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Humans read free. Machines pay.
A pay-per-read toll for AI agents. People read for free. Agents and crawlers get an HTTP 402 and pay a USDC nanopayment, which settles directly to the author's own Circle Gateway balance. Naulon never holds, pools or forwards authors' funds.
- We built
- Gate, API, dashboard
- We run
- The cloud it sits on
- Pays in
- USDC over x402
- AI agent to GateGET /article
- Gate to AI agent402 Payment Required: price, nonce
- AI agentsigns a USDC payment
- AI agent to GateGET + payment-signature
- Gate to Author's Gateway balancesettles USDC via Circle Gateway
- Gate to AI agent200 OK: the article
- Human to GateGET /article
- Gate to Human200 OK: free, untouched
Fig. 1. One request through the gate.