Crypto x AI & Emerging Tech

Agentic Payments

Also: AI Agent Payments

Payments made by AI agents acting on a person's or company's behalf. Several competing standards exist, some built on stablecoins (such as x402) and others on card networks and checkout flows (such as Google's AP2 and the OpenAI and Stripe protocol). All of them raise new questions about spending limits, authorization, and accountability.

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