Paid MCP remains a market category rather than a single standard because the Model Context Protocol specification defines how tools are described and invoked but does not specify settlement, according…
Cloudflare's gateway language now treats Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools as chargeable resources alongside APIs and pages, moving paid MCP from informal discussion into an explicit product category…
Stripe published MPP, an open standard co-authored with Tempo, as an internet-native way for AI agents to pay for APIs, MCP servers, and HTTP resources, the company announced on 18 March 2026. Under M…
Stripe, Visa, and other incumbent payments and model vendors published overlapping agent-commerce interfaces through 2025–2026, including Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol with MPP and x402 support a…