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A project called Pay-per-Crawl was shared on Hacker News that enables AI crawlers to pay per page using USDC (a stablecoin) across 10 blockchain stacks. The post appears to be a demonstration or announcement of this payment mechanism, though no additional details about its implementation or current status were provided in the available reports.
This addresses a potential mechanism for compensating content creators when AI systems crawl their pages, using blockchain-based payments. It could influence how web scraping economics work as AI systems scale.
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