Agent Payments

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Payment and transaction infrastructure designed for software agents that can discover, buy, and pay autonomously.

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Introduction

Agent payments describes the emerging need for agents to transact with services and merchants under explicit limits and identity. It is a foundational problem for an economy where software agents become customers as well as tools.

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TypeTrend
Sourcedevelopers.cloudflare.com
Published date2026/10/08

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