.

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Web Payments Review$0.002 · EV 10%

About x402 settlement timing, not directly about reward splitting.

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Stablecoin Ledger$0.003 · EV 10%

Tangential to stablecoins and agent budgets, not directly about splitting citation rewards.

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Distributed Systems Notes$0.003 · EV 10%

About idempotency keys, only tangentially relevant to preventing double-spends, not central to reward splitting.

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Stripe Blog$0.002 · EV 5%

Payment disputes and travel trends, not nanopayments or citation splitting.

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Ethereum Foundation Blog$0.002 · EV 5%

Devcon and AI agents on Ethereum, not relevant.

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Cointelegraph.com News$0.002 · EV 5%

General crypto news, not specific to nanopayments.

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Decrypt$0.002 · EV 5%

General crypto news, not specific.

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CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data$0.002 · EV 5%

General crypto news, not relevant.

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Simon Willison's Weblog$0.003 · EV 5%

General tech weblog, not relevant.

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Hugging Face - Blog$0.003 · EV 5%

AI model blog, not about payments or rewards.

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The Coinbase Blog - Medium$0.003 · EV 5%

Regulatory approval, not relevant.

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Latent.Space$0.004 · EV 5%

AI agent podcast, no mention of nanopayment reward splitting.

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Vitalik Buterin's website$0.004 · EV 5%

Obfuscation and formal verification, not on-topic.

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Garden & Soil Monthly$0.002 · EV 0%

Irrelevant gardening content.

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Retro Game Hardware$0.002 · EV 0%

Irrelevant retro gaming content.

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Inner Axiom — The Codex$0.002 · EV 0%

Occult content, completely irrelevant.

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Conzit Labs$0.002 · EV 0%

Unrelated content (moon tree, travel), not relevant.

Fetch

Agent spend wallet ready: 0x29028Fe1122E17Fe7863A22701e863FE4DaE1aFB (balance sufficient)

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Reused cached Onchain Micropayments Digest (free) — S1

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Sub-claim "Nanopayments use a smart contract to automatically split cit…": 30% covered by S1 — S1 mentions automatic splitting but does not explicitly state smart contract usage.

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Sub-claim "The split is based on each author's predetermined contributi…": 20% covered by S1 — S1 mentions weighted contribution but not predetermined percentages.

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Sub-claim "The smart contract executes the split upon detection of a ci…": 0% covered — No mention of citation detection or trigger mechanism.

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Sub-claim "The reward is divided into multiple micropayments sent to ea…": 50% covered by S1 — S1 states 'split a single reward across contributors automatically,' implying multiple payments, though not explicitly micropayments.

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Claims 1, 2, and 3 have coverage below 0.5. Two affordable skipped sources may provide details on smart contracts and contribution splitting, which are missing from S1.

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Filling gap — buying Agent Economy Weekly ($0.004)…

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Paid $0.004 to Agent Economy Weekly (settled 8327e44a-d…) — S2

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Filling gap — buying Ethereum Foundation Blog ($0.002)…

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Paid $0.002 to Ethereum Foundation Blog (settled 4525e324-1…) — S3

Sufficiency

Final check — "Nanopayments use a smart contract to automatically split cit…": 30% assessed by S1

Sufficiency

Final check — "The split is based on each author's predetermined contributi…": 60% assessed by S1

Sufficiency

Final check — "The smart contract executes the split upon detection of a ci…": 20% assessed

Sufficiency

Final check — "The reward is divided into multiple micropayments sent to ea…": 80% assessed by S1

Sufficiency

Final coverage assessment — Sub-claims 1 and 3 have coverage below 0.4 because the sources do not explicitly mention smart contracts or detection of citations. Sub-claim 2 is partially covered, and sub-claim 4 is well covered, but missing details on the mechanism require further investigation.

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Synthesizing a grounded answer from 3 source(s)…

Evidence

Verified — S1 supports claim 4 at 100%: “multi-author works can split a single reward across contributors automatically”

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Drafted answer citing 1 source(s)

Verdict

Confidence: Low — 3 sub-claims remain below the evidence threshold.

Attribute

Onchain Micropayments Digest contributed 100% → reward $0.025

Settle

Settled $0.015 citation reward → Mara Okoye (f75d0490-d…)

Settle

Settled $0.01 citation reward → Devin Park (af0a181f-e…)

Done

Done. Spent $0.031 across 4 payment(s) to creators.

§ IIIThe settlementweighted · USDC on Arc

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Onchain Micropayments Digest

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Onchain Micropayments Digest

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Settled · USDC on Arc ↗$0.025

§ IIThe reading1 cited

Lowconfidence— 3 sub-claims remain below the evidence threshold

> ⚠ Low confidence — 3 sub-claims remain below the evidence threshold within budget. Treat this as provisional.

Nanopayments enable automatic splitting of a citation reward across multiple authors, with the split potentially weighted by contribution .

Evidence ledger — quotes verified before rewards

Nanopayments use a smart contract to automatically split citation rewards.
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No reward-qualifying evidence
The split is based on each author's predetermined contribution percentage.
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No reward-qualifying evidence
The smart contract executes the split upon detection of a citation.
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No reward-qualifying evidence
The reward is divided into multiple micropayments sent to each author.
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“multi-author works can split a single reward across contributors automatically” [S1] Onchain Micropayments Digest