Mastercard just made its biggest move yet into the AI economy. The payments giant has officially launched Agent Pay for Machines, a new payments infrastructure designed specifically for AI agents executing transactions at machine speed and Ripple is right in the middle of it, with the XRP Ledger and RLUSD helping lay the foundation for what comes next. The announcement landed with serious weight. Mastercard is launching this initiative with more than 30 partners on board from day one, including Coinbase, Stripe, and OKX alongside Ripple. That is not a pilot program with a handful of friendly participants, that is
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