Keryx
🥇 Lepton Awards · 1st place ✨ standalone
Arc mainnet
Keryx makes citation itself the payment event. An autonomous reading agent in lib/agent/run-agent.ts decomposes a question, discovers sources, and decides BUY, SKIP or CACHE per source with a plain-language rationale, paying an x402 toll for each paid read. After synthesizing a cited answer it weighs each source's real contribution and settles weighted USDC micropayments to creator wallets, with multi-author splits from lib/payments/split-allocation.ts. Browsers co-sign under a funded, non-custodial spending cap via lib/payments/browser-cosign-gateway.ts, and lib/payments/client-payto-allowlist.ts checks every payee against on-chain registry authority. Creators register sources through SourceRegistry (contracts/source-registry.sol), deployed and source-verified on Arc mainnet at 0x42a64061b6cd84067bb660b2a9b8aa881fd225bb. Crossref and arXiv originals are read natively, and reports export to Markdown, BibTeX, RIS and CSL-JSON via lib/research-citation-export.ts. The keryx-mcp package under mcp/ brings the buy-read-cite-settle loop to any MCP client with caller-funded payments, beside a Tauri desktop app, a Chrome extension and chat adapters for Discord, Slack and Telegram.
deployed on Arc mainnet · chain 5042| Contract | Address | Proof |
|---|---|---|
| SourceRegistry | 0x42a64061b6cd84067bb660b2a9b8aa881fd225bb | Blockscout ✓ |
Solo engineer · agents, x402, infra · ContribAI author · available for contract work
1 (Solo) — Tang Vu - Solo builder
Research agent for developers and researchers: cited reports, visible BUY/SKIP/CACHE decisions, and USDC rewards for eligible creators. Web, Windows, CLI, MCP/API. Arc mainnet with Circle Gateway/x402. Review guide: docs/reviewer-start.md.