Tokenized Podcast(@TokenizedPod):Agent traffic is starting to outpace human traffic on the internet, and that breaks the old ad model for publishers. @cuysheffield on the latest episode of Tokenized with cohost @sytaylor and guests @natalyathakur and @TuongvyLe12 said: Cloudflare's answer is a payment gate for bots. Block them, or let them crawl for a fee. “Yeah sure you can crawl my site but I'm gonna charge you one cent or 2 cents you know for doing that.” The harder problem sits on the buy side. Give an agent its own wallet, spun up from a parent account, so it can pay its way across the web when it hits a paywall. 🎙️ Listen to the latest on tokenizedpod(dot)com

2026.08.11 16:21

Agent traffic is starting to outpace human traffic on the internet, and that breaks the old ad model for publishers. @cuysheffield on the latest episode of Tokenized with cohost @sytaylor and guests @natalyathakur and @TuongvyLe12 said: Cloudflare's answer is a payment gate for bots. Block them, or let them crawl for a fee. “Yeah sure you can crawl my site but I'm gonna charge you one cent or 2 cents you know for doing that.” The harder problem sits on the buy side. Give an agent its own wallet, spun up from a parent account, so it can pay its way across the web when it hits a paywall. 🎙️ Listen to the latest on tokenizedpod(dot)com