Concept
Agent Pay
An agent payment solution introduced by Mastercard that verifies agent identity based on Web Bot Auth and supports AI agents in securely initiating and completing payments on behalf of cardholders.
Timeline (last 90 days)
Oct 19
Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol and Mastercard's Agent Pay are both built on Web Bot Auth proposed by Cloudflare: agents sign each request with a public key registered in a directory and state their intent (browsing or payment), and merchants verify the signature before letting them through.
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