Cloudflare opens stablecoin wallet handles for AI agents, letting software pay for APIs and MCP tools without human approval as it builds the buy side of x402 payments.
Cloudflare started rolling out stablecoin wallets for AI agents on Tuesday, opening the identity layer of a product that will eventually let software buy APIs, MCP tools, and web content without a human approving each purchase. Account holders can claim a wallet handle at cloudflare.pay now. Funding and spending arrive later.
The design separates humans from machines. Account Wallets belong to people and organizations, which add funds, delegate spending, and withdraw. Virtual Wallets are issued to agents and operate through API keys, with the owner setting an allowance, an allow list, and a maximum transaction size. Payments settle in stablecoins over x402, the open protocol that attaches payment instructions to an ordinary HTTP request and returns a 402 Payment Required response carrying the price.
Cloudflare says it fronts about one in five websites, and it now controls both sides of the transaction after opening the waitlist for its Monetization Gateway, which lets site owners charge per request, on July 1. Every merchant that switches the gateway on becomes somewhere these wallets can spend.
Cloudflare commits to onramps and offramps in supported geographies, with self-funding via stablecoins for eligible users.
The company announced the x402 Foundation with Coinbase last September, added x402 support to its Agents SDK and MCP servers, and has worked with Visa, Mastercard, and American Express on standards for identifying trusted agents. The Linux Foundation agreed to host the standard earlier this year, and Stripe and Paradigm's Tempo chain shipped a competing agent payment protocol in March. For context on the broader race to build crypto payment infrastructure, see crypto market analysis.
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