Original testnet dispatches

The track record

Arc testnet history

Recorded reading and creator payments from 2026-06-15 to 2026-10-02. Original testnet evidence is retained alongside current mainnet activity.

Recorded questions: 3,280
Settled creator payments: 11,314
Settled to creator wallets: 56.748064 test USDC
Creator wallets paid: 23

Testnet USDC, separate from mainnet. Includes owner-operated activity; these totals do not establish independent customers or event-period growth.

Testnet creator leaderboard

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Ranked by settled access and citation payments to each original source and wallet. Historical listings do not establish current publisher control.

1
Stablecoin Ledger
0x32ef…0933 ↗ · 1,184 cites · 1,262 payments
9.445228 test USDC
2
Agent Economy Weekly
0x3cd0…65e3 ↗ · 1,079 cites · 1,167 payments
8.868264 test USDC
3
Onchain Micropayments Digest
0xd6a2…9ff8 ↗ · 1,050 cites · 1,050 payments
5.382926 test USDC
4
Arc Settlement Benchmarks
0x9aea…331d ↗ · 756 cites · 950 payments
5.038727 test USDC
5
Onchain Micropayments Digest
0x13c8…6322 ↗ · 1,050 cites · 1,050 payments
3.588614 test USDC
6
Distributed Systems Notes
0x3d52…7ebe ↗ · 302 cites · 476 payments
2.646853 test USDC
7
Cointelegraph.com News
0xbfee…8689 ↗ · 153 cites · 641 payments
2.010595 test USDC
8
Web Payments Review
0x96db…fd52 ↗ · 501 cites · 612 payments
1.998823 test USDC
9
CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data
0x04a8…66cc ↗ · 166 cites · 575 payments
1.807349 test USDC
10
Latent.Space
0x3af1…a911 ↗ · 135 cites · 323 payments
1.679483 test USDC
11
Ethereum Foundation Blog
0x1337…107e ↗ · 171 cites · 474 payments
1.551999 test USDC
12
Stripe Blog
0xde6f…2d98 ↗ · 178 cites · 396 payments
1.551869 test USDC
13
Decrypt
0x3e3e…b32d ↗ · 124 cites · 487 payments
1.543466 test USDC
14
The Coinbase Blog - Medium
0xafac…a9e7 ↗ · 136 cites · 322 payments
1.465917 test USDC
15
Garden & Soil Monthly
0x544b…3e8c ↗ · 101 cites · 206 payments
1.356102 test USDC
16
Hugging Face - Blog
0x8fdd…109a ↗ · 84 cites · 271 payments
0.999267 test USDC
17
Vitalik Buterin's website
0x8459…0c35 ↗ · 75 cites · 276 payments
0.995074 test USDC
18
Conzit Labs
0x72cf…c157 ↗ · 52 cites · 124 payments
0.987484 test USDC
19
Keryx Engineering (first-party)
0x6644…fda2 ↗ · 58 cites · 74 payments
0.9265 test USDC
20
Simon Willison's Weblog
0x8458…3f67 ↗ · 54 cites · 290 payments
0.858165 test USDC
21
Retro Game Hardware
0x40dd…9b63 ↗ · 52 cites · 94 payments
0.776692 test USDC
22
Onchain Micropayments Digest
0xbfdd…90c8 ↗ · 0 cites · 155 payments
0.775 test USDC
23
Inner Axiom — The Codex
0xdad4…cd73 ↗ · 25 cites · 39 payments
0.493667 test USDC

Inspect archived totals and channels

settled payment records: 11,950 · 84.638064 test USDC
pending payment records: 1 · 0.002 test USDC
failed payment records: 0 · 0 test USDC
simulated payment records: 0 · 0 test USDC
Service receipts (separate from creator payments): 636
citation records · settled amount: 7,486 · 46.618064 test USDC
fetch records · settled amount: 3,829 · 10.13 test USDC
inbound records · settled amount: 636 · 27.89 test USDC
a2a questions: 251
engine questions: 2,752
mcp questions: 92
web questions: 185

Snapshot captured 2026-10-03T00:26:18.665Z. Settlement states are frozen at capture time. Wallets and channels are recorded identities, not independent people.

Archive data Event-period evidence

Every recorded public question is available here, including runs with no citations or no payment. Open its original dispatch link to read the answer and full trace.

What are the key findings in "ISIS: The Godess, From An Esoteric Perspective"?
2026-09-06T22:52:17.140Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Why crypto experts say buying and holding bitcoin easily beats trying to time the..." reveal about stablecoins?
2026-09-06T21:45:53.485Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What is the role of EIP-712 signatures in x402 payment authorization?
2026-09-06T20:44:49.675Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Stablecoins Wont Scale Without Banks" reveal about payments?
2026-09-06T20:42:28.604Z · 2 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Coinbase gains regulatory approval in the Netherlands" reveal about usdc?
2026-09-06T19:22:24.853Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing" reveal about ethereum?
2026-09-06T18:16:14.005Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv" reveal about llm?
2026-09-06T16:55:35.792Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What role do stablecoins play in machine-to-machine payments?
2026-09-06T16:00:13.337Z · 2 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers" reveal about llm?
2026-09-06T15:56:31.314Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "[AINews] GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI’s biggest LLM launch of all time" reveal about ai agents?
2026-09-06T15:03:11.038Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Satoshi-era Bitcoin wakes after 16 years of dormancy as 600 BTC moves" reveal about payments?
2026-09-06T13:56:37.293Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Announcing the Platåberget Testnet" reveal about crypto?
2026-09-06T12:28:22.983Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
How can creators get paid when AI agents cite their work?
2026-09-06T10:57:06.548Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Recapping a 1990s console" reveal about hardware?
2026-09-06T09:38:03.110Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Building a no-dig raised bed" reveal about compost?
2026-09-06T08:02:48.448Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
How do x402 and stablecoins enable autonomous AI agent commerce?
2026-09-06T06:50:08.911Z · 2 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Idempotency keys prevent double-spends" reveal about consensus?
2026-09-06T06:47:25.500Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
How do micropayments change the economics of content for AI readers?
2026-09-06T05:47:08.508Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Nanopayments and the $0.000001 floor" reveal about batching?
2026-09-06T05:44:30.675Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Budgets make agents decide, not just automate" reveal about autonomous commerce?
2026-09-06T04:40:43.451Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Why USDC settles instantly onchain" reveal about stablecoins?
2026-09-06T02:35:17.110Z · 2 cited · Arc testnet
What makes an AI agent's spending decisions rational under a hard budget?
2026-09-06T01:10:38.684Z · 2 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Building a no-dig raised bed" reveal about gardening?
2026-09-06T01:08:26.921Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Idempotency keys prevent double-spends" reveal about replication?
2026-09-05T23:37:51.665Z · 2 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Nanopayments and the $0.000001 floor" reveal about batching?
2026-09-05T22:26:33.797Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Budgets make agents decide, not just automate" reveal about autonomous commerce?
2026-09-05T20:56:28.909Z · 2 cited · Arc testnet
What are the tradeoffs between batched and per-request nanopayments for AI agents?
2026-09-05T19:34:08.064Z · 4 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Why USDC settles instantly onchain" reveal about stablecoins?
2026-09-05T19:30:00.613Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
How long do x402 payments take to finalize?
2026-09-05T18:15:18.443Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Measuring x402 settlement latency on Arc" reveal about finality?
2026-09-05T17:05:00.008Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What are the key findings in "7Artisans Launches Compact AF 40mm f/2.5 for L & Z-Mounts"?
2026-09-05T16:05:26.826Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
Why is per-citation settlement fairer than a flat per-fetch toll?
2026-09-05T15:09:01.816Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What are the key findings in "ISIS: The Godess, From An Esoteric Perspective"?
2026-09-05T15:07:08.620Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "AMC CEO tells Robinhood to stop issuing stock token as industry executives weigh..." reveal about stablecoins?
2026-09-05T14:06:07.905Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "G7 Warns Quantum Threat Demands Action as Crypto Industry Weighs Fixes" reveal about payments?
2026-09-05T13:06:38.762Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Coinbase gains regulatory approval in the Netherlands" reveal about usdc?
2026-09-05T11:55:26.702Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
How does CCTP enable cross-chain USDC transfers between domains?
2026-09-05T10:54:10.952Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing" reveal about ethereum?
2026-09-05T10:51:11.977Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What are the tradeoffs between batched and per-request nanopayments for AI agents?
2026-09-05T09:49:54.273Z · 2 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv" reveal about llm?
2026-09-05T09:46:39.666Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "August newsletter is out" reveal about llm?
2026-09-05T08:17:04.212Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "GPT-6 Astra: an automated AI Engineer you can hire for <$6 an hour" reveal about ai agents?
2026-09-05T06:45:10.884Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
How do x402 and stablecoins enable autonomous AI agent commerce?
2026-09-05T05:56:23.229Z · 2 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Surprise nonfarm payrolls print sends Bitcoin back below 80K" reveal about payments?
2026-09-05T05:52:22.168Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
What are the key findings in "OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis"?
2026-09-05T04:51:38.723Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Announcing the Platåberget Testnet" reveal about crypto?
2026-09-05T04:40:19.455Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
What does "New currency capabilities for global businesses to cut FX costs" reveal about payments?
2026-09-05T03:28:54.822Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Recapping a 1990s console" reveal about hardware?
2026-09-05T01:59:28.616Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet
How do x402 and stablecoins enable autonomous AI agent commerce?
2026-09-05T00:53:32.335Z · 1 cited · Arc testnet
What does "Building a no-dig raised bed" reveal about compost?
2026-09-05T00:50:52.318Z · 0 cited · Arc testnet

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