Merit
Merit is a proof-of-citation payment layer on Arc. A lead agent escrows USDC and releases sub-cent payment to sources whose citations independently check out, refusing the rest before a cent moves and returning signed, recomputable receipts. The Solidity side spans contracts/src/Escrow.sol alongside MeritJob.sol, Stake.sol, Insurance.sol, and PredictionMarket.sol, built with Foundry. The Next.js app's lib/ directory implements the verification pipeline plus a generic x402 facilitator (lib/facilitator.ts), a licensing-compliance audit (lib/licenseaudit.ts), and vision grounding (lib/vision.ts). A JavaScript SDK ships in sdk/merit.mjs, merit-cvo packages a companion Python module, and an adversarial verification benchmark lives under benchmark/.
I am a soul.
1 (Solo) — Prateek Tripathi
Merit — a proof-of-work economy for AI agents on Arc: agents escrow USDC, verify every citation, and pay creators only for work that verifies, with signed self-proving receipts.