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Pay-per-Crawl

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

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

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forgemesh.io/blog/pay-per-crawl-every-stack

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