Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced one of the first end-to-end payment systems for AI agents, built in collaboration with Coinbase and Stripe. The new service, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, enables AI agents to make micropayments to pay for API usage, web content or to pay other agents.
There are now a few protocols for agentic payments including Google’s AP2, Tempo’s MPP and Coinbase’s x402, which is the only one supported by AgentCore payments at preview launch, although it plans to add more. In fact that’s one of the key points. AgentCore treats these protocols as relatively low level and developers don’t need to know how they work. Instead it provides a unified interface, whatever the protocol or wallet. At launch the two supported wallets are Coinbase’s and Stripe’s Privy, a crypto wallet the payments firm acquired last year.
“There will soon be more AI agents transacting than humans, and they need money that’s built for the internet – programmable, always on, and global,” said Brian Foster, Head of Infrastructure Growth and Strategy, Coinbase.
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