Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines is designed to let AI buy services and settle transactions using cards, bank accounts, and stablecoins.

Agent Pay for Machines is one of a slew of recent attempts from big companies to build payment networks optimized for AI.

Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines with Aave, Coinbase, OKX, Polygon, Ripple, and Solana among over 30 partners enabling AI agent payments.