Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines brings stablecoins into AI agent payments, with Coinbase, Stripe, Polygon, Solana, Ripple and OKX among early supporters.
Mastercard will support regulated stablecoin settlement with USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD and SoFiUSD across major blockchain networks.
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson warned PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe over debanking as bitcoin slipped toward $65K and payment rails from stablecoin cards kept expanding.
MetaMask and Mastercard say the MetaMask Card is now generally available across the U.S., letting users spend self-custodied crypto via Apple Pay and Google Pay.