Mastercard Launches Agent Pay for Machines With 30+ Partners Including Coinbase, Stripe, and Polygon (3 minute read) (opens in new tab)  ☁️Cloudflare

Mastercard has introduced Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a service designed to permission, orchestrate, and settle continuous, high-frequency, often sub-cent transactions between AI agents and machines across its global network. The system enables credentialing agents with verifiable identity, programmatically enforced permissioning and spending limits, cross-provider transacting, and guaranteed multi-rail settlement across cards, accounts, and stablecoins, and builds on Mastercard's 2025 Age...