An inference marketplace is planned for December, with the product-development budget coming from MEGA's existing treasury, according to co-founder Shuyao Kong.

The global offering requires eligible non-US accounts and derivatives onboarding; trade approvals depend on the connected AI app.

Researchers gave frontier models a capped Circle agent wallet and access to the inbox that receives its one-time codes. Most of them approved their own spending increase

AP2 records spending authority, while x402 carries payment requests. Mastercard’s machine-payment pilot shows why a signed voucher and final settlement are different steps.

Order execution would be off by default, with AI agents restricted to a dedicated trading account that users choose to fund.

Trade approvals will default to on, while a planned Loops feature will let users run recurring strategies around the clock.

The asset manager points to tiny, round-the-clock payments for data and computing power, while traditional checkout systems retain a role.

Circle introduced Agent Marketplace as part of its Agent Stack, enabling autonomous agents to discover and pay for trusted services through programmable, usage-based economic models.

Bedrock AgentCore Payments turns Amazon's agent platform into a transactional layer, with Coinbase supplying x402 stablecoin rails and Stripe contributing wallet infrastructure via Privy.

The stablecoin issuer's new payment rail enables USDC transfers as small as $0.000001, targeting AI agents that pay per API call, per second, or per dataset read.