Google has launched its open-source AI Payments Protocol (AP2). The system supports both credit cards and stablecoins, designed in collaboration with Coinbase, the Ethereum Foundation, and more than 60 partners. The goal is simple: enable AI agents to pay each other. For years, agent-to-agent interactions stopped at planning and information exchange. Google’s new framework changes that. With AP2, agents can transact instantly, and do so onchain. Announcing Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open, shared protocol that provides a common language for secure, compliant transactions between agents and merchants. AP2 can be used as an extension of the A2A protocol and
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