Stripe and Visa shipped the Machine Payments Protocol on March 18. An open standard for AI agents to pay autonomously. 100+ services in the directory at launch.
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Browserbase: agents pay per headless browser session.
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PostalForm: agents pay to print and send physical mail.
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Dune Analytics: agents pay per query.
More and more infra for "agentic economy" is getting live...
This changes one assumption most payment systems make: a human is in the loop.
What breaks first when the human leaves the loop? MFA? :D