Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines is designed to let AI buy services and settle transactions using cards, bank accounts, and stablecoins.
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Payments giant Mastercard has officially launched the Agent Pay for Machines program for autonomous settlements between AI agents. The project was supported by more than 30 industry leaders, including Stripe, Coinbase and OKX, but the main object of attention was Ripple, which demonstrated two completely different approaches to the use of its assets, RLUSD and XRP, on the same day.
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Ripple launched an AI agent payment toolkit for the XRP Ledger on Wednesday as XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) ETFs pulled $7.44 million in net inflows on June 9. Why Ripple Is Building Payment Rails For AI Agents On XRPL The toolkit gives developers infrastructure to build agentic payment applications that settle transactions without manual approval loops, supporting x402-powered payments using both XRP and Ripple USD (CRYPTO: RLUSD), an open internet-native standard built around HTTP.
Mastercard has launched Agent Pay for Machines, a new payment framework that allows AI agents to authorize, coordinate, and settle transactions across its global network. The launch includes more than 30 partners, including Coinbase, Ripple, Stripe, and Solana Foundation, as companies test commerce that operates continuously without traditional checkout processes.
Ripple and Mastercard unveiled separate initiatives on June 10 aimed at solving one of artificial intelligence's biggest infrastructure challenges: enabling autonomous agents to transact, settle payments, and access services without human intervention.
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Ripple has launched a new developer toolkit for building AI-powered payment applications on the XRP Ledger, adding support for x402 payments using XRP and RLUSD as interest in agentic transactions continues to grow.
Mastercard launches Agent Pay for Machines, powering real-time always-on payments, backed by RippleX and others.