Paid live context for AI agents.
Obolus lets agents buy fresh context assets, reason over what is worth paying for, and pay creators when their work grounds an answer.
Agents hallucinate when context is stale.
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and custom agents can move fast, but they still rely on whatever context they were given. In crypto, documentation, testnets, contract addresses, API behavior, and examples change constantly. Obolus gives agents a paid path to fresh, owned context before they answer or build.
Stale context
Agents reuse old package names, old RPCs, old examples, deprecated flows, and second-hand summaries.
Unpaid owners
The people who publish useful benchmarks, guides, security notes, feeds, and datasets rarely get paid when agents rely on them.
Weak proof
A normal answer does not show what was bought, what was skipped, which claims were grounded, or where the money went.
How Obolus works
Ask with a budget
A human or agent submits a question and spending cap.
Discover context
Obolus searches registered articles, benchmarks, feeds, notes, transcripts, API results, and other owned context assets.
Decide pay or skip
The agent reasons over relevance, freshness, redundancy, and price.
Pay and acquire
Selected assets are unlocked through x402 and Circle Gateway on Arc.
Attribute and settle
The final answer maps claims to verbatim quotes and pays royalties by contribution.
Publish receipt
Every run creates a portable receipt: decisions, tolls, quotes, weights, royalties, and Gateway proof.
Not a spinner. A visible agent economy.
Every run exposes the decisions judges need to see: what was discovered, what was paid, what was skipped, what settled in Gateway, and which creators earned royalties.
For AI agents
Fetch context before acting. Get a compact, quote-backed bundle with payment receipts.
For developers
Run Obolus before Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or custom agents to reduce stale implementation details and hallucinated SDK usage.
For creators
Register owned writing, datasets, protocol notes, benchmarks, or feeds. Earn when agents access and cite your work.
Search returns links. Obolus settles knowledge.
Normal AI answer
- no context payment
- no pay/skip reasoning
- no budget discipline
- no creator payout
- no receipt
- stale context risk
Obolus
- budgeted context buying
- visible marginal-value reasoning
- x402 tolls
- contribution-weighted royalties
- Circle settlement ids, live Gateway balances, withdrawal tx proof
- reusable context receipts
Built on agent-native payment rails.
x402
HTTP-native paid access for context endpoints.
Circle Gateway
Gasless sub-cent USDC payments and batched settlement.
Arc
Stablecoin-native settlement for agent payments.
Structured agent decisions
Pay/skip plans are produced from free metadata before full content is unlocked.
Receipts
Every run records decisions, settlements, attribution, live Gateway balances, and withdrawal proof.
The receipt is the artifact.
Obolus does not ask users to trust an answer. Each run creates a receipt showing the query, budget, selected context, skipped context with reasons, toll payments, contribution weights, royalties, live Gateway balances, and withdrawal proof.
Arc/x402 builders
Get fresh implementation context before coding.
Protocol teams
See which context agents actually buy, skip, cite, and reward.
Independent researchers
Earn when your work grounds answers.
AI agents
Buy only the context worth paying for, then explain the decision.
Hackathon judges
Inspect every decision and payment without needing a live demo call.
Run a query. Watch the agent spend.
Obolus turns context into a paid, cited, inspectable workflow.