How do x402 citation tolls and stablecoins let reading agents pay sources?

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Stablecoin Ledger — Stablecoins as the unit of account for agents$0.003 · EV 20%

Already cached and still relevant (matches stablecoins, agents); reuse for free instead of paying again. — cached bytes are free, but this read does not clear the attention gate (EV 0.20, minimum 0.45, with a required claim target).

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Agent Economy Weekly — x402 turns HTTP 402 into an agent payment rail$0.004 · EV 30%

Already cached and still relevant (matches x402, agents, pay); reuse for free instead of paying again. — cached bytes are free, but this read does not clear the attention gate (EV 0.30, minimum 0.45, with a required claim target).

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Onchain Micropayments Digest — Per-citation payments weighted by contribution$0.005 · EV 20%

Already cached and still relevant (matches citation, sources); reuse for free instead of paying again. — cached bytes are free, but this read does not clear the attention gate (EV 0.20, minimum 0.45, with a required claim target).

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Distributed Systems Notes — Idempotency keys prevent double-spends$0.003 · EV 0%

Weak match (no key terms); not worth 0.003 USDC.

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Garden & Soil Monthly — Building a no-dig raised bed$0.002 · EV 0%

Weak match (no key terms); not worth 0.002 USDC.

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Retro Game Hardware — Recapping a 1990s console$0.002 · EV 0%

Weak match (no key terms); not worth 0.002 USDC.

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Stripe Blog — Giving agents the ability to pay$0.002 · EV 20%

Already cached and still relevant (matches agents, pay); reuse for free instead of paying again. — cached bytes are free, but this read does not clear the attention gate (EV 0.20, minimum 0.45, with a required claim target).

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Ethereum Foundation Blog — The triage is the product: running AI agents against Ethereum's protocol code$0.002 · EV 10%

Already cached and still relevant (matches agents); reuse for free instead of paying again. — free-preview expected value 0.10 is below the 0.12 spend floor, so no toll is authorized.

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Cointelegraph.com News — Bybit Pay integrates with Mesh to expand crypto payments$0.002 · EV 10%

Already cached and still relevant (matches pay); reuse for free instead of paying again. — free-preview expected value 0.10 is below the 0.12 spend floor, so no toll is authorized.

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Latent.Space — Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic Web$0.004 · EV 10%

Already cached and still relevant (matches agents); reuse for free instead of paying again. — free-preview expected value 0.10 is below the 0.12 spend floor, so no toll is authorized.

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Simon Willison's Weblog — Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive$0.003 · EV 10%

Weak match (only agents); not worth 0.003 USDC.

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Hugging Face - Blog — TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back?$0.003 · EV 10%

Weak match (only agents); not worth 0.003 USDC.

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Vitalik Buterin's website — Let a thousand societies bloom$0.004 · EV 10%

Weak match (only let); not worth 0.004 USDC.

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The Coinbase Blog - Medium — How Coinbase Protects Users From Risky Assets$0.003 · EV 10%

Already cached and still relevant (matches stablecoins); reuse for free instead of paying again. — free-preview expected value 0.10 is below the 0.12 spend floor, so no toll is authorized.

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Decrypt — BlackRock: AI Agents Could Drive Crypto's Next Demand Wave$0.002 · EV 20%

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CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data — Bitcoin and Ether bears get decimated amid 'squeeze-led' rally and Musk's X wants to pay creators in stablecoins: Crypto week in 5 stories$0.002 · EV 20%

Already cached and still relevant (matches stablecoins, pay); reuse for free instead of paying again. — cached bytes are free, but this read does not clear the attention gate (EV 0.20, minimum 0.45, with a required claim target).

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Inner Axiom — The Codex — Esoteric Bible Reading: Interpretation of "666"$0.002 · EV 10%

Weak match (only reading); not worth 0.002 USDC.

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Conzit Labs — The Rise of AI Marketing Agents: Transforming Operations by 2026$0.002 · EV 10%

Already cached and still relevant (matches agents); reuse for free instead of paying again. — free-preview expected value 0.10 is below the 0.12 spend floor, so no toll is authorized.

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Arc Settlement Benchmarks — Measuring x402 settlement latency on Arc$0.003 · EV 10%

Already cached and still relevant (matches x402); reuse for free instead of paying again. — the free-preview coverage check could not connect this source to any sub-claim, so no toll is authorized.

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Web Payments Review — How long do x402 payments take to finalize?$0.002 · EV 10%

Already cached and still relevant (matches x402); reuse for free instead of paying again. — the free-preview coverage check could not connect this source to any sub-claim, so no toll is authorized.

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Keryx Engineering (first-party) — Recovering a Keryx paid research job$0.002 · EV 30%

Already cached and still relevant (matches x402, citation, agents); reuse for free instead of paying again. — cached bytes are free, but this read does not clear the attention gate (EV 0.30, minimum 0.45, with a required claim target).

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