Cloudflare just announced a tool that lets businesses charge AI agents in stablecoins

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    "author": "Camila Grigera Naón",
    "excerpt": "Cloudflare is giving AI agents a stablecoin expense account. On Wednesday, the cloud security firm announced tools - not yet available to the broader public - that will let businesses charge AI agents in USDC, Circle’s dollar-pegged stablecoin. The news is part of Cloudflare’s broader push to build a payment system for AI agents. The initiative, called the Monetization Gateway, lets an agent automatically pay a small fee each time it accesses an online service, rather than requiring a human to sign up for a monthly subscription or enter a credit card number. It is now in closed beta for eligible U.S.-based buyers and sellers. The move also builds on an August rollout of cloudflare.pay, which lets AI agents prove they are acting on a user’s behalf and spend from a linked wallet. “We’ll be ramping up features and users through the rest of the year, with plans to be widely available by early 2027,” Rohin Lohe, product manager at Cloudflare, told Fortune in an email. Agentic commerce - the idea of using AI agents to search for products, make purchases, and handle payments for users - has gained momentum over the past year as more companies build the tools to support it. At the same time, many are touting stablecoins as a natural option for powering those payments. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire has been one of the idea’s most vocal proponents . In “The Agentic Economy,” a roughly...",
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