The Internet Was Supposed to Have a Pay Button. ClawPurse Finally Built It — for Machines.

In 1992, Tim Berners-Lee's team reserved HTTP status code 402 — Payment Required — for "future use." They knew the web would need native payments. They just didn't have the rails. Three decades later, we got ads. We got subscriptions. We got data harvesting at scale. But we never got the thing the web's architects imagined: a way for one machine to pay another machine, instantly, for a tiny piece of value. ClawPurse is an open-source micropayment ecosystem on the Neutaro blockchain that finally gives HTTP 402 a real job. A local encrypted wallet, an HTTP reverse proxy that gates any API behind on-chain micropayments, and an agent-friendly faucet — wired together so AI agents can discover a service, pay for it, and get the result without a human ever touching a form. The code is on GitHub. The sites are live. Here's how it works. The Stack ClawPurse Wallet — Self-Custodial Agent Treasury bashnpm install && npm run build && npm link clawpurse init --password clawpurse address clawpurse b