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What does Onchain Micropayments Digest establish about the claimed $0.000001 nanopayment floor, and what remains uncertain?

Lowconfidence— 1 sub-claim remains below the evidence threshold

9/30/2026, 10:40:18 AM · llm:deepseek:deepseek-v4-flash + heuristic (fallback from llm:mimo:mimo-v2.5) on 1 step

§ IIThe reading1 cited
Lowconfidence— 1 sub-claim remains below the evidence thresholddeep researchpreview plan 2/2 claimsportfolio 1/1 · evidence 100%

> ⚠ Low confidence — 1 sub-claim remains below the evidence threshold within budget. Treat this as provisional.

Onchain Micropayments Digest states that nanopayments push the minimum economical payment to about $0.000001 by signing off-chain authorizations and settling them in batches . It explains that instead of paying gas per transaction, many micro-authorizations settle together . The digest adds that this makes paying a creator a fraction of a cent per citation actually viable . However, the digest does not specify what remains uncertain about the $0.000001 floor; the supplied passage contains no discussion of open questions, limitations, or unresolved aspects of that figure, so that part of the research question is unanswered by the available source.

Evidence ledger — quotes verified before rewards

  1. What does Onchain Micropayments Digest establish about the claimed $0.000001 nanopayment floor?

    100%
    “Nanopayments push the minimum economical payment to about $0.000001 by signing off-chain authorizations and settling them in batches.” [S1] Nanopayments and the $0.000001 floor
  2. What remains uncertain about the claimed $0.000001 nanopayment floor according to Onchain Micropayments Digest?

    0%

    No reward-qualifying evidence

Cited sources and planned rewards

Helpful?
Spent$0.015
To creators100%
Decisions0 bought · 1 cached · 20 skipped
llm:deepseek:deepseek-v4-flash + heuristic (fallback from llm:mimo:mimo-v2.5) on 1 steplive on Arc testnet
Decision log · 48 steps
§ IThe decision$0.015 settled / $0.03
50%$0.015 under cap
Decompose

Breaking down: "What does Onchain Micropayments Digest establish about the claimed $0.000001 nanopayment floor, and what remains uncertain?"

Decompose

Identified 2 research target(s) to investigate; these are not established facts

Decompose

Deep mode: up to 4 paid/cached reads plus one bounded gap-expansion pass when needed.

Discover

Discovered 21 verified source(s)

Discover

Recalled 24 past runs on this subject — how these sources performed when they were available.

Discover

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

Pre-check

Claim-aware portfolio selected 1/1 positive proposal(s): 1 cached + 0 fresh, predicting 2/2 claim(s) above the evidence floor with $0.000000/$0.015000 fetch USDC reserved.

Pre-check

Free-preview pre-check maps an actionable source to every sub-claim (2/2); paid reading may proceed within the budget.

DecideCACHE
Onchain Micropayments Digest — Nanopayments and the $0.000001 floor$0.005 · EV 46%

Already cached and still relevant (matches onchain, micropayments, digest, 000001, floor); reuse for free instead of paying again. — selected for the claim-aware evidence portfolio (targets claims 1, 2; 0 fetch USDC, 1 attention slot).

DecideSKIP
Stablecoin Ledger — Why USDC settles instantly onchain$0.003 · EV 9%

Already cached and still relevant (matches onchain); 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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Agent Economy Weekly — x402 turns HTTP 402 into an agent payment rail$0.004 · EV 0%

Weak match (no key terms); not worth 0.004 USDC.

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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 — What Stripe data shows about fraud at AI startups$0.002 · EV 0%

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

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Ethereum Foundation Blog — The triage is the product: running AI agents against Ethereum's protocol code$0.002 · EV 0%

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

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Cointelegraph.com News — Onchain, in court: What happened in crypto legal news this week$0.002 · EV 9%

Already cached and still relevant (matches onchain); 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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Latent.Space — Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic Web$0.004 · EV 0%

Weak match (no key terms); not worth 0.004 USDC.

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Simon Willison's Weblog — Feeling sad about AI$0.003 · EV 0%

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

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Hugging Face - Blog — What building Shippy taught us about building agents$0.003 · EV 0%

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

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Vitalik Buterin's website — Low-risk defi can be for Ethereum what search was for Google$0.004 · EV 9%

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

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The Coinbase Blog - Medium — In response to the Wall Street Journal$0.003 · EV 0%

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

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Decrypt — Putin Signs Russia's First Crypto Law: Trading Is Legal, Payments Stay Banned$0.002 · EV 9%

Already cached and still relevant (matches remains); 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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CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data — Crypto Long & Short: Inside the 300-to-1 onchain gap between the dollar and euro$0.002 · EV 9%

Already cached and still relevant (matches onchain); 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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Inner Axiom — The Codex — The Pleiades, the Seven Sisters in Taurus and Orion$0.002 · EV 9%

Already cached and still relevant (matches according); 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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Conzit Labs — Trump Administration's AI Cybersecurity Plan Remains Under Wraps$0.002 · EV 9%

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

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Arc Settlement Benchmarks — Measuring x402 settlement latency on Arc$0.003 · EV 0%

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

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Web Payments Review — How long do x402 payments take to finalize?$0.002 · EV 0%

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

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Keryx Engineering (first-party) — Recovering a Keryx paid research job$0.002 · EV 0%

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

Fetch

Agent spend wallet ready: 0x29028Fe1122E17Fe7863A22701e863FE4DaE1aFB (balance sufficient)

Fetch

Reused cached Onchain Micropayments Digest — Nanopayments and the $0.000001 floor (free) — S1

Re-evaluate

Sub-claim "What does Onchain Micropayments Digest establish about the c…": 80% covered by S1 — S1 explicitly states nanopayments push the minimum economical payment to about $0.000001 via off-chain authorizations settled in batches, avoiding per-transaction gas, making sub-cent payments viable. This directly answers the mechanism and the floor claim, though it is an abstract and lacks quantitative verification detail.

Re-evaluate

Sub-claim "What remains uncertain about the claimed $0.000001 nanopayme…": 10% covered — S1 provides no statement of uncertainty, caveats, or open questions about the $0.000001 floor. The abstract asserts the floor without discussing what remains uncertain, so this sub-claim is essentially unaddressed.

Re-evaluate

The first sub-claim is well covered by S1 (0.8). The second sub-claim is poorly covered (0.1), but none of the affordable skipped sources (all ≤0.004, within the 0.015 budget) address uncertainty about the $0.000001 nanopayment floor. The closest candidates—Arc Settlement Benchmarks and Web Payments Review—concern x402 settlement latency, not the nanopayment floor's uncertainty. Buying them would not fill the gap, so no purchase is recommended.

Sufficiency

Final check — "What does Onchain Micropayments Digest establish about the c…": 100% assessed by S1

Sufficiency

Final check — "What remains uncertain about the claimed $0.000001 nanopayme…": 0% assessed

Sufficiency

Final coverage assessment — The supplied abstract from Onchain Micropayments Digest directly addresses the first sub-claim: it establishes that nanopayments push the minimum economical payment to about $0.000001 by signing off-chain authorizations and settling them in batches, avoiding per-transaction gas. It does not, however, state what remains uncertain about that floor. No passage discusses uncertainty, caveats, limitations, or open questions, so the second sub-claim is not covered. The assessment does not establish a complete supported answer for every requested part.

Synthesize

Synthesizing a grounded answer from 1 source(s)…

Evidence

Relevance review returned; only checked excerpts can retain support, and review cannot raise it.

Evidence

Verified — S1 supports claim 1 at 100%: “Nanopayments push the minimum economical payment to about $0.000001 by signing off-chain authorizations and settling them in batches.”

Evidence

Below reward gate — S1 supports claim 1 at 20%: “Instead of paying gas per transaction, many micro-authorizations settle together.”

Evidence

Below reward gate — S1 supports claim 2 at 10%: “This makes paying a creator a fraction of a cent per citation actually viable.”

Synthesize

Drafted answer citing 1 source(s)

Verdict

Confidence: Low — 1 sub-claim remains below the evidence threshold.

Attribute

Onchain Micropayments Digest contributed 100% → reward $0.015

Settle

Settled $0.009 citation reward → Mara Okoye (7f233c04-8…)

Settle

Settled $0.006 citation reward → Devin Park (276925a9-3…)

Done

Done. Spent $0.015 across 2 confirmed/simulated payment(s) to creators.

Portable research receipt

Take the evidence trail with you

One deterministic JSON bundle binds the answer, visible decisions, exact article versions, claim evidence and a Circle-settlement snapshot under SHA-256. Retain the digest to detect later changes; the self-check is not a publisher or Keryx signature.

Exact receipt still current

1 exact cited article version still match Keryx's current index.

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