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Mastercard launches Agent Pay for Machines, a payment protocol built for AI agents
Jun 10, 2026
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by Opeyemi Olanrewaju
for CryptoPolitan
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Mastercard on Tuesday unveiled Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a protocol that lets AI agents send and settle microtransactions costing less than a cent across its global card network, with more than 30 early partners including Stripe, Coinbase and Cloudflare. By bridging card rails with crypto platforms and exchanges, AP4M could accelerate crypto and Web3 adoption, enable new DeFi and tokenized payment use cases, and simplify fiat on/off ramps for CEXs, DEX integrations and token launches while raising security and settlement considerations.
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Global card payments giant, Mastercard, has on Tuesday unveiled the Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) protocol that allows AI agents to send and settle payments, including microtransactions costing less than a cent, across the card network’s global infrastructure. More than 30 companies have signed on as early partners, a list that includes Stripe, Coinbase, Cloudflare,...
