William Allen
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Building at @cloudflare. Prior: Co-founder/CEO of Chamber (acq by @casaHODL), VP @Adobe (GM @contentauth, @Behance), COO Behance Inc, @TEDTalks many years ago.
Joined November 2008
Today, we @Cloudflare launched something I’ve wanted to see in the world for over half a decade. Cloudflare now allows you to opt-in to preserving Content Credentials / @C2PA_org metadata as your images are resized and transformed across our global network.
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Introducing XRPR: The first U.S. ETF giving you spot exposure to XRP via a traditional ETF.
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AI and crypto aren’t competing — they’re converging. AI needs identity, payments, and provenance tracking. Crypto provides all three. Together, they’re shaping a more open internet—one where both money and intelligence move freely.
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Great writeup from the @AtlantaFed on x402 and the emerging machine-to-machine economy: https://t.co/D1fLyMAPYA
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An underdiscused combo: ChatGPT 5 Thinking + Youtube for DIY home projects. Chat helped me find a replacement cartridge for my now-discontinued shower trim, find the specs to torque it to, and a quick youtube video helped me replace it in minutes.
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🚨This just in from #CloudflareConnect! 🚨 We’ve partnered with @Visa and the broader payment ecosystem to help bring agentic commerce to millions of merchants worldwide. Read more here: https://t.co/Rca9MsFBU7
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another step forward for web bot auth as a standard for agent identity
Two challenges agents & merchants have today: 1) How do you authorize an agent to represent you and use your credit card? 2) How do you let a merchant know that the agent *really does* represent you and isn't a random bot? That's what @Visa, in collaboration with @Cloudflare,
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Two challenges agents & merchants have today: 1) How do you authorize an agent to represent you and use your credit card? 2) How do you let a merchant know that the agent *really does* represent you and isn't a random bot? That's what @Visa, in collaboration with @Cloudflare,
We have introduced Trusted Agent Protocol — a new milestone in the AI commerce journey we began with @Visa Intelligent Commerce. Our objective: give merchants the visibility and trust they need to serve AI agents with the same confidence they serve human customers.
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x402 will be how AI pays for content and data, and it'll be owned by no one. "Coinbase and Cloudflare have announced the intent to form the x402 Foundation. It will be structured so no single company controls x402."
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You heard that right, we are giving your domains on Cloudflare an AI Index. 🤖🔎 Creators now get the tool to make their content discoverable by AI, and AI builders get access to better data. All with fair compensation. Sign up for private beta today! https://t.co/jt961wFQG8
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The web needs a stablecoin that will work to power agents, micro payments, and other transactions. We'll support many flavors, but are excited about what @Cloudflare's NET Dollar will be able to achieve being purpose built for these needs.
Cloudflare introduces NET Dollar, a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin that will enable instant, secure transactions for the agentic web.
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We're launching the x402 Foundation with @Cloudflare. I’ve been thinking about how internet payments should work for years. Or more specifically, how they aren't working, and need to improve. x402 is a big step forward. AI agents can now transact value, not just exchange info.
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A second chance for 402 status code to make its mark on the Internet. The original creators understood that payments needed to be built into the network infrastructure.
🚀 Big news 🚀 @coinbase and @cloudflare will be launching the x402 Foundation to establish x402 as the universal standard for AI-driven payments. Legacy payment systems weren’t built for machines, but x402 changes that by embedding payments directly into web interactions,
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the @cloudflare agents sdk now supports x402 which means you can build MCP servers and agents with built-in: → state / memory → auth → and importantly, payments (!!!) blog & docs 👇
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We @Cloudflare are working with @coinbase to create the x402 Foundation. @programmer & others at Coinbase have created a powerful protocol to enable payments at Internet scale, and I am proud to work with them to create a foundation to standardize the protocol. Every day, sites
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This how the AIs begin their takeover: they now write down the plan.
Marc Andreessen (@pmarca): The person who writes down the plan has tremendous power, regardless of their role. Very few people actually do it. Yet, that's the question: who wrote down the plan?
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M&A is happening everywhere except for my angel portfolio. (skill issue!?)
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This is well worth your time.
9-4-2025 An Interview with Cloudflare Founder and CEO Matthew Prince About Internet History and Pay-per-crawl https://t.co/ntqzlvoODz
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