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    Cloudflare’s Agentic Toll Booth

    Stablecoins and Agentic Commerce are all the rage these days. Everyone is launching their own stablecoins, payments consortia, L1 blockchain, and/or agentic protocols. It’s a truly exciting time in AI and payments, but it’s also a land-grab, with everyone jockeying to become THE standard by which agentic commerce happens.  Cloudflare & Coinbase’s latest attempt to dictate future standards with their NET Dollar and x402 protocol is an interesting development, and also a pretty shrewd and rational move… if you’re Cloudflare.  It seems pretty obvious to anyone paying attention to AI these days that we’re about to see an explosion of AI agents doing all sorts of things on the Internet,…