Person
Jorn Lambert
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In the archive
Opinion
The Agent Economy Needs a Bank
Mastercard, Stripe's Tempo, and Coinbase's x402 built rival payment rails for AI agents in 2026. The transaction counts already published point to one billion machine payments before 2027 closes.
Agent Infrastructure
Machines With Money: Agent Payments Arrive
Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, Google, and Coinbase built five competing rails for agent payments inside fifteen months, and their overlapping partner rosters reveal a single converging standard taking shape.
Capital & Markets
What Money Looks Like When Machines Run It
Tom Lee, Fundstrat's head of research and BitMine's chairman, argues autonomous agents will gravitate toward programmable settlement rails, and Logan Xie and Mark Zalan explain why card networks price machines out of that economy.
Web3 × AI
Agent-Native Money
Coinbase's x402 protocol, launched in May 2025, and Mastercard's June 2026 Agent Pay for Machines are converging on stablecoin rails built for autonomous agents, with Cloudflare, Stripe, and Circle racing to plug in.