AI agents dey reshape web economy; Cloudflare dey back x402 payments

For CoinDesk Consensus for Miami, Cloudflare Chief Strategy Officer Stephanie Cohen tok say AI agents dey knack traditional web economics as non-human traffic don pass human traffic. She mention say pass half of internet requests now na non-human and the growth dey quicken. Cohen say AI agents fit scrape and summarize content, keep users for inside chatbots and automated workflows instead of sending “return traffic” wey publishers dey monetize with ads, subscriptions, and commerce. Cloudflare response na network-layer control for AI agents: identify bots, verify intent and identity, then allow, block, or charge. For this stack, Cohen point to x402—open payments protocol around HTTP 402 “Payment Required.” She talk say Cloudflare dey see “one billion 402 responses” daily, and say x402 Foundation dey being developed with Coinbase. Cohen also highlight Cloudflare cryptographic Web Bot Auth and work with Visa and Experian to support agentic commerce while tie transactions to real humans. For traders, this na infrastructure story not immediate token-specific catalyst. But e still boost market interest for machine-to-machine payment rails like x402 and show potential demand growth if agent payments become reliably monetizable.