Agents pay creators on merit.
AI reads creators' work and pays them nothing. Merit changes that — it escrows USDC, verifies every citation, and pays only for sources that pass verification, refusing cited-but-unsupported claims. A signed receipt for every settlement.
Watch the agent decide who gets paid.
Set a question and a budget, run it, and watch the loop settle real money — releasing to cited sources and refusing the rest.
Six steps. One autonomous loop.
From a question and a budget to settled, receipted payments — the agent runs the whole cycle on its own.
The agent surfaces candidate sources, each with a merit score and a price-per-use.
USDC is locked against each source — held, not yet paid. The split stays visible.
It writes an answer that cites specific sources — and excludes the ones it didn't use.
Each cited claim faces two gates: an adversarial judge that checks the source actually supports it, and a deterministic numeric verifier that re-checks every figure. Fail either and nothing pays.
Cited + verified releases payment. Uncited or unverified is refunded, with the reason shown.
Merit scores update from the outcome — a portable, on-chain track record for both sides.
AI pays creators almost nothing.
Merit changes the rule.
Today's agent payments are pay-then-pray. Merit makes payment conditional on proven, used value.
Creators get scraped. Agents pay flat fees with no proof the work was used. No receipts, no recourse, no track record.
Payment is conditional on verified, cited, actually-used value. Refunds are automatic. Reputation is portable.
A trust layer for agent commerce.
Money is escrowed up front and releases only for value that's verified and actually cited.
Every settlement is a verifiable record a judge or auditor could check.
A portable score from release-vs-refund history — every update verifiable on-chain.
Pay fractions of a cent, per use, settled in real time.
Works for agents paying and creators earning — the same proof serves everyone.
Sub-second finality on Circle's stablecoin L1, in USDC. Legible to humans and machines.
One verifier, every hat the agentic economy needs.
Score any endpoint, hire and get hired on verified work, open a market settled by ground truth, license verified media, and get paid on any chain — all gated by the same proof-of-citation oracle. Every card below is live on the deployment; open it and use it.
A verified citation releases the escrow on-chain; a failed one makes complete() revert and refunds. The MeritVerificationHook enforces it — a lie cannot get paid.
Try to break it ↗Buy AI that is proven to have run correctly (a 0G TEE hardware attestation) and proven to be right (Merit's verifier, whose judge is itself an attested 0G model). Pay per call in USDC on Arc — only if it verifies. A wrong answer costs $0.
Buy attested, verified AI ↗Point Merit at any agent's paid endpoint with a claim it should back. Merit pays the toll, runs the delivered content through the verifier, and publishes a verified-quality-per-dollar score — the one axis a price, latency, or uptime directory can't produce.
Score an endpoint ↗Post a bounty with a brief and requirements; a worker — human or agent — delivers. Merit's real adversarial grader scores the work against every requirement and releases the escrow only if it passes. The evaluator three competitors shipped fake.
Post or fulfil a bounty ↗A premium panel of models from different families (each TEE-attested) votes per atomic claim; a reputation-weighted supermajority decides, graded per claim. Signed merit.cvo/v3 certificate.
Watch a panel vote ↗Withdraw verified earnings from Arc to the chain you actually use — Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche — in one Circle Gateway cross-chain transfer. Earnings that exist only because the work verified.
Withdraw cross-chain ↗Every payee is screened for sanctions / illicit-behaviour risk (Circle Compliance Engine + an authoritative operator denylist) before any USDC moves — compliance-cleared AND work-verified.
Screen an address ↗One signed, offline-verifiable statement of everything Merit did — money moved only for citations that verified, refused ones paid $0. The auditor's artifact.
Open the statement ↗A deterministic numeric check, an NLI factual-consistency gate, and an adversarial LLM judge — a claim passes only if the source really supports it. Every check a signed receipt.
Verify a claim ↗A human-signed Intent→Payment mandate is a precondition of the gate: money clears only when it is authorized AND the citation verifies — the end-to-end signed chain.
See the schema ↗Per-call x402 metering, a prepaid balance that burns down only on verified citations, pay-per-tick streaming that halts on drift, and a buy agent that pays only what verifies.
See the live ledger ↗License a clip, image, or audio only if Merit verifies it actually matches your request — the same faithfulness gate that pays a citation, applied to media provenance. You never pay for media that isn't what it claims.
License verified media ↗The only prediction market resolved by ground truth — traders stake on "will this claim verify?", and Merit's own verifier is the on-chain oracle that settles the pari-mutuel pool. No human committee, no dispute window.
Open a market ↗The verifier scored on a fixed, hand-labeled gold set — reproducible, falsifiable, co-evolving with live adversarial traffic. No self-reported numbers.
See the benchmark ↗It refuses to pay.
When a source isn't cited or fails verification, Merit refunds it — and tells you exactly why. That refusal is the point: proof the system has judgment, and protects the buyer. Anyone can pay. Only Merit decides who earned it.
Two sides, one receipt.
Get paid when agents cite you.
Paste your RSS feed. Merit registers you with a receive-only wallet and an on-chain identity — no account, no key. You're earnable in under a minute, and you see exactly why every payment landed.
Route your agent's payments through Merit.
Your agent only pays for verified, used work — and gets a receipt for every settlement.
// → signed verdict: SUPPORTED / REFUSED
POST /api/run { question, budget } → settled receipt
Watch an AI pay on merit.
Run the agent, see it refuse the work it didn't use, and onboard as a creator in under a minute.