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
Download creator data →Ranked by settled access and citation payments to each original source and wallet. Historical listings do not establish current publisher control.
- 19.445228 test USDC
Stablecoin Ledger
0x32ef…0933 ↗ · 1,184 cites · 1,262 payments
- 28.868264 test USDC
Agent Economy Weekly
0x3cd0…65e3 ↗ · 1,079 cites · 1,167 payments
- 35.382926 test USDC
Onchain Micropayments Digest
0xd6a2…9ff8 ↗ · 1,050 cites · 1,050 payments
- 45.038727 test USDC
Arc Settlement Benchmarks
0x9aea…331d ↗ · 756 cites · 950 payments
- 53.588614 test USDC
Onchain Micropayments Digest
0x13c8…6322 ↗ · 1,050 cites · 1,050 payments
- 62.646853 test USDC
Distributed Systems Notes
0x3d52…7ebe ↗ · 302 cites · 476 payments
- 72.010595 test USDC
Cointelegraph.com News
0xbfee…8689 ↗ · 153 cites · 641 payments
- 81.998823 test USDC
Web Payments Review
0x96db…fd52 ↗ · 501 cites · 612 payments
- 91.807349 test USDC
CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data
0x04a8…66cc ↗ · 166 cites · 575 payments
- 101.679483 test USDC
Latent.Space
0x3af1…a911 ↗ · 135 cites · 323 payments
- 111.551999 test USDC
Ethereum Foundation Blog
0x1337…107e ↗ · 171 cites · 474 payments
- 121.551869 test USDC
Stripe Blog
0xde6f…2d98 ↗ · 178 cites · 396 payments
- 131.543466 test USDC
Decrypt
0x3e3e…b32d ↗ · 124 cites · 487 payments
- 141.465917 test USDC
The Coinbase Blog - Medium
0xafac…a9e7 ↗ · 136 cites · 322 payments
- 151.356102 test USDC
Garden & Soil Monthly
0x544b…3e8c ↗ · 101 cites · 206 payments
- 160.999267 test USDC
Hugging Face - Blog
0x8fdd…109a ↗ · 84 cites · 271 payments
- 170.995074 test USDC
Vitalik Buterin's website
0x8459…0c35 ↗ · 75 cites · 276 payments
- 180.987484 test USDC
Conzit Labs
0x72cf…c157 ↗ · 52 cites · 124 payments
- 190.9265 test USDC
Keryx Engineering (first-party)
0x6644…fda2 ↗ · 58 cites · 74 payments
- 200.858165 test USDC
Simon Willison's Weblog
0x8458…3f67 ↗ · 54 cites · 290 payments
- 210.776692 test USDC
Retro Game Hardware
0x40dd…9b63 ↗ · 52 cites · 94 payments
- 220.775 test USDC
Onchain Micropayments Digest
0xbfdd…90c8 ↗ · 0 cites · 155 payments
- 230.493667 test USDC
Inner Axiom — The Codex
0xdad4…cd73 ↗ · 25 cites · 39 payments
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.
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.
- If I were building a paid research agent, how would volatile-token risk for agent spending caps affect a design decision?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What does Stablecoin Ledger establish about stablecoin-denominated agent budgets, and what remains uncertain?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about final settlement before paid API access?
· 2 cited · Arc testnet
- Can you give a concrete example of USDC peer-to-peer final settlement using published source material?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- How does cost and finality tradeoffs on Ethereum layer 2 networks work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- I am reading about open models for tool-using AI agents. What is the main point, and what does Hugging Face - Blog say about it?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- After reading Hugging Face - Blog on evaluating factual grounding in language-model answers, what follow-up question would help test the claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a useful comparison for understanding prompt injection risks in tool results, based on available evidence?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What does Web Payments Review establish about conflicting published estimates of x402 settlement time, and what remains uncertain?
· 2 cited · Arc testnet
- What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about the assumption that every x402 payment needs its own transaction?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- Can you give a concrete example of Arc settlement timing versus Ethereum L1 block timing using published source material?
· 2 cited · Arc testnet
- Which specific claim does Arc Settlement Benchmarks make about Arc finality for small payment confirmation, and what supports that claim?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- How does median and p95 Arc settlement measurements work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- After reading Arc Settlement Benchmarks on x402 batched-settlement latency on Arc testnet, what follow-up question would help test the claim?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- Our team is considering dependency update practices for open-source projects. What should we check before adopting it?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a common alternative to dependency update practices for open-source projects, and how do they compare based on documented facts?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What tends to go wrong with dependency update practices for open-source projects, and how would someone notice?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What are the main tradeoffs of dependency update practices for open-source projects for a small organization?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What evidence would let me independently verify a claim about dependency update practices for open-source projects?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- I am learning about dependency update practices for open-source projects. What is a concrete example, and which parts are documented?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- I have to brief a colleague on verifiable receipts for creator payments. Which questions should we ask first, and why?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What problem led to verifiable receipts for creator payments, and what changed from earlier approaches?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What are the known limitations of verifiable receipts for creator payments, and where are they documented?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- Who are the main participants involved in verifiable receipts for creator payments, and what does each one do?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- How could we measure whether verifiable receipts for creator payments is working as intended?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- Our team is considering verifiable receipts for creator payments. What should we check before adopting it?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a common alternative to verifiable receipts for creator payments, and how do they compare based on documented facts?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What tends to go wrong with verifiable receipts for creator payments, and how would someone notice?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What are the main tradeoffs of verifiable receipts for creator payments for a small organization?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What evidence would let me independently verify a claim about verifiable receipts for creator payments?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- I am learning about verifiable receipts for creator payments. What is a concrete example, and which parts are documented?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- Can you explain verifiable receipts for creator payments in plain language, with sources I can check?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- I have to brief a colleague on USDC decimal precision in small payments. Which questions should we ask first, and why?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What problem led to USDC decimal precision in small payments, and what changed from earlier approaches?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What problem led to the x402 HTTP payment flow, and what changed from earlier approaches?
· 3 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a common alternative to USDC transaction fees on Arc testnet, and how do they compare based on documented facts?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What tends to go wrong with USDC transaction fees on Arc testnet, and how would someone notice?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- Can you explain measuring search-result relevance in plain language, with sources I can check?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What problem led to model-provider failover during research, and what changed from earlier approaches?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What are the known limitations of model-provider failover during research, and where are they documented?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- Who are the main participants involved in model-provider failover during research, and what does each one do?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- How could we measure whether model-provider failover during research is working as intended?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- Our team is considering model-provider failover during research. What should we check before adopting it?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a common alternative to model-provider failover during research, and how do they compare based on documented facts?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What tends to go wrong with model-provider failover during research, and how would someone notice?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What are the main tradeoffs of model-provider failover during research for a small organization?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What evidence would let me independently verify a claim about model-provider failover during research?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What are the known limitations of evaluation of autonomous research agents, and where are they documented?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What are practical ways for publishers to license machine-readable research access?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What should a client do when a paid HTTP request times out after payment authorization?
· 2 cited · Arc testnet