On July 1, 2026, Cloudflare announced in a blog post the "Monetization Gateway," which lets sites charge for web pages, APIs, datasets, and MCP tools using stablecoins over the open x402 payment protocol, and opened a waitlist for early access. It applies to any asset protected by Cloudflare, and customers do not need to build their own payment stack; instead, Cloudflare handles payment verification and enforcement at its edge while protecting the origin server (announcement blog).
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