Mastercard Unveils Agent Pay For Machines As Ripple Readies Itself For AI Payments

Mastercard has rolled out Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a new payment framework to allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents to complete purchases and transactions on behalf of consumers. The global payments provider tapped Ripple to join the new framework, with the blockchain firm rolling out its agentic payment toolkit.

Mastercard wants AI to become a consumer

According to an , Ripple has surged ahead with a streak of product rollouts.

Alongside the Mastercard announcement, Ripple rolled out a new agentic payment toolkit for developers exploring autonomous payment systems on the XRP Ledger.

Ripple disclosed that the XRP Ledger and RLUSD offer the perfect conditions for agentic payments, teeing it up for success in Mastercard’s new framework. Markus Infanger, senior vice president of RippleX, said:

“XRPL and RLUSD are built so enterprises can let agents transact at machine speed within rules the chain itself enforces, with settlement in seconds, predictable costs, programmable compliance, and a full audit trail, so agents can only ever do what thy are authorized to do.”

Other early adopters include internet giants Cloudflare and Checkout.com with Ant International, Lovable, Turnkey, and Tempo joining the initial cohort.

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