--- title: Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet... description: Cloudflare has announced Cloudflare Wallets, a programmable payment and identity system designed for AI agents. The system introduces two wallet types: Account... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-cloudflare-wallets-the-programmable-wallet-for-the-agentic-internet-ytlwjukcf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic Internet | daily.dev og:description: Cloudflare has announced Cloudflare Wallets, a programmable payment and identity system designed for AI agents. The system introduces two wallet types: Account... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-cloudflare-wallets-the-programmable-wallet-for-the-agentic-internet-ytlwjukcf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YTLwjukcF.png og:image:alt: Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic Internet og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic Internet **[Cloudflare](https://daily.dev/sources/cloudflare)** · 8 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cloudflare has announced Cloudflare Wallets, a programmable payment and identity system designed for AI agents. The system introduces two wallet types: Account Wallets for human owners and Virtual Wallets for agents. Using the x402 protocol, agents can autonomously pay for APIs, MCP tools, and content via stablecoin micropayments without human intervention. Virtual Wallets operate within configurable guardrails — spending caps, allowlists, and maximum transaction sizes — so agents can explore and evaluate services safely. The system also provides agents with human-readable identities via cloudflare.pay handles, linking agent actions to a Cloudflare account. This pairs with the previously announced Monetization Gateway to form a two-sided headless marketplace for agentic commerce. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Cloudflare Wallets and how does it let AI agents pay for APIs? Cloudflare Wallets is a new system letting AI agents autonomously purchase APIs, MCP tools, and content using stablecoin micropayments over the x402 protocol. There are two wallet types: Account Wallets for human owners to fund and manage, and Virtual Wallets for agents that operate via API keys with owner-defined spending caps, allow lists, and transaction limits. _Developers wiring agent payments into their stack can track x402 and wallet updates on daily.dev._ ### How do Virtual Wallets limit an AI agent's spending in Cloudflare Wallets? Virtual Wallets are capped by limits set in the owner's Account Wallet, such as a maximum allowance, an allow list of approved services, and a maximum transaction size. If an agent exceeds its limit, it can request a manual override from an authorized human, letting agents explore many services autonomously while bounding financial risk. _Teams designing safe autonomous spending policies for agents can follow this kind of guardrail design on daily.dev._ ### What is the x402 protocol used for in Cloudflare's agentic payment system? The x402 protocol attaches payments directly to HTTP requests, enabling micropayments for things like AI inference, data access, or content without traditional account signup. Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway and Wallets both rely on x402 so agents can pay per-request with stablecoins instead of navigating human-oriented signup and billing flows. _Anyone evaluating machine-native payment protocols like x402 can keep tabs on the ecosystem via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Building an open Agentic Internet: readable, discoverable, callable, and payable](https://daily.dev/posts/building-an-open-agentic-internet-readable-discoverable-callable-and-payable-quu3lagll) · Cloudflare · 5 upvotes · 1 comments - [Are we ready to give AI agents the keys to the cloud? 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