Agent Payments @Cloudflare. Previously Co-founder @Syndicateio. ETH since the 2014 presale. Creator of $AGLD, Core Team ConstitutionDAO
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2012
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Come say hi if you are in SF for Cloudflare Connect and want to chat about agentic payments, stablecoins, or x402!
We’ll also have an x402 talk and demo at 2:30 PM today
Agentic Supply Co. is now open at #CloudflareConnect, thanks to our partners at @privy_io.
Browse a curated collection of exclusive Cloudflare and Privy merch in the Moscone West lobby.
We’ll even drop $10 in your Cloudflare Wallet. You can reserve your handle at cloudflare.pay.
Ethereum using non-standard cryptography a second time around (for post-quantum) would be a big mistake
We could have had every iPhone act as a hardware wallet with Apple Wallet support if Ethereum had used standardized cryptography. Let’s fix this now instead of repeating it
For high performance blockchains, indexing and querying data quickly becomes the bottleneck. It doesn’t matter if your chain runs at 1M TPS if your data can only be ingested at 100K TPS
Excited for this launch from @commonwarexyz! @exowarexyz is an important solution to this
At Frontiers this morning, we launched our first two @exowarexyz products: log + store
Stream and index a stupid amount of data in realtime (~20-40ms cross-AZ durability at 5M keys/sec) for cheap 💸
Enable stablecoin micropayments with one click on @Cloudflare via Monetization Gateway!
Allow humans and charge bots, or charge everyone. The config is up to you 🫡
DM for access (US-only for now)
Congrats to @rohinlohe @caleb__guy @degen_adjacent @jsilv_a on the launch!
The Cloudflare Monetization Gateway is now available in Closed Beta. 💰
This means that sites can charge AI agents per request, query, or token using HTTP 402, without building separate payment infrastructure.
4 ways it’s being used today. ⬇️
blog.cloudflare.com/monetiza…
Had a wonderful time talking with @laurashin about agent payments!
The web has already shifted from majority humans to majority bots
Building sites that account for agents as potential buyers will become vital for the future
Cloudflare analysis says non-human traffic now dominates the web, which is problematic for publishers as bots don't click ads. 🤖
@WillPapper’s fix: micropayments that charge the bots.
I love that apps like these are now possible for solo devs. Fun experiences that would have taken a team multiple months can be done far faster with the latest models (+Cloudflare to make the backend easy to iterate on)
Very impressed by the level of polish from @BraydenWilmoth!
Introducing Townies – a relaxing place where up to 50 players can keep a quaint, yet blossoming, town thriving.
Built on Workers & Durable Objects. Watch others in the town mow grass, deliver papers, clean up trash, picnic at the park, or buy a house.
townies.town
The Jolt team is one of the best in zkVMs. They’ve been building from scratch via first principles for years. They’ve hit a big milestone with post-quantum support
Congrats to @SuccinctJT, @a16zcrypto, and @LayerZero_Core on the milestone! A huge contribution to the industry.
1/ Today we're releasing Lattice Jolt: a post-quantum version of the Jolt zkVM, built on lattices instead of elliptic curves. It's _faster_ than curve-based Jolt and has the shortest proofs of any post-quantum zkVM — under 100 KB.
Post: a16zcrypto.com/posts/article…
Cloudflare requires high throughput chains in an unprecedented way. If we monetize even a tiny fraction of HTTP requests, we exceed the throughput of all existing blockchains combined
I am spending a lot of time on this as part of my work at Cloudflare. DM me if you want to jam!
“We need something that’s literally three orders of magnitude larger than Visa.”
@eastdakota says an agentic internet could require roughly 10 million tiny financial transactions every second.
Here is the full episode hosted by @JasonYanowitz for anyone who wants to dive deeper:
xitter.cf/theempirepod/status/20…
NEW POD with @Cloudflare CEO
We Cover:
– More agents than humans
– Can the internet survive 1,000x traffic?
– AI flattening corporate orgs
– Bots don’t click ads
– Do agents need blockchains?
@JasonYanowitz @eastdakota
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:45 How The Internet Got Here
05:52 Did Ads Break Society?
10:20 Why AI Labs Fear Google
16:59 What Cloudflare Actually Does
19:56 Ads (Token2049, Avalanche Summit)
21:35 When Cloudflare Went AI-First
27:20 AI Is Flattening Companies
35:39 What Happens To Human Work?
39:18 Why Public Markets Work Better
43:59 Who Pays For The Agent Internet?
54:08 Do Agents Need Blockchains?
01:01:09 What Breaks In The Agent Internet?
01:07:30 Will AI Become The Internet?
What is the steel man case for the privacy benefits of local inference?
In my mind, it’s not hard to build preprocessing pipelines to filter out private data. For data like my inbox, I have Claude write a script first that filters for only the relevant data
Why go fully local?
It’s hard to imagine a use case that is so important that it must be local-only, but also tolerant of the worse model quality that you get from this route
Why buy the Mac Studio when it’s an awkward middle ground of great privacy but worse model quality?
The line between bots and humans is blurring. What is an agent that is acting at a human’s direction?
Is it a bot because it’s automated, a human because it’s directed by one, or a completely new paradigm?
Agents need a web that is readable, discoverable, callable, and payable.
Agents are a new kind of visitor. They don't render CSS or click ads, but they have a paying human on the other end. Block them and you block your customer. We're building the open tools and protocols so publishers and agents can cooperate and not collide. cfl.re/4z7Y79p #AgentsWeek
I’m excited for us to announce Cloudflare Wallets! Starting today, you can reserve your username for our upcoming wallet and identity system
Cloudflare Wallets will allow you to easily store and spend stablecoins, particularly for agentic micropayments
willpapper.cloudflare.pay/
Maybe I only reveal my identity once I trust a merchant, or for certain projects. It’s optional but helps both buyers and sellers.
A full write-up on our Wallets design is available on the Cloudflare Blog. Feel free to reply or DM me with any feedback!
blog.cloudflare.com/wallets/
