A pay-per-read toll for the agentic web. Put it in front of a site and an AI agent pays a fraction of a cent in USDC to read or cite a page. It settles straight to the author. A human request passes through untouched.
Models consume writing at scale and pay nothing for it. The cost lands on the author, the benefit on the crawler. naulon flips that one exchange, and the toll is what keeps the work open: machines subsidize the free human read. The fare is the naulon, the old coin you paid to cross.
Attribution is the payout rule. An article's credits graph, who wrote it and in what proportion, is how the money splits — recursively, down to every author. No invoices, no manual payouts.
naulon is the gate itself, MIT and open
source. npx naulon init writes a working config; make demo runs the whole loop
offline.
naulon.app runs it for you if you'd rather not host a gate: a dashboard, payouts, and an MCP endpoint agents buy through. Docs · Pricing · Directory · Changelog
Built on Circle's nanopayment rail, Arc-first, over HTTP 402.