Ripple's XRPL AI Starter Kit adds x402 payments with XRP and RLUSD, testing whether agentic payments can move beyond USDC and Base.
Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines brings stablecoins into AI agent payments, with Coinbase, Stripe, Polygon, Solana, Ripple and OKX among early supporters.
Tether is leading NEURA Robotics' up-to-$1.4B Series C, putting USDT-era wallet tech into humanoid robots and physical AI.
AI agents and broader automation now account for roughly 19% of on-chain activity, but the live integrations show crypto's machine-money thesis is still mostly stablecoin-first.
World's new Agent Kit extends Coinbase's x402 flow so websites can check whether AI agents are backed by real humans, reviving privacy concerns around iris-linked onboarding.
Make money with Coinbase x402: turn a site or API into pay-per-use with USDC. How HTTP 402 works, implementation tips, and pricing ideas.
Coinbase x402 revives HTTP 402 so browsers and AI agents can pay sites with crypto. What it is, how the handshake works, and use cases.