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title: Restrict gateway access · Cloudflare Web3 docs
description: If you are using a Web3 gateway for internal application calls, you
  may want to restrict gateway access to specific backend services.
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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/policies/access/) to block normal traffic and then [creating service tokens](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/identity/service-tokens/) to allow access by your backend service.
