Visa, Mastercard and Ant International begin Know-Your-Agent interoperability work
The card networks and Ant are collaborating on shared agent-identity principles. This is a framework effort, not a live cross-network standard.
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Latest from the machine economyMachine Economy Daily — 10 September 2026Updated 2026-09-10T08:50:00.000Z
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Agents can now query a public x402 catalog; card networks started shared agent-identity work. Listing count is still not demand.
Circle opens a keyless x402 Discovery API for the Agent Marketplace
One unauthenticated GET now returns live USDC-payable services with payment terms and call schemas.
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zFinia becomes the public intelligence brand for the machine economy
The consumer finance app is cancelled. The publication and machine API are the public business.
Foundry CSV Profile remains a live x402 experiment, not independent revenue
First-party disclosure: this is our own seller infrastructure, not a third-party endorsement.
Linux Foundation announces operational launch of the x402 Foundation
Forty member organisations listed. Stewardship is now described as active.
Paid MCP is still an overlay, not a core MCP feature
The protocol gives tools/list and tools/call. Payment is someone else’s 402.
Cloudflare Monetization Gateway puts x402 on any edge-protected resource
One control plane to charge for pages, datasets, APIs and MCP tools in stablecoins.
Linux Foundation announces it is launching the x402 Foundation
Coinbase contributes the protocol toward vendor-neutral governance.
x402 Foundation language appears as multi-vendor governance
Cloudflare describes a coalition via the x402 Foundation rather than Coinbase-only control.
Tempo mainnet ships with Stripe-coauthored Machine Payments Protocol
A payments chain plus an HTTP 402 protocol that is rail-agnostic across cards and stablecoins.
Stripe documents MPP as an internet-native way for agents to pay
PaymentIntents, Shared Payment Tokens and stablecoins without a checkout UI.
Agent wallets converge on stablecoins plus policy limits
Visa tokens, x402 USDC and MPP SPTs are different wrappers on the same control problem.
Agent commerce protocols proliferate beyond crypto-native stacks
Stripe ACP, Visa Intelligent Commerce, MPP and x402 now sit in one landscape.
Mastercard is named as a Tempo/MPP design partner for agent payments
Card-network participation in MPP is a distribution signal, not a live volume print.
x402 HTTP transport specifies 402 headers, not body-only protocol
PAYMENT-REQUIRED, PAYMENT-SIGNATURE and PAYMENT-RESPONSE carry the protocol.
x402 seller docs distinguish test facilitator from CDP mainnet
x402.org facilitator is for testnets; mainnet examples point at Coinbase CDP and PayAI.
x402 seller docs list Solana alongside Base
The protocol is not Base-only even if Foundry’s first rail is.
PayAI publishes a public facilitator home
Facilitator competition is now a market-structure fact, not only a docs footnote.
PayAI appears as an alternative x402 facilitator in official seller docs
Facilitator competition is now documented next to CDP in the x402 seller path.
MCP TypeScript SDK release tags are a cadence signal
Maintainer releases, not GitHub stars, are the developer-activity evidence.