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Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

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Re: Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

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Post by petcat »

> NEW YORK – MCP Dev Summit North America – April 2, 2026 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it is launching the x402 Foundation with the contribution of the x402 protocol from Coinbase. The new Foundation will serve as the neutral home for x402, a universal standard for payments that embeds payments directly into web interactions, enabling AI agents, APIs, and apps to transact value as seamlessly as they exchange data.

Apparently I missed this initiative. It seems like it is a technology that is intended to be open an universal while also being supported and developed primarily by US companies (Linux Foundation, Coinbase, CloudFlare.)

Re: Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

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Post by dist-epoch »

petcat wrote: post #4

> NEW YORK – MCP Dev Summit North America – April 2, 2026 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it is launching the x402 Foundation with the contribution of the x402 protocol from Coinbase. The new Foundation will serve as the neutral home for x402, a universal standard for payments that embeds payments directly into web interactions, enabling…

WHATWG, who sets the HTML standard:

> The central organizational membership and control of WHATWG – its "Steering Group" – consists of Apple, Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft.

Re: Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

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Post by dist-epoch »

holistio wrote: post #3

how will the end user pay? will we all have stablecoin wallets installed?

article says it's mostly for agents, users will not be directly involved

> At the same time, an agent can make thousands of micropayments without friction, while asking a person to approve each payment would be impossibly burdensome.

but yes, they will need wallets

but it's also optional, you do not want to buy these paid for requests, you do not need a wallet

Re: Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

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Post by titanomachy »

holistio wrote: post #3

how will the end user pay? will we all have stablecoin wallets installed?

I assume that if this catches on then the agents will have their own wallets and deduct fees from your account credit, just like with API-based usage. So the way you interact with them won't change, from your POV they'll just get more expensive.

Re: Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

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Post by bilekas »

Am I understanding this correct in that you can basically automate monetizing your web/api content to everyone or just agents ? Because I would be very much in support of charging agents per request, but I would want to still offer humans a free experience.
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