MASTERCARD AGENTS NOW PAYING FOR DIGITAL SERVICES VIA COINBASE X402

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Mastercard's AI agents can now pay for digital services on-chain via Coinbase's x402 protocol and Cloudflare, making Mastercard one of the first major card networks to deploy HTTP-native agentic payment rails at scale. They released Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a pilot protocol that lets merchants get card-network settlement guarantees while settling onchain via Base and Coinbase's x402 facilitator.