Current outcome
Mastercard has opened early access to Agent Pay for Machines, letting AI agents discover and pay for services within human-set budgets via x402 payment vouchers settled through Coinbase wallets, Base on-chain settlement and BVNK fiat/stablecoin rails; it has also run a live demo, offered developer APIs/SDKs/sandbox, and begun pilots with Cloudflare, AWS and Coinbase.
Progress timeline
2 material updates- #01
Mastercard Opens Up AI Agent Payments With Early Access and Live Demo
Mastercard opened early access to Agent Pay for Machines, letting AI agents discover and pay for services within human-set limits via x402 payment vouchers settled through Coinbase, Base, and BVNK in fiat or stablecoins.
Source evidence: Decrypt
- #02
万事达卡开放AI代理自主支付系统早期接入
New facts: Mastercard demonstrated live Agent Pay for Machines transactions at Cloudflare Connect, with a marketing agent completing 9 payments to two independent merchants under one budget; it also announced buyer/seller APIs, SDKs and a sandbox for developers, and end-to-end pilots with Cloudflare, AWS and Coinbase.
State after update: Mastercard has opened early access to Agent Pay for Machines, letting AI agents discover and pay for services within human-set budgets via x402 payment vouchers settled through Coinbase wallets, Base on-chain settlement and BVNK fiat/stablecoin rails; it has also run a live demo, offered developer APIs/SDKs/sandbox, and begun pilots with Cloudflare, AWS and Coinbase.
Source evidence: theblockbeats