{"id":108068,"date":"2026-07-16T11:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/108068\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:46:13","slug":"visa-stripe-and-google-join-massive-open-source-project-to-let-ai-agents-pay-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/108068\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa, Stripe and Google join massive open-source project to let AI agents pay each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stakes are high because AI agents, which will likely account for a large portion of internet commerce, some of it in the form of tiny micropayments, could completely reshape the web. \u201cIt may seem nerdy to care about standards so much, but we have the opportunity to create this truly open public global financial system that everyone can have access to,\u201d Dixon added.<\/p>\n<p>Other premier members of the x402 Foundation include Ripple, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, Adyen, Fiserv, Shopify, Google, Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare, alongside Circle, MoonPay and the Solana Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Coinbase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinbase.com\/en-gb\/developer-platform\/discover\/launches\/x402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">initially shepherded the x402 payment protocol<\/a>, which takes its name from the \u201c402 payment required\u201d response code built by early World Wide Web architects to allow browsers to pay for content.<\/p>\n<p>However, card payments and the associated fees made micropayments unworkable, and business models on the internet evolved through advertising and subscriptions, leaving the 402 gateway unused.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing x402 under the auspices of the Linux Foundation is exactly the right &#8220;open-source playground\u201d required for a collaborative open standard to be built, according to Alin Dragos, senior manager at AWS Payments, who has taken the role of board chairperson to the x402 Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, Dragos said, is to complement the original design of HTTP, the foundational set of rules that allows web browsers and servers to communicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The stakes are high because AI agents, which will likely account for a large portion of internet commerce,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24,25,568,132,1429,675,8006],"class_list":["post-108068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-google","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-coinbase","tag-google","tag-google-ai","tag-mastercard","tag-stripe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}