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.

The open-source standard, developed by The Open Platform, lets AI agents manage dedicated on-chain wallets without requiring user sign-off on every transaction

MetaMask now supports the ERC-7715 standard, allowing agents and dApps to request execution permissions on OP Mainnet.

Visa's Intelligent Commerce platform lets AI agents shop, compare, and transact on behalf of consumers, and the company says the majority of business leaders are ready for it.

On-chain AI agents are increasingly capable of reasoning through complex DeFi strategies, but ERC-8211's devs say a shared on-chain execution layer was lacking.

The open standard for embedding payments into HTTP interactions aims to become the settlement layer for AI agent commerce, with over 20 founding members spanning tech, payments and crypto.

The Trump-backed DeFi project's new AgentPay SDK gives AI agents self-custodial wallets and policy-enforced spending on EVM chains.

Visa Crypto Labs has launched an experimental product that lets AI agents make payments directly from the command line, without API keys or pre-funded accounts.