Mastercard Opens Card Rails to AI Agents With 30-Plus Crypto Partners - "The Defiant"

Mastercard launches Agent Pay for Machines with Aave, Coinbase, OKX, Polygon, Ripple, and Solana as partners

Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines on June 10 with Aave, Coinbase, OKX, Polygon, and Solana to enable autonomous AI payments. Machine-to-machine micropayments unlock new DeFi demand but face regulatory gaps and fragmentation risks from competing protocols.