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AI · October 17, 2026

Pay-per-Crawl – make AI crawlers pay per page in USDC, for 10 stacks

One gate for AI crawlers on ten stacks: WordPress, Drupal, Laravel, Next.js, Node, Cloudflare, nginx, Caddy, Traefik, Python. USDC on Base, no custody.

Pay-per-Crawl – make AI crawlers pay per page in USDC, for 10 stacks launched on October 17, 2026 with 9 votes, #662 of 3,597 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Last night Pay-per-Crawl was a WordPress plugin that started as a comment on TikTok, with two real payments behind it. This afternoon the same gate runs on WordPress, Drupal, Laravel, Next.js, Node, Cloudflare, nginx, Caddy, Traefik and Python, and it is published on npm, PyPI, Packagist and drupal.org. Every edition settled two real payments on Base mainnet before we released it. We are proud of this one, so here is exactly what shipped and what it took. The behaviour is identical on every stack. Humans and reverse-DNS-verified search engines read free. AI crawlers, SEO crawlers and scripts get an HTTP 402 carrying an x402 v2 header, a v1 body and an MPP challenge. They pay USDC on Base,…from forgemesh.io

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