Mastercard
The card network that launched Agent Pay for Machines on 10 June, with Coinbase, Cloudflare, Stripe and Tempo among 30-plus partners.
Checked 11 October
Our view
A Premier member of the x402 Foundation with no first-party x402 product; among its launch partners only Coinbase’s quote mentioned x402, and in March 2026 it agreed to buy BVNK, a stablecoin payments firm, for up to $1.8B. Watch whether its agent credentials become the default for business agents, which could route around any single x402 chain. The research did not score rivals; these labels are the site’s reading of the dated evidence.
Facts
- Role
- Card network; x402 Foundation Premier member
- How serious
- Serious builder
- Momentum
- Steady
- Trend-hopping
- Not scored
- Funding
- Public company; not researched
- On Base
- Not on Base
- How often we check
- Every month
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People
Michael Miebach
CEO
Jorn Lambert
Chief product officer
Links
- Websitemastercard.com
- The full research profileCompetition digest: card networks