Justin Ridgely retweeted
Mastercard is now helping agents pay for digital services.
Coinbase provides the agentic payments infrastructure to power each @Mastercard agent using @Cloudflare. Powered by x402 and the Coinbase facilitator.
If you’re building in agentic commerce, let’s talk.
Justin Ridgely retweeted
What happens when AI agents need to pay for the services they use?
We’re working with @Mastercard and an ecosystem of partners to help answer that question through Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines, enabling trusted agent-to-agent payments within defined budgets and permissions.
See it in action: cfl.re/4sohRTe
ALT A large audience is seated in a dimly lit conference hall, facing a stage with a speaker presenting. The stage displays the logos of Mastercard and Cloudflare. Large screens show close-ups of the speaker and presentation graphics. The event is Cloudflare Connect 2023.
Justin Ridgely retweeted
The statue of Prometheus is finally finished.
It was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase. It took us 100 days to go from nothing to this.
People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny.
But the time has come to reclaim our dream of antiquity.
In a few months, we will start building a new city. It will be the most magnificent city in all of history.
After all, the great dream of the West has always been to rebuild Rome.
Come walk beside us in this endeavor. The world is waiting.
Justin Ridgely retweeted
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…
Justin Ridgely retweeted
cloudflare is building the future of the internet
in a world where agents are the biggest users of that future internet, they'll need to pay for their content and cloudflare is leading the way in how that will work
Today, we’re making the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway available as part of a closed beta, and showcasing four customer use cases that are in production today. cfl.re/4zbezF8 #BirthdayWeek
Justin Ridgely retweeted
america.gov is powered by Cloudflare FedRamp High
The team @NDStudio are truly goated. Finally a government agency building better (and beautiful) user experiences to make life easier. Congrats @taigrr @caelin_sutch @ahmadaccino @as400495 @jgebbia
Hello, America!
Justin Ridgely retweeted
Today we are releasing Cloudflare OS, a chatbot with connectors, just like every other tech company is doing.
Except actually, it's different. This is a remake of Sandstorm[.]io, my startup from 10 years ago, except this time built on Cloudflare Workers (the platform I've spent the last 9 years building) and deeply leveraging AI. This is more or less the culmination of my secret 10-year master plan.
This is a full-on personal app vibe coding platform, in which the sandbox is so secure that you can pretty much go wild -- the AI cannot introduce a significant security bug. We believe a company's security team can feel comfortable giving non-technical users permission to vibe code and then sleep soundly at night.
How is that possible? It's the Sandstorm security model, revisited. A "Gadget" is the same thing as a Sandstorm "Grain": a fine-grained app instance. For example, if you have a document editor app, each document runs as a separate instance of the app, in a separate sandbox (one "Gadget").
This means two things, both of which I think are Big Deals:
1. The platform can manage all access control, by controlling who can access the Gadget at all. There is no way the Gadget can accidentally leak itself to an attacker -- even an attacker who has access to other Gadgets based on the same app.
2. Since everyone is running their own copy of the code, everyone can freely *modify* their copy of the code.
Think about #2 a bit more.
What if, when you wanted a new feature in the software you are using, you could just prompt your agent to add it?
This doesn't work in the cloud Software-as-a-Service model, because you are not running your own copy of the app.
Sandstorm tried to change that 10 years ago, but the world wasn't ready, because not enough people had the skills or patience to actually modify their software. AI has changed that. Now you just ask the agent -- the same agent that you are using to help you interact with the Gadget can also modify the code of the Gadget.
And it is so fun.
github.com/cloudflare/cloudf…
Justin Ridgely retweeted
Introducing Cloudflare Wallets. They will allow you to store stablecoins, purchase services, and receive funds across the web. cfl.re/455An86
Justin Ridgely retweeted
In 1900, you could redevelop a suburban neighbourhood into dense mid-rise almost anywhere in the world. Today, you can do it almost nowhere.
I call this phenomenon the ‘Great Downzoning’. The Great Downzoning is the main cause of housing shortages around the world.
Below you can see four neighbourhoods, in France, England, Spain and the USA, which were caught by the Downzoning midway through densification and frozen forever in a transitional phase.
How did this happen? An article and a thread.
worksinprogress.co/issue/the…
Justin Ridgely retweeted
Ethereum’s future won’t run on one chain—it’ll horizontally scale across many.
Today, Syndicate and @eigencloud are partnering on "AVS Sequencer Networks"—programmable, decentralized sequencer networks secured by native token staking.
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For many years radical onchain transparency has been paired with offchain obfuscation. This is finally changing and I couldn't be more excited.
Justin Ridgely retweeted
Wyoming continues to lead the way in financial innovation 🤠🇺🇸
Justin Ridgely retweeted
The fleet is growing. We’ve teamed up with @layer3xyz to bring more players to Adrift—a survival game and gaming appchain from Syndicate.
Check in daily. Repair your ship. Brave the sea. Last one sailing wins a prize.
Game starts tomorrow.
Justin Ridgely retweeted
with the amplifying quality of social media, you have accidentally constructed a much scarier version of the world that only lives inside your mind. put your phone down, make coffee, stare out the window. slow cook something delicious today and eat it with your loved ones.
