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title: Restrict gateway access
description: Restrict access to your Web3 gateway with WAF custom rules.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/core-services-preview.png
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# Restrict gateway access

If you are using a [Web3 gateway](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web3/about/) for internal application calls, you may want to restrict gateway access to specific backend services.

You can achieve this goal by [creating general Access policies](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/access-controls/policies/) to block normal traffic and then [creating service tokens](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/access-controls/service-credentials/service-tokens/) to allow access by your backend service.

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