Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
Summary
Cloudflare announces the Monetization Gateway, enabling usage-based billing for any resource behind Cloudflare via the x402 protocol and stablecoins. The system provides a centralized policy engine, edge-validated payments, and API/Terraform-based control, enabling new revenue opportunities for APIs, data, and tools. It signals a shift toward agent-driven, pay-per-use web economics and lowers the barriers to implementing such billing for developers and SMBs.