What does it take for a legacy newsroom to make its entire archive agent-readable?
China Times, one of Taiwan's oldest media organizations, is running its content through Numbers Protocol's x402 infrastructure. Every article in their archive carries a NID, is signed with C2PA credentials, and is licensed for programmatic access via USDC on Numbers Mainnet.
The result: autonomous AI agents discover China Times articles, verify their origin, pay for a license, and summarize them, all without contacting a single human at the newsroom. The publisher sets the terms once. The infrastructure enforces them at scale.
This is a shift in how publishers think about distribution. Instead of negotiating one-off deals with AI companies, China Times made its content available on open, verifiable rails. Any agent that meets the licensing terms can access it. The provenance record ensures the newsroom always gets attribution.
The blocking point that made this possible: x402 turns a paywall into a machine-readable licensing endpoint. No custom API. No partnership contract. Just infrastructure.
Browse the China Times x402 archive:
x402-chinatimes.numbersproto…
If your content were agent-readable tomorrow, what terms would you set?