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.
- Which specific claim does Ethereum Foundation Blog make about transaction finality for automated software buyers, and what supports that claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a useful comparison for understanding payment evidence when research delivery fails, based on available evidence?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What does Keryx Engineering (first-party) establish about Keryx access tolls versus citation rewards, and what remains uncertain?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- I am reading about Arc settlement timing versus Ethereum L1 block timing. What is the main point, and what does Arc Settlement Benchmarks say about it?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- I need to brief a teammate on payer-resource-nonce keys that prevent double charges. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- Can you give a concrete example of citation rewards weighted by source contribution using published source material?
· 2 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a useful comparison for understanding a hard source-spending budget for research agents, based on available evidence?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What does Stablecoin Ledger establish about stablecoin settlement versus card and ACH delays, and what remains uncertain?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- How does final settlement before paid API access work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?
· 3 cited · Arc testnet
- What concrete detail in Hugging Face - Blog helps explain evaluating factual grounding in language-model answers?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What is easy to misunderstand about developer payment APIs for online services, and what does the evidence actually show?
· 3 cited · Arc testnet
- What does Keryx Engineering (first-party) establish about Keryx contribution weights for creator payouts, and what remains uncertain?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- How does conflicting published estimates of x402 settlement time work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?
· 2 cited · Arc testnet
- What concrete detail in Arc Settlement Benchmarks helps explain x402 batched-settlement latency on Arc testnet?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about sub-cent payments per cited source?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- I am reading about transaction gas as a barrier to tiny creator rewards. What is the main point, and what does Onchain Micropayments Digest say about it?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- I need to brief a teammate on per-request agent purchases without an account. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?
· 4 cited · Arc testnet
- How does stablecoin-denominated agent budgets work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What is easy to misunderstand about blockchains for tiny automated payments, and what does the evidence actually show?
· 2 cited · Arc testnet
- What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about infrastructure for multi-step agent tool use?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- After reading Ethereum Foundation Blog on Ethereum settlement versus application-level authorization, what follow-up question would help test the claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What monetization options exist for small browser extensions in 2025-2026, and can agent payment protocols like x402 realistically replace ads or subscriptions for extension developers?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- I need to brief a teammate on payment evidence when research delivery fails. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- Which specific claim does Keryx Engineering (first-party) make about why a source marker alone cannot support a claim, and what supports that claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a useful comparison for understanding Arc finality for small payment confirmation, based on available evidence?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about idempotency keys for paid API retries?
· 2 cited · Arc testnet
- After reading Onchain Micropayments Digest on transaction gas as a barrier to tiny creator rewards, what follow-up question would help test the claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What are recommended patterns for reconciling batched x402 / Circle Gateway nanopayments — distinguishing settled vs pending vs failed states and separating obligations from spendable funds in an agent payment system?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- I need to brief a teammate on a hard source-spending budget for research agents. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?
· 2 cited · Arc testnet
- Which specific claim does Stablecoin Ledger make about USDC as a unit of account for agent commerce, and what supports that claim?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- If I were building a paid research agent, how would evaluating factual grounding in language-model answers affect a design decision?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- How does AI agents using tools to gather information work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- I need to brief a teammate on evidence preserved with a Keryx research receipt. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- Which specific claim does Keryx Engineering (first-party) make about Keryx access tolls versus citation rewards, and what supports that claim?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What is easy to misunderstand about the assumption that every x402 payment needs its own transaction, and what does the evidence actually show?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What does Distributed Systems Notes establish about payment recovery after a lost HTTP response, and what remains uncertain?
· 2 cited · Arc testnet
- How does splitting a citation reward among coauthors work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a useful comparison for understanding batched off-chain authorizations for nanopayments, based on available evidence?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- Can you give a concrete example of an HTTP 402 challenge for a paid resource using published source material?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- After reading Stablecoin Ledger on stablecoin-denominated agent budgets, what follow-up question would help test the claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- If I were building a paid research agent, how would open models for tool-using AI agents affect a design decision?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- Which specific claim does Latent.Space make about infrastructure for multi-step agent tool use, and what supports that claim?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- What is a useful comparison for understanding splitting a citation reward among coauthors, based on available evidence?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What concrete detail in Onchain Micropayments Digest helps explain citation rewards weighted by source contribution?
· 1 cited · Arc testnet
- I need to brief a teammate on the claimed $0.000001 nanopayment floor. 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 transaction gas as a barrier to tiny creator rewards affect a design decision?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What does Onchain Micropayments Digest establish about batched off-chain authorizations for nanopayments, and what remains uncertain?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about weighing a paid source against its price?
· 2 cited · Arc testnet
- Can you give a concrete example of an agent deciding when to stop buying sources using published source material?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet
- Which specific claim does Agent Economy Weekly make about a hard source-spending budget for research agents, and what supports that claim?
· 0 cited · Arc testnet