Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has proposed using stablecoin micropayments to address the economic challenges posed by AI bots consuming online content. In a recent interview, Prince highlighted the limitations of the current ad-and-subscription model, which fails to compensate content creators when non-human agents browse the web. He suggested a 'pay for crawl' model using HTTP 402 responses and stablecoin micropayments to allow AI systems to pay publishers and infrastructure providers. Prince emphasized the need for a payment system capable of handling massive volumes of tiny transactions, as traditional payment rails are impractical for this purpose. Cloudflare, which processes approximately 500 million requests per second, estimates that 1% to 10% of these could be monetizable under the proposed model. Prince's vision includes maintaining free access for human users while AI agents embed microtransactions to compensate content creators, positioning Cloudflare as a key coordinator in this evolving internet landscape.