Edge 402 and a US stablecoin statute
Cloudflare put HTTP 402 on crawlers. The GENIUS Act became Public Law 119-27. Machine payments inherited both an edge-enforcement story and a federal issuer statute.
2025-07
What happened
Cloudflare put HTTP 402 on crawlers. The GENIUS Act became Public Law 119-27. Machine payments inherited both an edge-enforcement story and a federal issuer statute.
GovInfo hosts the enrolled GENIUS Act text as Public Law 119-27
Primary statute text, not a law-firm explainer.
The US GENIUS Act becomes Public Law 119-27
A federal payment-stablecoin statute, not an on-switch for agent commerce.
Hacker News immediately linked Cloudflare’s 402 crawl experiment to x402
Community comments are signals, not facts. This thread shows protocol awareness among builders.
Cloudflare launches pay-per-crawl on HTTP 402
Site owners can charge AI crawlers per request, with Cloudflare as merchant of record in the beta.