Cloudflare launches Monetization Gateway for charging access to web pages, APIs, and datasets via stablecoin settlements
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Cloudflare announced the Monetization Gateway, a new platform that enables customers to charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare — including web pages, datasets, APIs, and MCP tools. It provides a unified control plane for managing payment policies and access controls, with payment verification and enforcement handled at the edge to protect origin servers. At launch, payments settle in stablecoins via the x402 open protocol, eliminating the need for customers to build their own payments infrastructure.
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· 3 pulledToday, we are announcing the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway, an engine that will give Cloudflare customers the ability to charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare: web pages, datasets, APIs, or MCP tools.
It will provide a single control plane to manage payment policies and access controls across your applications, while also protecting your origin from high payment volumes by handling payment verification and enforcement at the edge.
At launch, payments will settle in stablecoins over the x402 open protocol, with no payments stack of your own to build.
We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x402 open protocol, with no payments stack of your own t
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