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Mastercard Launches Agent Pay for Machines With 30+ Partners Including Coinbase, Stripe, and Polygon
Mastercard has introduced Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a service designed to permission, orchestrate, and settle continuous, high-frequency, often sub-cent transactions between AI agents and machines across its global network. The system enables credentialing agents with verifiable identity, programmatically enforced permissioning and spending limits, cross-provider transacting, and guaranteed multi-rail settlement across cards, accounts, and stablecoins, and builds on Mastercard's 2025 Agent Pay program by extending it to fully automated machine-to-machine commerce rather than agent-assisted human purchases. More than 30 partners are backing the launch at day one, including Aave, Adyen, Anchorage Digital, BVNK, Cloudflare, Coinbase, OKX, Polygon, RippleX, Solana Foundation, Stripe, and Tempo, with use cases ranging from an AI agent autonomously building a website (buying domains, hosting, and checkout pages within budget) to logistics agents paying for freight, warehouse fees, and cold-chain monitoring as shipments move.
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