Singapore-based crypto-native travel booking service Travala introduced what it described as an end-to-end agentic AI travel protocol that enables autonomous software agents to search, reserve, and settle payments for hotel properties without human intervention until the final authorization step.
Dubbed the Travala Travel MCP, the protocol is designed for agentic commerce, operates on the Base Layer 2 blockchain, and integrates the x402 open payments standard to enable instant stablecoin payments directly over the internet for APIs, applications, and AI agents without manual checkout flows, the company said in a statement.
The company argued that the infrastructure removes friction from traditional booking and payment processes by allowing gasless USDC transactions on Base with near-instant settlement times and transaction costs of approximately $0.01 per booking.
Travala said the technology powers an AI travel concierge capable of planning and executing complete trips within a single chat thread in Claude. The concierge operates in a conversational style, maintaining context across searches, bookings, and cancellations while using ERC-7715 session keys to ensure that payment requests originate from the agent, but final signing authority remains isolated to the user's secure wallet environment.
