x402

x402

Accept and make machine-to-machine payments using the x402 HTTP payment protocol on Cloudflare Workers and the Agents SDK.

Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x402 open protocol, with no payments stack of your own to build.

Pay from Agents SDK

Use withX402Client to pay for resources from a Cloudflare Agent.

Google launches new protocol for agent-driven purchases | TechCrunch

Called the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), the system is meant to be interoperable between AI platforms, payment systems, and vendors.

Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic Internet

Cloudflare Wallets will provide AI agents with native payments and verifiable identity on the web. Using the x402 protocol, agents can autonomously purchase APIs and content within clear safety guardrails.

Best Payment Processor for Adult Sites - Signature Payments

Discover the best payment processor for adult sites in 2025. Learn how Signature Payments provides secure, compliant, and tailored high-risk payment solutions for the adult industry.

Best Payment Gateways for Adult Entertainment and Merchant Accounts 2026

Discover the best payment processors and merchant accounts for adult entertainment businesses. Find secure payment processing solutions for high-risk adult merchants and sites.

Payline Data - Payment Processing Solutions

Secure payment processing solutions for your business. Accept online payments, in-person payments, and recurring payments with Payline Data.

Global Payments API: Send & Receive Money | Wise Platform

Wise Platform offer domestic and cross-border payments tools for technology platforms, banks and fininical institutions.

7 Best Payment Gateways for Adult Sites in 2025 | ATLOS

Discover the 7 best payment gateways for adult sites. Our guide reviews top processors for high-risk businesses, helping you find a reliable solution.

AP2/docs/ap2/specification.md at main · google-agentic-commerce/AP2

Building a Secure and Interoperable Future for AI-Driven Payments. - google-agentic-commerce/AP2

juspay/hyperswitch

Open source, composable payments platform | PCI compliant | SaaS and Self-host options | Enables connectivity to multiple payment, payout, fraud, vault and tokenization providers | Uplifts authorization with intelligent routing and revenue recovery | Reduce payment processing costs with cost observability | Reduces payment ops with reconciliation

The Agentic Web and Original Sin

Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.

Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that comprises private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information services and resources, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, discussion groups, internet telephony, streaming media and file sharing.

Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards

This document discusses aspects of centralization that relate to Internet standards efforts. It argues that, while standards bodies have a limited ability to prevent many forms of centralization, they can still make contributions that assist in the decentralization of the Internet.