Researchers submitted a paper on 10 Sep 2026 proposing terms.txt, a robots.txt-style file for per-path, per-purpose machine-access terms, plus an origin-enforced exchange using Web Bot Auth signatures…
Argentic, a pseudonymous project by builder RevolutionaryTrash56, is testing whether AI agents will pay 10 satoshis via Bitcoin's Lightning Network for a one-hour proxy token, but after seven weeks li…
Lateos AI released a quality-controlled corpus of 8,438 SOAR security playbooks and threat-intel records, served to autonomous AI agents via an HTTP 402 Machine Payments Protocol that meters usage at …
Stripe and Tempo launched the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) in March 2026 as an open standard for machine-to-machine payments. The protocol uses HTTP 402 Payment Required to authenticate and authori…
Cloudflare and AWS now let website owners charge AI crawlers per request using HTTP 402, turning a dormant 1997 status code into a toll booth for machines. Cloudflare launched pay-per-crawl in July 20…
A developer designed a system using HTTP 402 Payment Required to let AI agents pay for API calls per use. The approach involves a gateway proxy that verifies budget-capped tokens, checks spending limi…
A solo developer built AOTrust, a service that cryptographically notarizes AI agent outputs for $0.01 per proof on Base L2. It issues a 239-byte Provenance Data Record (PDR) using the HTTP 402 payment…