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OKX, MetaMask and Matter Labs Back an Internet Court for AI Agent Disputes
A consortium of crypto infrastructure firms has formed the Internet Court to arbitrate disputes between AI agents, raising the question of whether machine-to-machine commerce needs a human adjudication layer before it scales.
Memetoro's MT Token Shows x402 Stablecoin Payments Can Let AI Agents Earn Without Banks
Memetoro's AI agent autonomously earns USDT by performing tasks online and settling payments via the x402 standard, demonstrating that machine-to-machine commerce can function entirely outside traditional banking infrastructure.
Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines Needs Something It Doesn't Have: Agent Traffic
Mastercard built the credentialing and settlement infrastructure for machine-to-machine payments and launched it six weeks ago, but the platform still lacks evidence that AI agents are actually using it to transact at meaningful volume.
MoonPay Puts AI Transaction Agents Inside Telegram, Keeping Keys on Device
MoonPay's MoonAgents lets Telegram users delegate market analysis and transaction preparation to AI agents while retaining self-custody of private keys, surfacing the custody-versus-autonomy tradeoff that every consumer agent payments…
AI Agents on XRP Ledger Process 1M Payments — and They're Dumping RLUSD for Native XRP
Autonomous agents have crossed one million machine-initiated payments on the XRP Ledger, but on-chain data shows they prefer settling in native XRP over Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin by a widening margin.
BNB Chain's B402 Standard Gives AI Agents Native Payment Capabilities Via Binance Pay
BNB Chain's AI Agent Studio pairs autonomous agents with CoinMarketCap data feeds and a B402 payment protocol that routes machine-to-machine settlement through Binance Pay, creating another competing standard in an increasingly fragmented…
Cloudflare Opens x402 Waitlist as Competing Agent Payment Rails Take Shape
Cloudflare's waitlist launch signals x402 is moving from specification to deployed infrastructure, but AWS CloudFront and Aethir Claw are building parallel on-chain agent payment systems that may fragment the standard before it…
AI Agents Push Sui Past 6 Million TPS in Public Throughput Stress Test
Autonomous AI agents transacting across games, payments, and chat drove Sui to over 6 million transactions per second in a public stress test that exposed both the throughput ceiling of modern L1 chains and the latency profiles agents…
Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway Wants AI Agents to Pay Per HTTP Request
Cloudflare's new Monetization Gateway turns HTTP responses into priced units that AI agents must pay for, introducing per-request payment rails that bypass API keys and prepaid balances in favor of challenge-response settlement.
Visa Tests AI Agents That Complete Real Purchases Via Trusted Agent Protocol
Visa is running live European pilots where AI agents move beyond product search to execute actual transactions through its Trusted Agent Protocol, marking the card network's most concrete step into agentic commerce.
Injective's MCP Server: Natural Language Meets On-Chain Execution for AI Agents
Injective's open-source Model Context Protocol server lets AI agents translate conversational instructions into signed blockchain transactions, raising questions about intent parsing reliability and transaction safety.
Visa Lays Out Its Stablecoin and AI Commerce Play for Banks and Merchants
Visa is telling banks in its CEMEA region that AI-driven payments, tokenized deposits, and stablecoin settlement are converging into a single infrastructure upgrade, signaling how the incumbent network plans to mediate rather than…