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Cloudflare Put a 402 Paywall Behind Every Domain. The Rail Was Never the Hard Part.

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On 2026-09-30 Cloudflare opened a closed beta of its Monetization Gateway . It lets a domain owner charge agents per request over HTTP 402, settled in USDC on Base, through Coinbase's x402 Facilitator. We have settled on exactly that rail since we launched. So the interesting question is not whethe…

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  1. 2026-10-02 23:29 · DEV Community — AI
    Cloudflare Put a 402 Paywall Behind Every Domain. The Rail Was Never the Hard Part.

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