Morning Edition · Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Cloudflare Turns On Direct Agent-to-Website Payments at the Edge
The new layer lets AI agents pay sites directly using the x402 protocol, an attempt to give the agentic web a native payment system rather than relying on scraping free pages.
Cloudflare has rolled out a monetization layer for what it calls the agentic web, allowing AI agents to make direct payments to websites using the x402 protocol at the network edge, according to AI Post. The mechanism revives HTTP status co…
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