ProductPayments / Crypto
x402 Protocol
Open protocol for machine-to-machine payments over HTTP using the 402 status code.
Made by x402 Foundation
Covered in 1 article · July 2026
Coverage
Jul 2, 2026
When Agents Are the Readers: The Toll Layer for Machine-Consumed Knowledge Is Being Built at the Edge
Cloudflare's new Monetization Gateway will let sites charge any agent per request in stablecoin over x402. The plumbing is real, the demand mostly isn't. The fight that matters is who controls access to what agents read.
Jul 2, 2026 · By Matt Walters · 8 min read