Cloudflare just picked x402 as their payment rail for AI agent requests — and they're defaulting to $BASE in their docs.

The numbers: x402 on Base did $1.15M across 2.5M txs in 30 days.

This isn't some experiment. Cloudflare sits in front of a massive chunk of the internet. If they're charging AI agents per request and routing it through Base, we're watching the internet's paywall infrastructure get built in real time.

Base isn't just a meme chain anymore. It's becoming the settlement layer for machine-to-machine payments at scale.

Watch x402 volume. This could be the quiet alpha everyone sleeps on while chasing the next dog coin.