Pith Number

pith:J6C3PPQG

pith:2025:J6C3PPQG5PMKELT56JLU462N4L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Trade Networks and the Rise of a Dominant Currency

Lien Pham, Tomoo Kikuchi

arxiv:2505.22080 v2 · 2025-05-28 · econ.TH

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J6C3PPQG5PMKELT56JLU462N4L}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:44:49.072266Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f85b7be06ebd8a22e7df2574e7b4de2fb01dc3920dbdbe970b949265d2b7afd

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.22080 · arxiv_version: 2505.22080v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.22080 · pith_short_12: J6C3PPQG5PMK · pith_short_16: J6C3PPQG5PMKELT5 · pith_short_8: J6C3PPQG

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J6C3PPQG5PMKELT56JLU462N4L \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 4f85b7be06ebd8a22e7df2574e7b4de2fb01dc3920dbdbe970b949265d2b7afd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c84b94f65b4974e5371bf198c97dff89df74ad24742233fa706016c2bed6e54",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-28T08:00:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2373457adeaab37e0beae1eb3d12fdea2b2841396ddb6d62b95131fcf56d2a3f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.22080",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}