ai payments

Mastercard

2026-10-09 19:54:32

Mastercard expands Agent Pay with trust and intelligence services for agentic commerce

Mastercard said it is expanding Agent Pay, its agentic payments initiative, with a new set of trust and intelligence services. The company said the offering is designed to give AI-initiated transactions richer contextual information. The update was reported by Techub News, which cited Finextra Crypto Channel as the source. No additional product details, launch timeline, or market rollout information were disclosed in the brief. The announcement centers on Mastercard’s effort to add more context around transactions initiated by AI agents through its Agent Pay program.

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Dext

2026-10-05 14:24:35

Dext launches AI-powered Dext Payments solution in Canada

Dext, described in the report as a global provider of AI-powered bookkeeping automation services, has launched its Dext Payments solution in Canada. The product is designed to improve payment workflows through artificial intelligence and give businesses a more efficient financial management toolset. The update was carried by Techub News, which cited Finextra as the source. No additional rollout details, product specifications, or timeline beyond the launch announcement were disclosed in the provided report. The announcement centers on Dext’s move to bring its payments offering to the Canadian market and positions the product around workflow optimization and business finance efficiency.

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Ethereum

2026-10-05 03:31:33

Ethereum Foundation and Open Anonymity Project launch zkAPI on Ethereum mainnet

Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project launched zkAPI on the Ethereum mainnet on Oct. 1, according to an Odaily report citing Bitcoin.com News. The system is designed for users who want to pre-fund balances in assets such as ETH and USDC, then use those balances to pay for AI products and other metered services without directly tying billing identity to individual requests. After depositing funds, users can authorize payments through zero-knowledge proofs and one-time API keys. Once the server verifies a payment proof, it issues a short-lived key with a spending limit. That setup allows AI providers to receive prompts while not learning the identity tied to the payment. The report also notes the system’s limits. zkAPI does not hide prompt content, meaning service providers can still read both prompts and responses. It also does not remove metadata risks: stable IP addresses, timing patterns, and repeated behavior may still be used to link activity back to a user. The project’s code repository currently labels zkAPI as experimental.

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XRP Ledger

2026-10-01 10:09:35

XRP Ledger’s x402 protocol passes 10 million AI payment settlements

XRP Ledger has crossed a new usage milestone, with AI agent payments settled through the x402 protocol surpassing 10 million transactions, according to Techub News. The update points to continued growth in activity tied to the protocol. The x402 protocol was developed by t54, an AI agent payment trust-layer platform backed by Ripple. The report says the protocol reached the 10 million settlement mark in less than three months after first surpassing 1 million settlements. The figures cited in the brief were attributed to CoinGape. No additional operational details, breakdowns, or timeframe beyond that three-month comparison were disclosed in the source material.

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ECB

2026-09-29 12:07:50

ECB opens applications for digital euro innovation platform focused on AI payment use cases

The European Central Bank has opened a new application round for its digital euro innovation platform, according to Cointelegraph. The initiative invites fintech firms, payment providers, and other organizations to explore how AI agents could take part in digital euro payments. The program has two tracks: a hands-on testing phase and a workshop stream focused on future use cases. The testing phase is scheduled for January through June 2027, when participants will build prototypes for features including electronic receipts, multi-party transactions, and conditional payments. Separately, the ECB has already selected 36 banks and payment institutions, including Revolut, Stripe, and Deutsche Bank, for another 12-month digital euro pilot set to begin in the second half of 2027. The report added that any final issuance of the digital euro still depends on European Union legislation and a later decision by the ECB.

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Ripple

2026-09-18 15:25:42

Ripple adds MPP and Open Wallet Standard support to XRPL developer toolkit

Ripple said it has expanded the XRP Ledger developer toolkit to support the Machine Payments Protocol, a standard backed by Stripe and Tempo, along with the Open Wallet Standard. The update is aimed at developers building autonomous AI agents that need to make payments without human intervention. Under the new setup, those agents can use XRP or Ripple USD (RLUSD) to pay for digital services such as data and compute. Jazzi Cooper, Ripple’s head of developer relations, said on X that AI agent payments will run across multiple platforms and rails, and that Ripple wants XRP and RLUSD to become the default choice for developers. Ripple also pointed to recent activity on XRPL, saying the network has logged more than 1.2 million AI-related transactions. Separate data cited in the update showed that the XRPL decentralized exchange posted average trading volume of more than $400 million across the first three quarters of 2026, keeping it among the top 25 chains by DEX volume.

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MoonPay

2026-09-08 10:27:26

MoonPay rolls out PayBox to bring crypto wallets and card payments into Claude, ChatGPT and Grok

MoonPay has launched PayBox, a payment vault designed for AI agents that lets users connect wallets and payment cards to assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and, later, Grok. The product went live on July 29 at paybox.sh and is built to keep transactions inside the chat interface, so users can research, compare and authorize purchases without jumping to a separate checkout page. According to MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto-Wright, the goal is to let agents hold payment credentials and crypto wallets while preventing any single party from controlling private keys. PayBox supports both card and onchain transactions. MoonPay said agents can initiate card payments without seeing raw card numbers, while crypto wallets can be created or imported and funded either from an existing wallet or through card on-ramps after a one-time identity check. The product launched with support for Solana and several EVM-compatible networks, including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Hyperliquid, Tempo and Robinhood Chain. It also integrates x402, the machine-payment standard originally open-sourced by Coinbase and now governed by the Linux Foundation-backed x402 Foundation. MoonPay said PayBox reached 224,000 signups one day after launch, though that figure was disclosed by the company itself and has not been independently verified. The firm frames PayBox as a non-custodial system built on MPC and TEE infrastructure, partly inherited from its roughly $100 million all-stock acquisition of Israeli key-management company Sodot in April.

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AEON

2026-09-04 06:54:14

AEON Launches Agentic Checkout for AI Agents to Shop and Pay on Shopify

AEON, an AI economy settlement protocol, has announced Agentic Checkout, enabling AI agents to complete product search, selection, checkout and payment through natural-language conversations inside Shopify's open merchant ecosystem. The AEON AI Card supports the payment stage, with preset spending limits and authorization ranges that let an AI agent pay without direct access to a user's main wallet or primary card. The offering now covers more than 3 million active Shopify stores and over 1 billion products. In a later phase, AEON will integrate Claude's open-source e-commerce agent and expand into shopping and payment scenarios including Amazon and Travala.

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