Submission + - Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar (cloudflare.com)
head_dunce writes: In a bold move, Cloudflare announced NET Dollar, a U.S. dollar–backed stablecoin designed to enable instant, secure transactions across the web — at “the speed of the Internet.”
Their pitch: as autonomous agents and AI tools increasingly mediate digital interactions (booking flights, procuring items, negotiating services), the financial rails must evolve accordingly. NET Dollar is meant to support microtransactions, pay-per-use models, and fractional payments in that ecosystem.
Cloudflare says this could shift the Internet’s monetization model away from ads and bulk payments toward rewarding originality, enabling new monetization paths for content creators, API providers, and AI systems.
The company is also contributing to open standards (like the Agent Payments Protocol) and positioning NET Dollar as a bridge between traditional financial systems and an “agentic web.”
Their pitch: as autonomous agents and AI tools increasingly mediate digital interactions (booking flights, procuring items, negotiating services), the financial rails must evolve accordingly. NET Dollar is meant to support microtransactions, pay-per-use models, and fractional payments in that ecosystem.
Cloudflare says this could shift the Internet’s monetization model away from ads and bulk payments toward rewarding originality, enabling new monetization paths for content creators, API providers, and AI systems.
The company is also contributing to open standards (like the Agent Payments Protocol) and positioning NET Dollar as a bridge between traditional financial systems and an “agentic web.”
