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.
- How does per-request agent purchases without an account work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- I am reading about signed x402 payment authorization. What is the main point, and what does Agent Economy Weekly say about it?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- After reading Agent Economy Weekly on an HTTP 402 challenge for a paid resource, what follow-up question would help test the claim?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What is easy to misunderstand about stablecoin settlement versus card and ACH delays, and what does the evidence actually show?
· 3 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a useful comparison for understanding USDC as a unit of account for agent commerce, based on available evidence?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What concrete detail in Stablecoin Ledger helps explain volatile-token risk for agent spending caps?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- I need to brief a teammate on stablecoin-denominated agent budgets. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- If I were building a paid research agent, how would final settlement before paid API access affect a design decision?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What does Stablecoin Ledger establish about USDC peer-to-peer final settlement, and what remains uncertain?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about blockchains for tiny automated payments?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- Can you give a concrete example of cost and finality tradeoffs on Ethereum layer 2 networks using published source material?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- Which specific claim does Hugging Face - Blog make about open models for tool-using AI agents, and what supports that claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- How does evaluating factual grounding in language-model answers work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- I am reading about citing sources in LLM answers built from web search. What is the main point, and what does Simon Willison's Weblog say about it?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- After reading Simon Willison's Weblog on prompt injection risks in tool results, what follow-up question would help test the claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What is easy to misunderstand about infrastructure for multi-step agent tool use, and what does the evidence actually show?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a useful comparison for understanding deciding when an AI agent should call a tool, based on available evidence?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What concrete detail in Latent.Space helps explain AI agents using tools to gather information?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- I need to brief a teammate on transaction finality for automated software buyers. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?
· 2 cited · Arc testnet
- If I were building a paid research agent, how would Ethereum settlement versus application-level authorization affect a design decision?
· 3 cited · Arc testnet
- What does Stripe Blog establish about metered API access for online businesses, and what remains uncertain?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about developer payment APIs for online services?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- Can you give a concrete example of evidence preserved with a Keryx research receipt using published source material?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- Which specific claim does Keryx Engineering (first-party) make about payment evidence when research delivery fails, and what supports that claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- How does resuming a Keryx job without signing a second payment work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- I am reading about journaling a Keryx paid job before submission. What is the main point, and what does Keryx Engineering (first-party) say about it?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- After reading Keryx Engineering (first-party) on Keryx contribution weights for creator payouts, what follow-up question would help test the claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What is easy to misunderstand about Keryx access tolls versus citation rewards, and what does the evidence actually show?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a useful comparison for understanding why a source marker alone cannot support a claim, based on available evidence?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What concrete detail in Keryx Engineering (first-party) helps explain Keryx evidence checks before citation rewards?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- I need to brief a teammate on conflicting published estimates of x402 settlement time. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- If I were building a paid research agent, how would the assumption that every x402 payment needs its own transaction affect a design decision?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What does Arc Settlement Benchmarks establish about Arc settlement timing versus Ethereum L1 block timing, and what remains uncertain?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about Arc finality for small payment confirmation?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- How does x402 batched-settlement latency on Arc testnet work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- I am reading about payment recovery after a lost HTTP response. What is the main point, and what does Distributed Systems Notes say about it?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- After reading Distributed Systems Notes on payer-resource-nonce keys that prevent double charges, what follow-up question would help test the claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What is easy to misunderstand about idempotency keys for paid API retries, and what does the evidence actually show?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a useful comparison for understanding sub-cent payments per cited source, based on available evidence?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What concrete detail in Onchain Micropayments Digest helps explain splitting a citation reward among coauthors?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- I need to brief a teammate on citation rewards weighted by source contribution. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- If I were building a paid research agent, how would the claimed $0.000001 nanopayment floor affect a design decision?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What does Onchain Micropayments Digest establish about transaction gas as a barrier to tiny creator rewards, and what remains uncertain?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about batched off-chain authorizations for nanopayments?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- Can you give a concrete example of weighing a paid source against its price using published source material?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- Which specific claim does Agent Economy Weekly make about an agent deciding when to stop buying sources, and what supports that claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- How does a hard source-spending budget for research agents work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- I am reading about per-request agent purchases without an account. What is the main point, and what does Agent Economy Weekly say about it?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- After reading Agent Economy Weekly on signed x402 payment authorization, what follow-up question would help test the claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What is easy to misunderstand about an HTTP 402 challenge for a paid resource, and what does the evidence actually show?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet