Cloudflare CEO: AI micropayments need 10 million transactions per second
- —Prince set 10 million TPS as the launch floor, scaling toward 100 million TPS
- —For context, Visa handles around 18,000 transactions per second
- —Cloudflare processes roughly 500 million requests per second, with 1–10% potentially monetizable
- —The x402 protocol uses HTTP code 402 and settles stablecoin payments in under a second
Why it matters: If AI agents become the primary consumers of web content, stablecoins could gain a mass payment use case, though current on-chain capacity is far below the volumes Prince describes.
Source: Crypto Briefing