Pith Number

pith:MUERST36

pith:2026:MUERST36ULC4DDFCVBZG2SAAQN

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Turning Trust to Transactions: Tracking Affiliate Marketing and FTC Compliance in YouTube's Influencer Economy

Chen Sun, Rishab Nithyanand, Yash Vekaria, Zubair Shafiq

arxiv:2603.04383 v2 · 2026-03-04 · cs.CY · cs.CR · cs.IR · cs.LG · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MUERST36ULC4DDFCVBZG2SAAQN}

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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	2026-05-22T02:04:40.323849Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6509194f7ea2c5c18ca2a8726d48008342deee1ed7897ed3d7b53fb400baca23

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.04383 · arxiv_version: 2603.04383v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.04383 · pith_short_12: MUERST36ULC4 · pith_short_16: MUERST36ULC4DDFC · pith_short_8: MUERST36

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MUERST36ULC4DDFCVBZG2SAAQN \
  | 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: 6509194f7ea2c5c18ca2a8726d48008342deee1ed7897ed3d7b53fb400baca23

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7cd9a9d14bb2a05c86ce85e86c80f87eb922fa8a3eb85cff085fdfe2917ef79c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.IR",
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-04T18:47:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae777d08437dc632b53835e8fbba6f3946f080b7385bd0480a9f331d26e302e0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.04383",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}