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Mastercard announced Agent Pay, a product enabling AI agents to make direct payments to other agents at machine speed with settlement in seconds, prompting discussion on compelling use cases that require such speed.
An analysis of Coinbase and Google's differing approaches to AI agent micropayments, leading to the development of Bindu, an open-source framework that uses settle-first ordering to prevent free compute.
The article provides an in-depth analysis of Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), arguing that it is a significantly underestimated standard for facilitating payments among AI agents.