free to read. paid to cite.
Every paper on bucket.foundation is free to read and priced once to cite. Each downstream citation pays the author over the x402 rail on Base.
Ask a research question; the agent plans, retrieves from the canon + live OpenAlex/PubMed + the atlas, routes it through real instruments, and writes a brief where every claim cites a source — or abstains. Reproducible.
Forty research instruments — protein stability, ADMET, ephys, RNA folding, literature/agent tools over live OpenAlex — run on your input and publish to canon.
The research-atlas tables as open datasets: funders, grants, organizations, people, fields. Free to read, born with a real DOI.
The reconciled research-economy graph — 73 funders, ~958k grants, ~$658B, ~8.1M rows. The source behind every dataset and paper.
Four metascience papers on the research-atlas graph — funding structure, paper-ranking, funder specialization, funding & careers. Free to read, each born with a real DOI.
The education-atlas corpus — Bucket's founding education-reform research, led by The Knowledge-Access Gradient. Three crises, a 270× access cliff, the consume-vs-produce gap. Free to read.
A K-12 research workspace over the same graph. The AI finds, quotes, checks, and organizes; the learner writes. Five states per concept, a teacher view, and student productions that enter the graph as citable nodes.