CitePay blocks bad citations before paying good ones
An AI tries to cite a quote that does not exist. CitePay catches it with deterministic span verification, pays nothing, then clears only the supported licensed claim.
Access and payment systems prove an agent paid. CitePay Clear proves a specific claim deserved payment before money moved.
Claim clearance, not just source access
The judge path checks three things competitors often separate: pre-payment refusal, creator payout, and post-answer recovery for citations generated outside CitePay.
High AI confidence cannot override a missing source span.
Creator payment appears only after quote, license, policy, and budget pass.
External answers can be audited without settlement, then settled only under a real mandate.
A normal paid-citation system may have paid this because the AI score is high. CitePay Clear refuses because the exact quote is absent from the source.
Same fake citation, two different outcomes
A payment-only citation flow can prove money moved. CitePay Clear proves the claim cleared evidence rules before money moved.
Basic citation payment
riskCitePay Clear
cleared or refusedIndependently verify
Nothing here needs to be trusted — read the code, check the contract, open the receipt.
Deterministic checks that run before any payment — no black box.
Cleared, paid claims settle here in real USDC — testnet, not mainnet.
Content hash, decision, and transaction on one public page.
Everything on this page is Arc Testnet. See /proof for the raw on-chain event feed, or /traction for aggregated totals (demo-traffic origin disclosed there).