Mastercard opens early access to AI agent payments following pilots with Coinbase, Base and Cloudflare

Mastercard opened early access to its Agent Pay for Machines product following pilot programs with Coinbase, Base, Cloudflare and other partners. The move signals growing integration between traditional payment rails and crypto infrastructure, with Base being Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2 network. Traders may read this as incremental validation of crypto payment use cases, though the direct price impact is likely modest given the early-stage nature of the rollout.