Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) Wednesday, extending its payments network to autonomous AI agents with 30-plus crypto and fintech launch partners including Coinbase, RippleX, Solana Foundation, Polygon, Aave Labs and Stellar.

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.