Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402 2026-07-01 7 min read Today, we are announcing the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway, an engine that will give Cloudflare customers the ability to charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare: web pages, datasets, APIs, or MCP tools.  It will provide a single control plane to manage payment policies and access controls across your applications, while also protecting your origin from high payment volumes by handling payment verification and enforcement at the edge. At launch, payments will settle in stablecoins over x402 , the open protocol we are building with a coalition of more than 25 industry leaders via the x402 Foundation .  The evolving business model of the web For 30 years, the web has run on a simple economic bargain: trading content for human attention. That attention has been monetized through advertising, subscriptions, and e-commerce.…