Morning Edition · Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Cloudflare Opens a Stablecoin Payment Rail for AI Agents at the Network Edge
The Monetization Gateway lets any page, dataset, API, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool behind Cloudflare charge agents in stablecoins over the x402 protocol, with no accounts or API keys.
Cloudflare has begun rolling out a Monetization Gateway that lets sites charge AI agents directly, settling payments in stablecoins over the x402 protocol at the network edge, as flagged by AI Post. The scheme builds on HTTP status code 402…
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