A citation is staked
An author files the cited sentence together with its source - an arXiv preprint, a journal article, a dataset. A 0.001 GEN stake accompanies the filing.
Vol. I · Issue 1ISSN 2026-LEMM · Bradbury TestnetMay 22, 2026
Lemma
A standing court
for the scientific record
The replication crisis is also a citation crisis. A 2024 meta-study in Nature found that roughly two in three published papers contain at least one citation whose source does not say what the citing sentence claims it does. Lemma is a register of record for that problem - a standing court that reads the paper before the citation is filed.
- From the editors
A submitted claim receives a verdict from a jury of independent validators who fetch the cited source, read it, and reach consensus on whether the claim is faithfully supported by the page it points to.
Verdicts are permanent.
Citations are accountable.
The jury reads the paper
Five independent validators fetch the cited manuscript, read it under the equivalence principle, and reach consensus on whether the citing sentence is faithful to its source.
The verdict enters the record
A permanent verdict - verified, partially verified, misrepresented, unsupported, or unverifiable - is written to chain. Authors may cite it; reviewers may appeal it.
Recent verdicts
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