Future Frontier Brief · AI Agents · Agent Payments
AI-Agent Payments: How Mastercard, AP2 and x402 Separate Authorization From Settlement
AP2 records agent spending authority while x402 carries payment requests; Mastercard’s machine-payment pilot separates signed authorization from final settlement.
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The Defiant
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