What a paid read costs

No re-platforming. Claim a naulon.app subdomain and you are tollable in minutes with nothing to install. To use your own domain you add one DNS record to verify it — your site keeps running exactly where it does now, and the toll runs at the edge in front of it.▍

The buyer pays straight to a wallet you control, in USDC, the moment the toll clears. We never hold it, so there is no payout step and no balance on our side. If that wallet is the one you created here with a passkey, the money sits in it under your key until you move it out.▍

Settlement is buyer to author, on-chain, in one payment. The funds never land with us. The operator fee is designed as its own transfer in that same quote, never a cut of a pool we hold. Custody-free is the whole point: because the money never sits with us, there is nothing for us to hold.▍

No. The gate’s classifier tolls only automated agents, so the people who visit your site read free.▍

No payment, no read. The gate returns a 402 and only serves the page after the x402 payment is verified, so an unpaid request never gets past the toll and never reaches your dashboard as earnings.▍

Settlement runs on Base, in USDC, using the x402 standard. You receive the full settlement amount — the toll you set is what lands, with no network fee taken out of it.▍

Both. Toll your entire site — every page charges AI crawlers, while feeds, sitemaps and static files stay free — or list just the sections your articles live under and leave everything else open. You choose per site.▍

Each author registers their own wallet. When a piece with several authors is paid for, the settlement splits at the source: each co-author’s share goes straight to their wallet on-chain. There is no pool we hold and divide later — the money never lands with us.▍

You set a base toll per read and a citation multiplier. A citation is charged at the base times the multiplier, and you choose both.▍

Two ways. The money is custody-free: platforms that act as merchant of record hold your funds and pay them out, while naulon settles buyer to author directly and is never in the path. And it pays the author, not just the domain — down to per-citation splits between co-authors. You also self-host from your own origin instead of routing through a proxy.▍

Speak x402: request the page, get a 402 carrying the payment requirements, pay in USDC, and the content comes back with a signed license your agent can present. If you'd rather not build the payment loop, the hosted MCP server and the ask API do it for you, under a budget you set. The directory lists what's readable.▍

Every new site starts on Studio, and Studio bills nothing until agents have paid you $50 in total through naulon. Once you cross that line it's $19 a month until you cancel, and the charge starts by itself — you don't have to ask for it, and we don't ask you first. Cancelling is one click and drops you to Single site, which is free. The $50 is lifetime, not per month, so a quiet month never costs you anything.▍

No. Your share settles into your Circle Gateway balance — one USDC balance that works across every supported chain — so your payout wallet does not need to hold anything upfront, and you can withdraw on whichever chain you like.▍