Cloudflare's $200B machine-payments play: 75M robot payments at $0.30 a time
LexSokolin · x · 2026-10-08
Lex Sokolin's Fintech Futurists newsletter leads with an analysis of Cloudflare's machine-payments push: 75M robot payments processed at $0.30 a time, with Cloudflare sitting in front of a quarter of the web and targeting a $200B machine-transaction market. Also inside: how financial institutions are building around small-amount, high-volume machine transactions; Whop's bid to let everyone start a bank; a podcast with Stripe's Simon Taylor on Tempo rebuilding on-chain cash settlement; plus curated updates on machine models and AI in finance.
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