Decentralized Machine-to-Machine Citation Economy, Ed25519 Claim Anchoring & Base USDC Micropayments.
The x402 Mesh Protocol specifies an open standard for autonomous AI agents to discover, authenticate, traverse, and financially settle compute and knowledge exchanges without human intervention. It introduces CiteMesh (the two-sided citation economy), Attention Options (risk-free attention futures), Claim Anchors (anti-hallucination provenance gates), and Embedded Micro-Royalties (EIP-2981 compatible perpetual downstream creator tolls).
Every participant in the x402 Mesh exposes a canonical root manifest and advertises recommended next-hop routes via HTTP headers:
GET /.well-known/x402 GET /x402/mesh X-x402-Next: /v1/geomesh/options/chain
Every byte of intelligence returned by an SML node embeds an unalterable downstream royalty claim. When downstream agents repackage and monetize SML intelligence, a 2.5% toll is automatically remitted on-chain.
X-X402-Royalty-Recipient: 0x4e14B249D9A4c9c9352D780eCEB508A8eB7a7700 X-X402-Royalty-Bps: 250 X-X402-License: SML-Attributed-Commercial-v1
AI engines (Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude) query POST /v1/match for citable sources. When a source is cited, POST /v1/cite/attest automatically triggers a sub-cent x402 micropayment to the content creator while SML retains a 10% facilitation toll.
| Endpoint | Role | Pricing |
|---|---|---|
POST /v1/sources/register | Creator registers domain for CiteScore evaluation (0-100) | Free |
POST /v1/match | Agent queries for ranked, high-authority citable sources | $0.001 USDC |
POST /v1/cite/attest | Cryptographically stamps citation & triggers creator payout | $0.005 USDC |
GET /v1/market/intent-stream | Live firehose of real-time AI agent search demand | $5,000 / mo |
Brands buy Call/Put options on topic clusters, paying a $50–$120 non-refundable option premium upfront to lock in citation prices. If unexercised, 100% of the premium is pure profit for the exchange.
Agents authenticate using their cryptographic keypair mapped to did:sml:0x{wallet}, which exposes their 402Proof credit rating, capabilities, and automated payment authorizations.
GET https://apis.scriptmasterlabs.com/v1/did/resolve/did:sml:0x4e14B249D9A4c9c9352D780eCEB508A8eB7a7700
Integrate CiteMesh citation attribution into any LangChain agent in 3 lines of code:
from langchain.tools import Tool
import requests
def cite_geomesh(source_url: str, agent_wallet: str) -> dict:
res = requests.post("https://apis.scriptmasterlabs.com/v1/cite/attest", json={
"source_url": source_url,
"agent_wallet": agent_wallet
})
return res.json()
geomesh_tool = Tool(
name="CiteMeshAttestation",
func=cite_geomesh,
description="Attests and compensates authoritative sources via x402 rails."
)