August 5 News.Cloudflare Yesterday (4 August) announced the launch of the Claudflare Wallet function, which will be used as a tool for the development of new technologiesFOR AI AgentDEPLOYMENT OF DIGITAL CREDIT CARDS, IDENTIFICATION (ID) AND CONSUMPTION CAP MECHANISM。
BOVEN POINTS OUT THAT IF THE CURRENT AI SMART BODY WANTS TO TEST AN API, IT MUST FIRST ACCESS A HUMAN-DESIGNED LOGIN PAGE, WAITING FOR THE USER TO ADD THE PAYMENT TO GENERATE THE API KEY BEFORE YOU CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO CALL THE SERVICE。
In the actual scene operation, AI intelligence encounters various obstacles, and the entire process eventually retreats to manual operations, thus limiting the number of services provided by intelligent bodies. As a result, Cloudflare has introduced the Wallet function, which allows humans to delegate financial power to AI intelligence so that they can purchase API, MCP tools and content in a headless way。
Technical detail, Cloudflare Wallets contains two categoriesWallet:
- The Account Wallets wallet (Account Wallets) is intended for owners and human users of the Cloudflare account, to support the recapitalization, the removal of funds and the granting of spending privileges to virtual wallets
- The Virtual Wallets virtual wallet (Virtual Wallets) is specifically designed for AI proxy and is run through the API key to consume funds within the ceilings and privileges set by the account owner。
The payment chain is based on the Menetization Gateway agreement with x402. The agreement allows for the payment of micropayments to be added to the HTTP request, covering services such as AI reasoning, data and content。
VIRTUAL WALLETS SUPPORT THE SETTING OF FINANCIAL LIMITS, WHITE LISTS AND THE MAXIMUM SIZE OF TRANSACTIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE COST OF A SINGLE API TRIAL IS ONLY A FEW CENTS, A BUDGET OF $10 (NOTE: THE CURRENT EXCHANGE RATE IS APPROXIMATELY RMB 67.6) WOULD BE ABLE TO ASSESS A LARGE NUMBER OF OPTIONS, THE RISK OF WHICH WOULD BE FAR LOWER THAN THAT OF THE ALLOCATION OF $1,000 (THE CURRENT RATE IS ABOUT RMB 6,763). THE ACCOUNT KEEPER MAY SET AN AI REASONING BUDGET OF $100 PER WEEK FOR EACH EMPLOYEE (THE CURRENT EXCHANGE RATE IS APPROXIMATELY RMB 676.3), WITH EXCESS EXPENDITURE TO BE MANUALLY CLEARED。
In terms of identification, Cloudflare connects its wallet to the account through claudflare.pay, providing a stable and sustainable human readable identifier for the intelligent。
The mechanism, similar to the DNS (domain name system), maps IP addresses as URLs, is based on Web Bot Auth's key pair, enabling intelligents to choose to declare their identity to a business。