As AI agents begin to act, payments move into the background — at machine speed and massive scale. Today we’re introducing Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines — bringing structure, governance, and trust to this new class of payments. Launching with 30 partners to bring this to life from day one. This isn’t just more payments. It’s a new operating model for commerce. 👉 Learn more: mastercard.com/us/en/news-an…

AI agents are beginning to transact, pay for services, and settle value autonomously. Today, we're introducing the XRPL AI Starter Kit, a new set of tools and integrations designed to help developers build agentic payment applications on the XRP Ledger: on.ripple.com/4v7STIm Phase 1 includes: → XRPL Docs MCP Server → Claude Skills for wallet creation, payments, and transaction tracking → X402 support for agent-to-agent payments using $XRP and $RLUSD XRPL's fast settlement, predictable costs, and native payment functionality make it a strong foundation for agentic payments.

We’re cohosting Agentic Payments Onchain in Singapore with @Ripple. A curated gathering for builders and industry leaders pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with the XRP Ledger, x402, and AI-native payment protocols. Apply to join: luma.com/6alotku0

Excited to co-host Agentic Finance Forum during Fintech Week SF alongside @FTDA_US, @Ripple, and @CambrianNetwork. We’ll discuss how AI, traditional finance, and digital assets are converging, and what agentic finance looks like in practice. RSVP here: app.financialclub.com/event/…

"I think [AI agents] may be the only actors that we trust with our assets and the only actors that are capable of generating meaningful return on our assets." @psneville, cofounder of @catena_labs, makes the case for an agent-native internet built on stablecoin rails: "Once we have stablecoins and we have the ability to represent dollars on internet rails, what kind of new opportunities does that unlock? At the same time we were contemplating that, you could see clearly the web, the internet itself, is going agent-native." "As AI actors become economic participants, they will ultimately be the primary dominant economic participants in the world for all kinds of activities, payments, and otherwise." "Flash forward in a few years, I think they may be the only actors that we trust with our assets and the only actors that are capable of generating meaningful return on our assets."

AI agents will become first-class economic actors. Crypto gives them the rails. Trust infrastructure defines who they are, what they can do, and who’s responsible if something breaks. That’s how the agent economy becomes ready for scale.

"Agents will become economic actors. They will become first-class members of the financial system." @alive_ on why AI agents need crypto rails: "There are all sorts of financial behaviors that they'll be able to engage in that they currently cannot, and it's inconceivable to imagine that all of that is gonna happen on ACH and wire transfers and the traditional payments rails that we rely on today." "Crypto, on the other hand, is internet native, it's fully programmable, it's instantly settled, it's global from day one. It is the perfect fit from a technological standpoint for AI agents as a way of bringing agents into the financial world." @unchained_pod @laurashin

This is a meaningful step toward 24/7 global financial markets. By combining the XRP Ledger with global banking infrastructure, this pilot shows how institutions can execute cross-border transactions in a single integrated flow.

Now AI agents on AWS can pay for services in USDC, settled on @base