Mastercard has unveiled “Agent Pay for Machines,” an infrastructure aimed at enabling payments executed by autonomous AI agents and machines. The service is designed for high-volume, low-value transactions that require low latency, allowing agents to initiate and complete payments to one another for tasks such as buying services and settling arrangements.
Across reports, Mastercard positions Agent Pay for Machines as an extension of its existing “Agent Pay” concept, expanding payment capabilities for frequent machine-to-machine activity. The company says the system supports payment flows that can be carried out using cards and bank accounts, and it also includes stablecoins as a settlement method.
One outlet also reports that Mastercard works with crypto industry participants to support the service, citing involvement from firms such as Coinbase and Ripple. The overall goal is to create a payment framework that can handle transactions generated by AI systems in real time, rather than relying on traditional human-initiated payment processes.
