Mastercard opens early access to AI agent payments, with Coinbase and others participating in the pilot.

PANews October 21 news, according to The Block, Mastercard has opened early access to its machine-to-machine payment system Agent Pay for Machines. Developers can use the first batch of buyer and seller APIs, developer toolkits, and sandbox environments. The product is still in the pilot stage and has not yet been commercialized. Mastercard has previously completed end-to-end pilots with Cloudflare, Ant International, BVNK, AIsa, Base, and Coinbase. In a demonstration at the Cloudflare Connect conference, AI agents paid service providers through Coinbase's x402 protocol, with Base as the on-chain settlement network. The system was first announced in June this year and supports card, bank account, and stablecoin payments.