Subscribe to receive notifications of new posts:

Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

2026-07-01

We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x402 open protocol, with no payments stack of your own to build....

Continue reading »
Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

Content Independence Day, one year on: building the business model for the agentic Internet

2026-07-01

Content Independence DayBotsBot ManagementRadarInternet TrafficAI

One year after declaring Content Independence Day, a dynamic market for monetized content has officially emerged. In this report, we examine how the rise of autonomous AI agents is upending traditional search referrals and detail the new infrastructure required to support a sustainable web economy. ...

Making AI search smarter

2026-07-01

Content Independence DayPay Per CrawlAIAI SearchAI Bots

Search is how we find nearly everything on the web — creators, merchants, answers. AI is rewriting the rules, leaving creators caught between staying discoverable in an agentic era and getting paid for their work. Today we're launching two initiatives to help....

Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers

2026-07-01

Content Independence DayAI BotsAICrawler HintsBot Management

For our second Content Independence Day, we’re giving website owners finer options to manage AI traffic. Instead of a one-size-fits-all block, all customers can now easily distinguish and manage Search, Agent, and Training bots, alongside the new ability to protect ad-monetized pages....

Unmasking the crawls with Attribution Business Insights

2026-07-01

Content Independence DayAIBotsBot ManagementSecurity

Cloudflare’s new Attribution Business Insights dashboard helps website owners understand crawler behavior, appetite, and potential value, fueling business-level conversations around crawl compensation....

How we built saga rollbacks for Cloudflare Workflows

2026-06-25

WorkflowsCloudflare WorkersDevelopers

Cloudflare Workflows, our durable execution engine for multi-step applications, now supports saga-style rollbacks, allowing developers to specify a compensating action for each step.do(). ...

Unlocking the Cloudflare app ecosystem with OAuth for all

2026-06-24

DevelopersAPISecurityOAuthDeveloper PlatformAgentsProduct NewsCloudflare Media PlatformIdentity

Self-Managed OAuth is now available to all developers on Cloudflare. Here's how we executed a zero-downtime migration of our core OAuth engine to make it happen....

The White House's post-quantum executive order is an important milestone. It’s time to get to work

2026-06-23

Post-QuantumSecurityCryptographyPolicy & LegalGovernment InnovationImpact

The new executive order sets a 2030 migration deadline and establishes a powerful foundation for post-quantum resilience. We look at what it gets right, where it can go further, and our migration playbook for government and industry....

How we found a bug in the hyper HTTP library

2026-06-22

Image OptimizationCloudflare ImagesDevelopersDeveloper PlatformCloudflare WorkersOpen Source

By rearchitecting the Images binding, we accidentally uncovered a bug that existed in the open-source hyper library across multiple major versions....

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents

2026-06-19

AgentsWranglerAICloudflare Workers

The moment an agent needs to deploy something, it slams face-first into a wall built for humans. Today we're rolling out Temporary Accounts on Cloudflare Workers. Any agent can now run wrangler deploy — temporary and get a live Worker in seconds....

Build your own vulnerability harness

2026-06-18

SecurityAIEngineeringResearchVulnerabilities

We break down the technical architecture behind our multi-stage vulnerability discovery harness and automated triage loop. Learn how we manage state controls, squash false positives through adversarial review, and route around LLM context limits....

Celebrating 12 years of Project Galileo

2026-06-18

ImpactProject Galileo

To mark the 12th anniversary of Project Galileo, Cloudflare has released its first comprehensive report analyzing cyberattacks against civil society....

Bringing more agent harnesses and frameworks to Cloudflare, starting with Flue

2026-06-17

AICloudflare WorkersDevelopersDeveloper PlatformDurable ObjectsSDKMCP

The Agents SDK is now a runtime any agent framework can build on. Today we're opening up the Agents SDK primitives, with Flue as a first framework targeting Agents SDK, and rolling out agents in the dashboard....

Introducing the Cloudflare One stack: agent-powered deployment

2026-06-17

Cloudflare OneZero TrustAgents

The Cloudflare One stack is a library of agent skills that gives any AI agent the knowledge it needs to plan, deploy, and manage a Zero Trust environment — no migration calls required....

Cloudflare DMARC Management is now generally available

2026-06-16

EmailEmail SecurityDMARC

Get unified visibility into your email authentication posture and reach full DMARC enforcement with deeper reporting, record analysis, and SPF audits free for every Cloudflare customer....

Growing the Cloudflare AI team with talent from Ensemble AI

2026-06-15

Workers AIAI

Cloudflare is deepening our investment in AI with the addition of team members from Ensemble AI, focusing on machine learning infrastructure and efficiency....

Scaling Security Insights: how we achieved a 10x increase in global scanning capacity

2026-06-12

Application SecuritySecurity Posture ManagementEngineeringPostgresKafka

Cloudflare Security Insights system now processes over 120 scans per second, providing frequent insights for all customers. By optimizing Kafka consumers, Postgres queries, and our API, we scaled our throughput 10x without adding hardware....

Route public traffic to private applications with Cloudflare

2026-06-10

Application ServicesPrivate NetworkDNSPingoraCloudflare OneCloudflare Zero TrustZero TrustProduct News

Application Services for Private Origins is available now in closed beta. Route public hostnames to private IP origins over your existing IPsec, GRE, CNI, or Cloudflare Mesh paths. No public IPs or extra connector software required....

Defend against frontier cyber models: Cloudflare's architecture as customer zero

2026-06-09

SecurityAIThreat IntelligenceRisk ManagementCustomer ZeroWAFZero TrustCloudforce OneBot Management

In our post about Project Glasswing, we made the argument that the architecture around a vulnerability matters more than the speed of the patch. Here we walk through what that architecture looks like, the threats it defends against, and how we run it ourselves as Cloudflare's customer zero....

Turning Cloudflare’s threat indicators into real-time WAF rules

2026-06-08

SecurityWAFThreat IntelligenceCloudforce OneProduct News

Cloudflare customers can now use Cloudforce One threat intelligence directly within the WAF to block high-risk traffic. By using new cf.intel fields, security teams can automate protection against specific threat actors and targeted industries in real time....