Integration layer
Connect CitePay to feeds, crawlers, and payment rails.
Use CitePay as a small service between source feeds and research agents: import source metadata, map payees, expose citation terms, and record payments when an agent cites.
Current readiness
- Data store
- supabase
- Payment mode
- circle
- Circle readiness
- configured
- Verified testnet
- $0.26
What the integration does
It keeps feed tooling familiar while payment details stay behind a narrow source-terms API.
RSSHub-compatible import
Map title, description, link, author, and category into a payable source record.
Crawler-boundary settlement
The crawler or research agent asks for payment metadata only when a source is likely to be cited.
Payee registry
Authors, source URLs, and optional wallet addresses stay in a practical operator ledger.
x402 challenge
Circle/x402 mode can return a payment challenge while simulation keeps demos safe.
Supabase ledger
Agent runs, citations, unlocks, and receipts persist outside the crawler.
Payee readiness
Real publishers do not all arrive wallet-ready.
CitePay separates citation accounting from final settlement. Registered authors can receive direct wallet payouts; everyone else can accrue claimable credit until ownership and payout details are verified.
Direct wallet
A verified source owner has a payout address and is eligible for live USDC settlement.
Claimable balance
An author or domain is known, but the wallet is missing or still being verified.
Platform test wallet
Test-wallet path for proving Circle/x402 behavior without counting it as creator payout.
Opt-out respected
Sources can be marked unavailable so the agent skips payment and citation use.
Integration shapes
Start as a sidecar. Grow into plugins.
The interface is intentionally small: source in, citation terms out, receipts back into the ledger.
Downstream proxy
Put CitePay after a feed fetcher and before the agent context builder.
Crawler middleware
Attach citation tokens as the crawler normalizes feed entries.
Sidecar service
Run CitePay next to RSSHub, FreshRSS, Miniflux, or an internal crawler.
Future upstream plugin/PR
Keep the interface small enough to upstream into feed tooling later.
Payment evidence
Circle/x402 proof without confusing it for author payout.
CitePay reconciles Circle Gateway transfer history into the Supabase ledger. The current evidence shows completed Arc Testnet movement to the platform test wallet, while settled author earnings remain separate.
Completed Gateway transfers
4
Reconciled from Circle history
Verified Circle testnet
$0.26
Arc Testnet / eip155:5042002
Settlement target
Platform test wallet
Payment-path proof, not author earnings
Evidence API
Recent payments
Non-secret transfer metadata
Operator API