A-Pay Web3 AI Paywall

A-Pay Web3 AI Paywall is an HTTP 402 Web3 micropayment gatekeeper for WordPress & WooCommerce that allows website owners to monetize autonomous AI crawlers, scrapers, and LLM bots (OpenAI GPTBot, Anthropic ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, ByteSpider, and Meta-ExternalAgent) on Base Layer 2.

🌟 Key Features

• 100% Free for Real Humans: Human visitors on desktop and mobile web browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge) browse your site completely free without any paywalls, popups, or captchas.
• SEO Protected: Googlebot, Bingbot, DuckDuckBot, and other search engines are automatically whitelisted so your search rankings and indexing remain completely intact.
• HTTP 402 Web3 Challenge Gate: Autonomous AI crawlers are presented with a cryptographic HTTP 402 Payment Required challenge specifying Base Layer 2 settlement details under EIP-712 standards.
• Voucher & Nonce Verification: Validates incoming Authorization headers, strictly checks payment amounts against required pricing, verifies EVM address formats, and enforces single-use session nonces to prevent replay attacks.
• Dual Settlement Rails: Accept USDC (Circle native) or $APAY protocol tokens on Base Mainnet (Chain ID 8453) or Base Sepolia Testnet (Chain ID 84532).
• Instant WordPress Setup: Zero complex coding required. Simply install, activate, paste your Base wallet address, and your content is protected immediately.

3rd Party Service Disclosure

This plugin interacts with external decentralized infrastructure and protocols to facilitate autonomous payments:

1. A-Pay Protocol Portal & Telemetry (https://apay-network.vercel.app):

   • Purpose: Provides developer protocol documentation, health probes, token contract verification, and EIP-712 scheme metadata.
   • Terms of Service: https://apay-network.vercel.app
   • Privacy Policy: https://apay-network.vercel.app

2. Base Layer 2 Decentralized Network (https://mainnet.base.org / https://sepolia.base.org):

   • Purpose: Used for on-chain cryptographic transaction verification and router contract settlement (0x71434344beEF9C44fF3BC95572bEB7bFB8847ec6).
   • Terms of Service: https://base.org