Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay, a new suite of tools designed to give AI agents a stable identity and the ability to make purchases online safely within limits set by their human creators. This marks a significant step toward enabling agentic commerce—where software programs autonomously browse, query APIs, and transact on behalf of individuals and businesses.
As AI agents become a normal part of doing business online, the Internet—built for humans—lacks reliable mechanisms to verify whether an agent is a legitimate assistant or a malicious actor. Traditional bot detection tools, designed for search crawlers, are inadequate for agents that conduct transactions. Cloudflare’s solution addresses this by providing a verifiable link between each agent and its human or organizational owner, establishing trust and accountability at every step.
“The Internet is shifting from human-driven browsing to agent-driven commerce, and the infrastructure needs to keep up,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “When an agent shows up at your door, you need to know who sent it. Cloudflare can give agents a face—a link to the human or organization that owns them—so that trust, accountability, and real commerce can follow. It’s the identity and payment infrastructure the agentic web needs to function.”
Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay work together to solve the identity and payment challenge. Each Cloudflare account will receive a unique web address serving as a stable ID, which users can extend to specific agents. This allows any receiving business to see exactly who authorized the agent. Additionally, a Cloudflare “Account Wallet” acts as a central balance for receiving, holding, and managing stablecoins. Users can then assign “Virtual Wallets” to individual agents, each with built-in guardrails such as spending caps, approved merchant lists, and maximum transaction sizes. Combined with the Monetization Gateway, these tools complete the two-sided agentic payment market.
Cloudflare Wallet handle reservation opens today. Full wallet access, including onramping and offramping funds and the ability to issue Virtual Wallets, will be available in the coming months. Users can claim a handle at cloudflare.pay and learn more on the Cloudflare blog.
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