Robots got bank accounts

Mastercard announced Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), Visa announced Agent Score.

Hey, it’s Marc

We’ve read every “AI agents will pay for things” press release for two years. They all promise. None ship.

Then June 10 happened. In one day, Mastercard, Visa, and Tether all shipped real infrastructure for machines to move money.

The interesting part: Mastercard put its agent credentials on Polygon, Solana, and Base. Public chains. Not a Ma…