In brief
- Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines, a platform for autonomous AI-driven payments.
- The company said the service supports machine-to-machine transactions, including microtransactions worth fractions of a cent.
- Coinbase, OKX, Polygon, RippleX, Stripe, Cloudflare, and more than two dozen other companies are participating.
Mastercard on Wednesday announced the launch of Agent Pay for Machines, a payments platform designed to let AI agents transact autonomously using cards, bank accounts, and stablecoins.
According to Mastercard, the platform is designed to let AI systems buy services and send payments on their own, including small transactions that occur in the background. The service expands on the company’s Agent Pay…






