Cloudflare

At a glance

What it is

Network and CDN that verifies signed agent traffic with Web Bot Auth, the authentication layer under Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol and Mastercard Agent Pay, and a co-developer of x402 with agent payment tooling in its Agents SDK.

Type

Rules or identity programme

Homepage

cloudflare.com

Last read

5 Nov 2026

What it does for this layer

• Cloudflare announced on 24 Oct 2025 that it is partnering with Visa and Mastercard to help secure agent commerce, with both networks using Web Bot Auth as the agent authentication layer. blog.cloudflare.com, read 5 Nov 2026, dated 24 Oct 2025.
• Cloudflare says it first proposed Web Bot Auth in May 2025 to authenticate agent traffic cryptographically, because user agent and IP address can be spoofed. blog.cloudflare.com, read 5 Nov 2026.
• Cloudflare says merchants rely on networks such as Cloudflare to verify an agent's cryptographic signatures, for both the browsing phase and the final payment interaction. blog.cloudflare.com, read 5 Nov 2026.
• Cloudflare's Web Bot Auth documentation says the method relies on two IETF drafts, one for a key directory and one for attaching identity to HTTP requests, and that Cloudflare supports the Ed25519 key algorithm. developers.cloudflare.com, read 5 Nov 2026.
• Cloudflare's Web Bot Auth documentation lists the steps for an agent operator as generating a signing key, hosting a key directory, registering the bot and directory, then signing requests. developers.cloudflare.com, read 5 Nov 2026.
• Cloudflare announced plans on 25 Sep 2025 for NET Dollar, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin intended for instant transactions on the agentic web. cloudflare.com, read 5 Nov 2026, dated 25 Sep 2025.
• The Linux Foundation names Cloudflare, with Coinbase and Stripe, as an initial developer of the x402 Foundation's work. linuxfoundation.org, read 5 Nov 2026, dated 2 Apr 2026. Secondary source
• Cloudflare's Agents documentation says the Agents SDK supports agentic payments through two protocols, x402 and the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP). developers.cloudflare.com, read 5 Nov 2026.
• The MPP site lists Cloudflare Agents among its partner integrations. mpp.dev, read 5 Nov 2026. Secondary source

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What it does not do

• Cloudflare does not issue payment credentials or process card payments; it verifies agent identity in front of the merchant.
• Cloudflare's NET Dollar was announced as a plan in September 2025, not as a live payment method.

Related pages on this site

• Visa Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP), protocol profile
• x402, protocol profile
• All rules and identity programmes in the vendors section
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