{"slug": "cardano-joins-solana-xrp-ledger-in-race-to-power-ai-agent-payments", "title": "Cardano joins Solana, XRP Ledger in race to power AI agent payments", "summary": "Cardano has been added to the official x402 software kit, letting developers build apps and AI agents that pay for online services with $ADA or tokens issued on the network, the Cardano Foundation said. The initial release supports TypeScript, with Python planned next, and the facilitator completed a real transaction on Cardano's pre-production network but has not yet run on mainnet. Cardano joins Solana, the $XRP Ledger and several Ethereum-compatible networks in supporting x402, the standard Coinbase created in 2025 and contributed to a Linux Foundation-backed organization whose members include Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Google and Amazon Web Services.", "body_md": "Cardano has been added to the official x402 software kit, giving developers the code needed to let an app or AI agent pay for an online service using $ADA or tokens issued on the network.\n\nx402 turns the web’s largely unused “402 Payment Required” response into a checkout built directly into an internet request. A service sends back its price and payment instructions, the agent signs a payment and receives the requested data or computing power after the transaction is verified.\n\nThat means an agent preparing a report could buy a single dataset when it needs it, without a person opening an account, entering card details or paying for a monthly subscription.\n\nCoinbase created x402 in 2025 before contributing it to a Linux Foundation-backed organization whose members include Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Google and Amazon Web Services. Solana, the $XRP Ledger and several Ethereum-compatible networks already support the standard.\n\nCardano Foundation engineers began with a specification accepted in June, then built the client and server software needed to request payments alongside a so-called facilitator that verifies and submits them. The initial release supports TypeScript, with Python planned next.\n\nThe facilitator’s documentation says it completed a real transaction on Cardano’s pre-production network but has not yet been run on mainnet. Developers can begin integrating Cardano, but the release does not show agents already paying for commercial services with $ADA at scale.\n\nCardano is joining the same race as Solana and $XRP Ledger — of getting its assets installed wherever developers eventually choose to build machine payments.\n\n*Read More: Ripple wants AI agents to pay in $XRP and RLUSD. The market is still mostly USDC*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cardano-joins-solana-xrp-ledger-in-race-to-power-ai-agent-payments", "canonical_source": "https://cryptonews.net/news/altcoins/33474887/", "published_at": "2026-09-22 04:19:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-22 04:24:28.883335+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Cardano", "Cardano Foundation", "x402", "Coinbase", "Solana", "XRP Ledger", "Linux Foundation", "Visa"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cardano-joins-solana-xrp-ledger-in-race-to-power-ai-agent-payments", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cardano-joins-solana-xrp-ledger-in-race-to-power-ai-agent-payments.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cardano-joins-solana-xrp-ledger-in-race-to-power-ai-agent-payments.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cardano-joins-solana-xrp-ledger-in-race-to-power-ai-agent-payments.jsonld"}}