Saw Odaily on the topic: Cloudflare’s tokenized monetization gateway (Monetization Gateway) closed tests are live—websites can charge AI agents for requests, queries, or tokens using HTTP 402, with settlements made in $USDC pegged to the US dollar, running on the Base chain.
The use cases are laid out plainly: AI reasoning, web search, market signals, PDF generation, and similar services can all be billed by usage. In the past it was mostly ads or subscriptions; this time the agent itself pays with a stablecoin for “a crawl / a reasoning step” directly.
Infrastructure providers are embedding payments into HTTP, and tying AI traffic and on-chain settlement even more closely together. It’s still a closed test—let’s see how widely they roll it out.
#AI #Cloudflare #USDC #Base
The use cases are laid out plainly: AI reasoning, web search, market signals, PDF generation, and similar services can all be billed by usage. In the past it was mostly ads or subscriptions; this time the agent itself pays with a stablecoin for “a crawl / a reasoning step” directly.
Infrastructure providers are embedding payments into HTTP, and tying AI traffic and on-chain settlement even more closely together. It’s still a closed test—let’s see how widely they roll it out.
#AI #Cloudflare #USDC #Base
