Crypto tollbooth now gates AI bots crawling 20% of the internet

Coinbase and Cloudflare have created the x402 Foundation, an industry group that will build an open standard for machine-to-machine payments. The effort, unveiled Sept. 23, aims to give AI systems and digital agents a seamless way to transact value directly across the Internet. Cloudflare, which powers nearly a fifth of all websites, said the new The post Crypto tollbooth now gates AI bots crawling 20% of the internet appeared first on CryptoSlate.