Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines goes live on x402, letting AI agents pay for services
kleffew94 · x · 2026-10-21
- Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines now runs on the x402 protocol and the Coinbase facilitator, enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for digital services; Coinbase provides the agentic payments infrastructure, powered by Cloudflare.
- Citing kleffew94's September take: stablecoins and credit cards are both great ways to enable agent access to resources — "agents are rational economic actors that can ingest lots of context and execute micropayments at scale."
- Agentic commerce infrastructure is moving from experiments into mainstream payment networks.
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