Ripple released the XRPL AI Starter Kit on Wednesday, giving developers tools to build AI-agent payment applications on the XRP Ledger using XRP and RLUSD. The launch lands alongside Mastercard naming Ripple as a partner in Agent Pay for Machines.

A growing number of companies, including Ripple, want to create payment rails which would AI agents to execute transactions with limited human involvement.

Ripple deploys the x402 facilitator on XRPL, enabling AI agents to execute payments in XRP or RLUSD without API keys, accounts, or human involvement.