AI agents are breaking web economics, but Cloudflare says x402 can help

The company’s Chief Strategy Officer said that more than half of internet traffic is now non-human, but that the x402 Foundation is building the rails for a "golden age of content." What to know : Cloudflare's network is processing a billion HTTP 402 "payment required" responses every day, according to Chief Strategy Officer Stephanie Cohen More than half of internet traffic is now non-human and growing fast; AI scrapers visit a site at "tens of thousands to one" relative to the human visitors they send back, up from a 2-to-1 ratio a decade ago. Cohen credited Coinbase and Stripe as co-creators of the x402 Foundation and pointed to a recent Cloudflare integration with Visa and Experian as the next layer of the agentic-payments stack.