Five competing checkout and settlement standards for agentic payments are now vying to become how software spends money, most of them less than 14 months old, with no binding statute in the US, UK, EU…
A-Comm Technologies founder and CEO Krystal Gracier opened the draft A-Comm Evidence Protocol (AEP) for public comment on July 13th, proposing a tamper-evident record for AI agent transactions that me…
Jill Kramer, chief marketing and communications officer at Mastercard, argued at Cannes Lions 2026 that the marketing industry must stop forcing itself into false binaries such as AI vs. creativity an…
A developer built ToolHail, a discovery-and-execution layer for AI agents that lets them find and use MCP servers without human intervention. ToolHail is a remote MCP server providing two tools: find_…
The Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation on July 14, 2026, an open standards body for AI agent payments, with 40 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, Google,…
The Linux Foundation has launched the x402 Foundation to oversee a new open standard for digital transactions, enabling AI agents and APIs to pay for online services directly through HTTP. The protoco…
The Linux Foundation has launched the x402 Foundation to oversee the x402 payment protocol, an open standard enabling AI agents and applications to pay for digital services directly over HTTP. Forty o…
Circle has joined the x402 Foundation as a founding member to standardize internet-native payments using USDC, embedding payments directly into web requests via the HTTP 402 status code. The foundatio…
An international developer built api-hub.cc, a proxy service that accepts Visa and Mastercard payments for DeepSeek V4-Flash API access, after the official DeepSeek platform only accepted Alipay and W…
The Linux Foundation announced the operational launch of the x402 Foundation to standardize Internet-native payments for AI agents and applications, with Coinbase contributing the x402 protocol. Backe…
MoonPay has integrated its AI-powered crypto agents into Telegram, enabling over 100 million users to fund wallets, swap tokens, and execute on-chain trades directly within the messaging app. The move…
AgentWallex has developed a payment gateway architecture designed to prevent unauthorized cryptocurrency payments by AI agents, even when agents are compromised via prompt injection attacks. The syste…
In the first half of 2026, major payment companies including Google, Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, American Express, Ant International, and Circle have shipped infrastructure for AI agents to handle payme…
Mastercard launched agent-to-agent payments, validating the agentic payments market. However, AgentWallex argues that legacy card infrastructure is incompatible with agent-native operations, which req…
A new study by fraud-prevention firm Riskified found that 61.5% of US and UK consumers use AI for shopping, but 55% are uncomfortable with AI agents making purchases on their behalf. Half of consumers…
OKX launched an open protocol on April 29 that enables AI agents to autonomously hire, pay, and dispute with each other on-chain, aiming to become the payment infrastructure for the agentic economy. T…
Adyen launched Adyen Agentic, a modular API suite enabling AI-driven commerce through conversational channels, with early partners including American Express, Mastercard, Visa, and Salesforce. The sui…
A new $500 million fund called Intercept, backed by Stripe and Anthropic, launched June 24 to finance treatments and technologies aimed at eliminating respiratory infections like the common cold and f…
At Open Source Summit North America 2026, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) proposed an open infrastructure for agentic commerce, citing a Bain forecast that agentic shopping coul…
Four teams shipped progress on agent commerce this week: Mastercard's agent-payment program records authorizations on Polygon, Coinbase's x402 protocol expands to mainstream web infrastructure, Eco pr…