Stripe's dropping agentic network tokens from Mastercard and Visa into its Shared Payment Tokens, plus Affirm and Klarna BNPL. It's a quiet power move that could standardize payments in the AI agent economy.
Everyone showed up to MRC Vegas 2026 expecting the same old fraud whining. What they got? A brutal reminder that scams are evolving faster than defenses, with Stripe grinning in the corner.
AI agents promised to run wild on the web. One glitch: they couldn't pay for squat. Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol aims to fix that, but who's really cashing in?
Coinbase's x402 just joined the Linux Foundation with heavy hitters like Google and Stripe cheering it on. But is this AI payments revolution real, or recycled blockchain buzz?